2025 NFL Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Week 16

I wasn't going to watch the Dolphins game because without a chance of the playoffs, I don't really care too much. But on Saturday the kids found some old Dolphins jerseys in my closet and put them on and asked when they could watch the Dolphins. sigh It was cute and it warmed my bitter, frostbitten Dolphins heart. Two little 6 year olds wearing their father's oversized Dan Marino jerseys? I couldn't not watch football on Sunday. Also one of my favorite pictures of them as babies is from Week 1 of the 2019 season. They were still babies and we had cute little Dolphins onesies we put them in and I sat on the couch in my Ricky Williams jersey ready to watch the game. I held them both, one in each arm and they started crying, so I pretended to cry too while my wife took a picture. The Dolphins went on to lose 43-0 to the Patrtiots. That, my friends, is what being a Miami Dolphins fan is all about. Multi-generational disappointment.

So my son and I (my daughter was busy drawing) started watching the game together. He's too young to really enjoy watching football for longer than 10 minutes at a time, so he'd leave the room, go play with his sister, then come back and cheer them on with me. All the while I was stuck watching a team I swore off earlier in the season play a game I didn't care about.

But eventually I had to go do a chore around the house and stopped watching the game. When I left it was 17-14. And given the opponent, I just kind of assumed a narrow victory was guaranteed. Later on in the day I checked the score...and wow. 45-21. I don't really know what happened after I stopped watching and I'm not sure I want to find out.

I broke the news to them and they were super disappointed. My daughter then asked about the Commanders, remarking that "they always win". :| Girl, no they do not. I don't know if I want to ruin their Christmas by letting them watch the Commanders/Cowboys play.