Perfection: The Inside Story of the 1972 Miami Dolphins' Perfect Season Book

Prologue 1

1 Are We Really That Good? 7

2 Three Men and the Backfield 15

3 The Education of a Quarterback 27

4 The Color of Miami 45

5 My Sunday Nightmare 63

6 Pain and Other Inconveniences 79

7 The Architect 97

8 The Names behind the No-Name Defense 115

9 The Man Who Fired Flipper—and Built a Dynasty 127

10 Too Small, Too Short, Too Much 145

11 Howard and Us 157

12 Shula: A Study in Character 163

13 A Partnership of Opposites 173

14 The Mushrooms 189

15 The Next Season 209

16 Sweet Returns 215

17 Perfection 223

Index 253