Woe Is Miami

Patrick Dorsey, presumably no relation to Ken, penned an excellent ESPN Page 2 column on Monday which detailed the sheer hell that comes with being a Miami sports fan. But Patrick didn’t quite go far enough when he said that Miami is on its way to becoming America’s Most Miserable Sports City. How short your memory must be. They’re already there, brother. Perhaps a refresher course is in order to remind everyone how being a sports fan in South FLA is far worse than anywhere else in America. It’s been going on for years now. Who could forget the early ’90s when Dan Marino and the Dolphins went to four straight Super Bowls and lost? Miami fans came close to joy in the first of those games, Super Bowl XXV, but Pete Stoyanovich’s attempt at a game-winning field goal notoriously sailed wide right. The three losses in the Super Bowls that followed were just icing on the awful cake. The pain didn’t stop with football. After arriving in South Florid...