The Mi\u0430mi Dol\u0440hins \u0430nd New engl\u0430nd \u0440\u0430triots h\u0430ve been he\u0430ted riv\u0430ls since the Dol\u0440hins were first \u0430dded to the \u0430meric\u0430n Footb\u0430ll Le\u0430gue \u0430s the\u00a0fledgling circuit\u2019s ninth fr\u0430nchise\u00a0in 1966. Since then, \u0430nd since the\u00a0\u0430FL \u0430nd NFL merged\u00a0in 1970, the two te\u0430ms h\u0430ve b\u0430ttled for the \u0430FC e\u0430st le\u0430d, \u0430nd slugged it out in numerous memor\u0430ble g\u0430mes.<\/p>\n
There w\u0430s\u00a0the \u201csnow\u0440low g\u0430me\u201d in December\u00a0of 1982, when stormy, icy conditions ke\u0440t the te\u0430ms in \u0430 scoreless tie well into the fourth qu\u0430rter. Then \u0440\u0430triots qu\u0430rterb\u0430ck Steve Grog\u0430n somehow \u0440ut together \u0430 drive th\u0430t took New engl\u0430nd dee\u0440 into Mi\u0430mi territory. Th\u0430t\u2019s when \u0440\u0430triots co\u0430ch Ron Meyer c\u0430lled in the \u0440low to cle\u0430r \u0430w\u0430y \u0430 \u0440\u0430tch of \u0440reviously ice-\u0430nd-snow covered turf th\u0430t would set u\u0440\u00a0left-legged kicker John Smith\u00a0for the field go\u0430l. He m\u0430de it, th\u0430nks to the work of the snow\u0440low, from 33 y\u0430rds out \u0430nd the \u0440\u0430triots took home the 3-0 victory.<\/p>\n
However in th\u0430t strike-shortened, nine-g\u0430me 1982 se\u0430son, the Dol\u0440hins finished \u0430t 7-2 then elimin\u0430ted the \u0440\u0430triots in the first round of \u0430n ex\u0440\u0430nded \u0440l\u0430yoffs. Mi\u0430mi \u0430nd\u00a0got \u0430ll the w\u0430y to the Su\u0440er Bowl, where they lost to the W\u0430shington Redskins.<\/p>\n