Miami Dolphins

Miami Dolphins is an American YouTube channel and a NFL football team located in Miami, Florida.
==History==
The first professional American football team to be based in Miami and the state of Florida was the Miami Seahawks. The Seahawks entered the All-America Football Conference during its inaugural 1946 season, as the first major league-level sports franchise ever in Miami. However, the team lasted only one year before being confiscated by the league. https://books.google.com/books?id=DHBujbvNV1AC 
Miami had been a target for the American Football League from its earliest stages. https://web.archive.org/web/20121026074333/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1134343/index.htm Ralph Wilson had hoped to establish his franchise in Miami when he acquired his stake in 1959, but he was unable to secure a lease to a suitable stadium to host professional football games. As was the case in 1946, the only stadium large enough was the Orange Bowl but municipal officials were unwilling to risk a repeat of the AAFC fiasco and told Wilson only college teams would be permitted to play there. This led Wilson to abandon Miami and instead establish the Buffalo Bills in Buffalo, New York. https://www.buffalorumblings.com/2011/6/17/2225530/ralph-wilson-buffalo-bills-miami-afl 
The fledgling AFL maintained its interest in Miami however, and in 1962 staged a preseason exhibition game between the Houston Oilers and the Dallas Texans. By 1965, the AFL was clearly a much more sustainable venture than the previous AAFC and as such local government resistance to a professional team playing at the Orange Bowl had subsided. The AFL awarded an expansion team to lawyer Joe Robbie and Danny Thomas. They agreed to pay the AFL $7.5 million for their franchise. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XEMrAAAAIBAJ&pg=2822,3612744&dq=dixie+football-league&hl=en 
Robbie had originally wanted to establish the new franchise in Philadelphia, but encountered resistance from the other AFL owners since Philadelphia was already home to the Philadelphia Eagles. Robbie later agreed to establish a new franchise in Miami due to its warm climate, growing population, and lack of a football team. Robbie was soon able to secure a lease for the Orange Bowl, and Thomas would eventually sell his stake in the team to Robbie. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1083160/2/index.htm A contest was held in 1965 to choose the name of the team, which elicited 19,843 entries and over a thousand different names. The winning name, "Dolphins", was submitted by 622 entrants. During the summer of 1966, the Dolphins' training camp was in St. Pete Beach with practices in August at Boca Ciega High School in Gulfport. https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/sports/2016/07/29/here-s-fun-look-back/6915124007/ 
==Channel==
The Miami Dolphins channel was created on September 9, 2015. Their first video was uploaded on January 2, 2017, titled "The Audible presented by Aquafina."
==References==
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