Welcome all to the Greg Cody show with Greg Cody. This is our 11th episode and it will be much

different than all of the others we've done. It will be a full hour long and it will be devoted to

a single subject to one man. The NFL, the Miami Dolphins, the City of Miami, all of South Florida

and a multitude of fans who held him dear lost a great man last week when Donald Francis Shula

passed away peacefully at home at age 90. This is going to be a tribute to Shula and unabashed

audio love letter. We'll have a few smiles and laughs along the way but also not be afraid to show

emotion. This is for Dolphins fans of a certain age who lived the glory days and grew up with the

great coach as a timeline of their lives. I did. I was a pimply faced 15-year-old kid when Shula

arrived in Miami and a married father of two when he retired. Along the way, growing up,

the love for the Dolphins, my father and I shared brought us closer together. But just as much,

I want this to be a tribute aimed at younger fans to whom Donald Shula is just some distant name

not relevant to them. Boys and girls, there was a time in America and in football before ESPN

Sports Center and before Twitter and Instagram. There was a time in Miami before the heat and the

marlins and the panthers before Cain's football got good before Dan Marino arrived. In this time,

long, long ago, hard as it is to believe, the Miami Dolphins reigned. They were the best

back-to-back champions, a five-year run like none other with the only perfect season still,

still in the 101-year history of the game. Don Shula did all of that. He made Miami matter nationally

and we shall honor that today. We're going to share a conversation with his eldest son, Dave Shula,

who will tell you about the man as much as the coach and share intimate details of his dead

near the very end. We'll speak with two of Shula's greatest championship era players,

Hall of Famers Larry Zonka and Larry Little. We'll speak about Shula with Miami-raised ESPN

star Dan Lepetard. We'll hear from Hall of Fam quarterbacks Bob Greasy and Dan Marino as well

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