Episodes

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep When the Miami Dolphins traded into the second round of the 1998 draft to select Patrick Surtain out of Southern Mississippi, they landed a player who, along with Sam Madison, would form the most formidable cornerback duo in team history. Surtain would go on to play seven seasons in Miami, the last three of which concluded with a trip to the Pro Bowl. Pat hauled in 29 of his 37 career interceptions with the Dolphins, taking two back for touchdowns. He was also...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep Harvey Greene is a sports public relations legend having worked with the likes of George Steinbrenner, Don Shula, and World B. Free. Dolphins’ fans know Harvey best, of course, for his nearly 30 years of service as the team’s VP of Media Relations, where he not only worked with Shula, but Dan Marino, Jimmy Johnson, and hundreds of other Dolphins greats during his tenure. In the tank, Harvey gives a behind the scenes look at his dealings with the most iconic na...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep Tony Nathan broke racial barriers at Woodlawn High School in Birmingham, Alabama before helping legendary coach Bear Bryant and the Crimson Tide capture a National Championship in 1978. The following year, he was a third-round draft choice of the Miami Dolphins and made an immediate impact, garnering First Team All-Pro honors as a rookie kick returner. Nathan played nine seasons for the Dolphins, starting at running back in Super Bowls XVII and XIX, however he...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep Mark Duper was selected by the Miami Dolphins in the second round of the 1982 NFL Draft. A year later, he was joined by Dan Marino and Mark Clayton, and the trio never looked back, lighting up the Dolphins record books for the next decade. Duper played 11 seasons for the Dolphins and was selected to the Pro Bowl on three occasions while also garnering two All-Pro nods. In The Tank, Duper discusses his friendship with Clayton, his propensity for challenging Mar...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep Mark Clayton landed in Miami as an unheralded eighth-round draft choice in 1983, a member of the same draft class as Dan Marino. Following a quiet rookie season, Clayton joined Marino in re-writing NFL record books, hauling in 18 of Marino’s 48 touchdown passes to set a new single-season league record. Clayton paired with Mark Duper to form the popular “Marks Brothers” and became the most prolific wide receiver in team history, as well as one of the most domin...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep Adewale Ogunleye signed with the Miami Dolphins as an undrafted rookie free agent defensive end in 2000 after a severe knee injury derailed a promising college career at Indiana. Once healthy, Ogunleye proved he was an absolute steal, starting opposite Jason Taylor and registering 9.5 sacks in 2002 and an AFC leading 15 sacks in 2003. Following a trip to the Pro Bowl, Ogunleye was traded to the Chicago Bears prior to the 2004 season and helped lead the Bears t...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep The 1984 Heisman Trophy runner-up as a tailback for Ohio Sate, Keith Byars was selected in the first round of the 1986 NFL draft by the Philadelphia Eagles. Byars was a key contributor on the Eagles offense for seven seasons before joining the Miami Dolphins as a free agent in 1993. In three-plus seasons with Miami, Byars was both productive and popular, perhaps making his memorable play with a 77-yard touchdown scamper in the snow against the Dallas Cowboys o...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep A high school quarterback in Jonesboro, Louisiana, Marty Booker made the switch to wide receiver at the University of Louisiana-Monroe. The move paid off as Booker was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the third round of the 1999 NFL Draft. Five seasons and one Pro Bowl appearance later, he (along with the Bears third round draft choice) was traded to Miami in exchange for defensive end Adewale Ogunleye. In The Tank, Marty discusses playing for the Dolphins duri...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep This Halloween, The Fish Tank dressed up as the Five Reasons Sports flagship show. Taking a break from The Fish Tank Studios, OJ and Seth talk current Miami Dolphins with Five Reasons founder, Ethan Skolnick, as well as Sun-Sentinel beat writer, Omar Kelly. Ethan and Omar did share their own “tales from the deep” as Ethan fondly remembers his appearance on The Nick Saban Show, while Omar remembers his first day ever covering a Dolphins practice. The episode wa...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep Now at the midway point of the NFL season, OJ and Seth decided to highlight some of their favorite moments in Fish Tank history. Listen as Zach Thomas recalls a bet turned near death experience, Mike and Maurkice Pouncey prove that nothing is impossible for their former Gators quarterback, Tim Tebow, Oronde Gadsden gets questionable scheduling information from Lamar Thomas, former Security Director encounters a Larry Izzo imposter at the team hotel and Channin...

Nicknamed “The Hawk,” Andre Dawson’s 21-year baseball career was the thing of legends. An 8-time National League MVP and 8-time Gold Glove winner, Dawson was named the league’s Rookie of the Year in 1977. A decade later, he earned the Most Valuable Player Award after leading the league with 49 homeruns and 137 RBI in 1987. Dawson, who played for the Montreal Expos, Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox and Florida Marlins, was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010. In The Fish Tank, Andre sets ...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep Following a standout career at Notre Dame where he helped lead the Fighting Irish to victory over Florida State in “The Game of the Century,” Shawn Wooden was selected in the sixth round of the 1996 NFL Draft by Jimmy Johnson in his first season with the Miami Dolphins. In Miami, Wooden made the move from cornerback to safety and would go on to play nine seasons, eight of them with the Dolphins. Diving into The Tank, Wooden explains why OJ couldn’t convince hi...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep Louis Oliver enjoyed an All-American career as a safety at the University of Florida, while also earning two-time SEC Academic Honor Roll honors. The Dolphins selected Oliver in the first round of the 1989 NFL Draft, reuniting him in the defensive backfield with his former Gator teammate, Jarvis Williams. Oliver went on to play seven of his eight professional seasons in Miami, registering 27 interceptions including two he returned for touchdowns. In the Fish T...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep Joe Rose was a seventh-round draft choice by the Miami Dolphins in 1980 out of the University of California, Berkeley. Joe logged seven NFL seasons as a tight end, making his most memorable play in 1983 as he hauled in Dan Marino’s first touchdown pass, but it has been in his post playing career as a radio and television broadcaster where Joe has truly made his mark. Taking a break from his morning drive sports talk radio show on 560 WQAM to dive into The Tank...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep John Bock attended the University of Louisville, playing collegiately under legendary Head Coach Howard Schnellenberger. After a one-year stint with the New York Jets in 1995, Bock landed in Miami in 96, where he would remain for the final five years of his career. Bock’s versatility made him a valuable player along the Dolphins offensive line, but it was his hard-nosed approach that he was best remembered Bock literally fought and clawed his way through each ...

Mark Dixon took the long road to the NFL after an All-American career at Virginia was derailed by injuries. Dixon went undrafted and had stops in Philadelphia, the World League and the CFL before Jimmy Johnson pulled off another personnel magic trick and brought him to Miami in 1998. Dixon instantly became a stalwart on the Dolphins’ offensive line, starting 60 of the 62 games he played in from 1998 – 2003. Mark dives into The Tank with OJ and Seth for his first Dolphins related interview in mor...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep David Bowens saw a promising career at the University of Michigan, where he was a two-sport star who set the Wolverines single-season mark for sacks as a sophomore, derailed due to behavioral issues. Despite transferring to Western Illinois and playing just one season there, Bowens was selected in the fifth round of the 1999 NFL Draft by the Denver Broncos. Three years and four teams later, Bowens found a home in Miami and spent half of his professional career...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep After an 11-year, successful stint as a private investigator for NFL Security, Stu Weinstein became one of the pioneers for his position as Don Shula made him the Dolphins full-time Director of Security. Stu served 34 years in his post before retiring prior to this season, and during that time, protected the interests of Shula, Dan Marino, Jimmy Johnson and every other player and coach who donned the aqua and orange. You don’t spend nearly four decades handlin...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep Following a standout career at the University of Florida, Nat Moore returned to his hometown of Miami as a third-round draft choice of the Dolphins. Moore bridged the gap between two of the team’s most prolific eras, hauling in 74 touchdown passes along the way, the majority of which were thrown by a pair of Hall of Fame quarterbacks in Bob Griese and Dan Marino. Joining O.J. and Seth in The Tank, Nat talks learning the ropes from another Hall of Famer in Paul...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep Daryl Gardener was Jimmy Johnson’s first-round draft choice in 1996, Johnson’s first year as the Miami Dolphins head coach. A giant amongst giants, Gardener stood 6 feet 6 inches tall and weighed more than 300 pounds, and quickly joined Tim Bowens in the middle of the Dolphins defensive line creating a two-man wrecking crew. On a hot August day in 2001, however, Gardener’s size and strength weren’t enough to prevent O.J. from taking issue with the defensive ta...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep A standout high school football and basketball star, Terry Kirby played both sports at the University of Virginia, finishing his career as the school’s all-time leader in rushing yards. Kirby joined The Fish Tank’s own OJ McDuffie as a member of the Miami Dolphins 1993 draft class when the team utilized their second pick, a third-round choice, on the star running back. After proving to Don Shula that he wasn’t “a blind guy” Terry and OJ were teammates and room...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep He never scored a touchdown, made a tackle or caught a pass for the Miami Dolphins, but Tony Egues spent 20 years with the franchise and has the stories to back it up. Tony worked his way from a volunteer cleaning up the locker room to the Dolphins’ Head Equipment Manager, outfitting and keeping safe everyone from Don Shula to Dan Marino to Jason Taylor. Joining OJ and Seth in The Tank, Tony shares how he got his big break, recants epic tongue lashings from Co...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep A unanimous All-American at Texas Tech University, Zach Thomas broke into the NFL as a member of Jimmy Johnson’s first draft class as head coach of the Miami Dolphins in 1996. It didn’t take long for Thomas to turn his fifth-round position into one of the biggest draft-day steals in Dolphins history. Zach became the team’s starting middle linebacker almost immediately and never looked back, amassing the sixth most tackles in the history of the NFL, seven Pro B...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep Brothers Mike and Maurkice Pouncey don't just look exactly alike. At 6-5 and 300 pounds, these identical twins have been similarly dominant on the gridiron. After showcasing their All-American talent at the University of Florida while helping the Gators capture a National Championship in 2009, they each took first-round trips to the NFL, Maurkice to Pittsburgh in 2010 and of course, Mike to Miami in 2011. A combined nine trips to the Pro Bowl have solidified T...