Some days you wouldn’t wish this sports writing job on anyone. The headaches. The condescension. The constant riding the elevator down with good men at the low point of their careers in the manner it’s been with the Miami Dolphins for so much of the past two decades.

And then there are the other moments, the special moments, the ones like Monday after the final unbeaten teams of this NFL season were beaten and a simple a call to Larry Little to talk about his undefeated 1972 Dolphins involves a conversation through time that surprises you. Stretches you.

That perfect season takes on new dimensions when Little talks about growing up a fat kid in Miami who sat in the Orange Bowl’s segregated bleachers watching games, who bought the tasty hot dogs at McCrory’s store but couldn’t legally eat

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