The Dolphins are going to the playoffs. Are you?
Tickets for the Dolphins’ first playoff game since the 2001 season go on sale at 9 a.m. Monday. Will you be buying them?
The last two times the Dolphins hosted first-round playoff games (in the 2001 season against next Sunday’s opponent, the Baltimore Ravens, and in the 2000 season against the Indianapolis Colts), the games didn’t sell out in time to lift the local television blackout. The match-ups sold out on game day, but those who didn’t purchase tickets had to listen to the radio broadcast or drive far enough outside the 75-mile radius around Dolphin Stadium to find the game on TV.
According to the NFL's blackout policy, games must sell out 72 hours in advance or they can't be aired on stations with signals that penetrate within 75 miles of the game. Federal copyright laws prohibit local sports bars with satellite dishes from showing the game.
Times are vastly different now. It’s been a long time since the Dolphins were in the playoffs and they’ve also made history by winning 11 games – and their division -- after winning just one game last season (against the Ravens, by the way).
Is the playoff drought and the team’s remarkable turnaround enough to convince you to buy tickets? Or is the economy just too tough to make the investment? Or are there other reasons you’re planning to skip this one?
Playoff ticket prices have been rolled back. They start at $46 for next Sunday's game. Tickets to the playoffs in the 2001 season started at $57.
The team must sell 62,133 general seats in the upper and lower decks (excluding suites and club seats) at 75,540-seat Dolphin Stadium to avoid a blackout. Back in 2001, season ticket holders bought nearly 58,000 tickets during the season. This year, the team hasn’t officially released the number of season tickets sold, but it is fewer than 50,000.
The Dolphins host the Ravens at 1 p.m. Sunday. Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. Monday at Gate F at Dolphin Stadium, online at miamidolphins.com or through Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000.
Fans who attend the game will receive a rally towel. And just in case you were wondering, there’s already AFC East Championship gear available for sale at the Dolphins Pro Shop.


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Gigi,
I'm indeed a Dolphin fan. However, your constant blabbing and dribble make me want to hurl lunches I ate 15 years ago.
Your husband probably wore an apron in the kitchen on Christmas Day. I hope atleast after dinner you were kind enough to take him a slice of pumpkin pie in your size 38 housedress.
Enjoy the game, and save some nachos for the rest of us.
Posted by: Sal | December 29, 2008 10:34 PM
Hey Sal: You're an obvious Jets or Patsy fan/loser. By the way, I don't take orders from anyone except my husband so go get your own sandwich. Typical Boston/NY fan....you can dish it out when the Dolphins were down, and now that we won the division you can't take it. Go get some "chowder" or a piece of N.Y. cheesecake and stick it! GO FINS!!!
Posted by: Gigi | December 29, 2008 4:37 PM
I have a few things to say... To all the haters and bandwagoners out there... NOW what do you have to say... Jump on for a while, but I've been a true fan since the Shula days... MIAMI WIN or LOSE I love the DOLPHINS...
Posted by: D-Man | December 29, 2008 4:20 PM
ANYONE REMEMBER US?!
Posted by: Jason and Zack | December 29, 2008 4:08 PM
Hey Gigi ya big mouth, go make some sandwiches already...and shut yer pie-hole.
Posted by: Sal | December 29, 2008 4:03 PM
If you are a season ticket holder and bought your seats, you can add a club seat cheap.
I bought our two lower level seats for $83 ea and 3 club seats, row 1 above our regular seats for $103 ea.
No, I am not crazy. I just had to front the money for a few friends. I will be paid back for all but two seats by Sunday!!
Posted by: jeff | December 29, 2008 3:46 PM
By the way - Patriots fans are the WORST. At the game in November all they could do is trash talk the Fins, make fun of the wild cat, Chad's arm, etc. Well the Pats had a good season but we spanked them up in N.E. and we played them tough down here. The sorry Jets beat the Pats, in N.E. and that game cost them the division. The Dolphins rock!
Posted by: Gigi | December 29, 2008 3:42 PM
Oh for you sarcastic haters: Remember how many people are out of work - there's a RECESSION and it's not so easy to spend a couple hundred bucks for a game when you need to pay your mortgage/rent and feed your kids. I told my husband not to get me anything for Christmas - all I wanted was for the Dolphins to beat the Jets. Best gift I ever received watching the Jets and Patriots get kicked out at the same time!
Posted by: Gigi | December 29, 2008 3:37 PM
Hey "The dolphins SUCK" -- You're an obvious Patsy or Jets fan....have fun NOT watching your sorry ass teams go forward in the playoffs!!
From article in Miami Herald:
Sold out. Thousands of Miami Dolphins fans flocked to the Internet and Dolphin Stadium Monday morning and snapped up some 25,000 remaining tickets to the team's playoff game Sunday, when they host the Baltimore Ravens.
Posted by: Gigi | December 29, 2008 3:33 PM
Wow, what a suprise, all the miaimi dolphin Fair-Weather Fans want to go to a playoff game...
Where were ya all season, while the stands were empty...
Posted by: The dolphins SUCK | December 29, 2008 3:31 PM
Game is sold out!! Only some club seats left....this is awesome!
Posted by: Gigi | December 29, 2008 3:28 PM
Lifelong Dolphins fan, been going to games since 1970. For all you haters out there (Patriots-Jets-Chicago-Buffalo) don't hate on us! Last year we were terrible. We've had no excitement since Marino left and now we have a stud at QB. Not to mention the rest of this "team" brings back memories of our glory days. All you Jets fans who hated Chad Pennington and treated him like dirt -- he's ours now! LET'S GO DOLPHINS!!
Posted by: Gigi | December 29, 2008 3:25 PM
you're daaang right I got tickets!!!
GO FINS!
YES WE CAN!
YES WE CAN!
YES WE CAN!
Posted by: Jen | December 29, 2008 3:18 PM
They started out a likable, however hapless bunch of vagabonds. And so ineffective were they on the gridiron, that they became the mule end of our lighthearted jest. It would seem at times they would have preferred to be left alone in their skylarking's, allowed to lollygag away the game on the fifty yard line pulling dandy lions and reciting poetry. However at some point there was a change. At first taken with a grain of salt and careful optimism, because we have seen it before. But it started to take on a different feel this time. They seemed to be more machine like, bigger, faster, cleaner; and when they hit it made a crisp, cracking noise as it should. It even seemed as if the fog was lifted, and there was clarity on the field every time our linemen hit the opposing teams line and pushed them back, or we made a crisp hard tackle. Before long many of us, including yours truly became a believer again..I SAY, GO DOLPHINS! GO ALL THE WAY!!!
Posted by: dave | December 29, 2008 2:49 PM
I have had season tix since last year. I purchased the playoff tix online last week through the Phins site and in a few days I received tix to the possible playoff game and a possible championship game if it is played in MIA.
Posted by: Pound | December 29, 2008 2:36 PM
Ed,
Accepted.
I forgot the Fins' FIVE SuperBowl appearances or the fact they are still the ONLY team to have gone undefeated through the entire regular season, playoffs, and won the SuperBowl.
Posted by: Jeff | December 29, 2008 2:30 PM
Assuming you purchase tickets for the event and not the sole purpose of hopefully reselling them, how exactly is this an 'investment' that would benefit the purchaser?
Posted by: dave | December 29, 2008 2:08 PM
Jeff,
I apologize I mistakenly included you in my to Kat.
Posted by: ed | December 29, 2008 1:55 PM
Hey Jeff/Kat
Why don't the both of you pack sand in your rumps amd you belongings and slough you're yourselves back to where you are from. Since you dislike it here so much, why don't you do yourself and the rest of us a favor by leaving?
Posted by: Ed | December 29, 2008 1:52 PM
Kat
My son and I went to every game last year AND this year. We also have Marlins tix. Don't generalize.
Let's look at records--Since the Fin's have been here the Bears have won ONE Championship--and their only loss that year was to us. They went to one further Superbowl and lost to the Colts.
Since 1907, the Cubs have won how many World Series??
The Marlins have won 2 in fifteen years, including beating the Cubs to make it their second series.
Could it be that unlike the frozen North, there are other things to do down here than attend a sports event??
Compare your population to ours--what percentage attends games??
Posted by: Jeff | December 29, 2008 1:44 PM
SWFla
I am going over to the Neighbor's right after work to see if they arrived. I am sure it already hit my credit card. Shall we say the neighbor is a little slow, so the tix MIGHT be there already.
If not, I call the rep in the morning and find out why not.
Posted by: jeff | December 29, 2008 1:36 PM
Heck NO!!!!!!!! Hate the Dolphins, and the Floridians only are fans when they win, when they loose they all disapear. Chicago teams RULE
Posted by: kat | December 29, 2008 1:08 PM
Heck NO!!!!!!!!
Hate the Dolphins, and the Floridians only are fans when they win, when they loose they all disapear. Chicago teams RULE
Posted by: kat | December 29, 2008 1:07 PM
wow, got through with ticketmaster at 9:30 and scored a ticket in sec 143 row 1!! $135.00, but they are selling on stubhub for $550.00. so.....ching,ching
Posted by: jeff | December 29, 2008 1:06 PM
Hey RODNEY, want to post that one more time? Check out the big brain on NY RODNEY!!!
Posted by: Andy | December 29, 2008 1:03 PM
NOPE.........
Posted by: DAS | December 29, 2008 12:56 PM
ALL YOU DULL-FINS FANS ARE
LOSERS, THE JETS LOST SO THE PATRIOTS WOULDN'T QUALIFY YOU EGGHEADS, SEE YA
Posted by: RODNEY | December 29, 2008 12:51 PM
ALL YOU DULL-FINS FANS ARE
LOSERS, THE JETS LOST SO THE PATRIOTS WOULDN'T QUALIFY YOU EGGHEADS, SEE YA
Posted by: RODNEY | December 29, 2008 12:51 PM
No, thanks. Most football fans are fat, drunk, insecure idiots.
Posted by: Billy | December 29, 2008 12:42 PM
I am chomping at the bit to go but i currently have a work conflict that i am desperately trying to get out of. If i can i will be there!!
Posted by: ck from centerton | December 29, 2008 12:39 PM
Hey Jeff,
I did not go through my account rep. I logged in to my account on-line and the tickets came 1 week ago.
Posted by: SWFlafan | December 29, 2008 12:36 PM
I ordered the day my buddy and I got the invoice. Has anyone who ordered directly from your account rep gotten their tickets yet?
Posted by: jeff | December 29, 2008 12:29 PM
And the jets...jets...jets can go too....if they buy a ticket
Posted by: Moshe | December 29, 2008 12:19 PM
I'm going to the BCS - who needs the pro's?? Go Gators.
Posted by: mark generales | December 29, 2008 12:16 PM
hey that's me and my husband dave on line we got 8 tickets!! Woot woot GO DOLPHINS!!
Posted by: susan pein | December 29, 2008 12:05 PM
Matt, stop bitching about the fans. Of course people would rather spend their money on tickets when the team is decent. Football is entertainment and it is way more fun to win than lose. Should everybody just fork over their money to the richest guy in Florida year after year no matter what? You should say, "Hey look at that, it's fun to go to a Dolphins game again."
Posted by: Andy | December 29, 2008 11:50 AM
Hey look at that, everyone is interested in football again? Everything is great when you are winning. The are probably the same fans who showed up during the Miami Heat championship run but couldn't be found in the stands this year or last year.
Posted by: Matt | December 29, 2008 11:33 AM
I would love to go, but 2008 has been such a long year with the economy. Unfortunately, I just can not afford to go.
Posted by: Nick | December 29, 2008 11:31 AM
THANK YOU!!! TO MR. H AND HIS ENTIRE DOLPHIN STAFF FOR THIS REMARKABLE SEASON. WORDS CAN NOT EXPRESS HOW PUMPED ALL FIN FANS ARE TO HOST A PLAYOFF GAME ONCE AGAIN.
GO FINS!!!!
Posted by: Tom | December 29, 2008 11:18 AM
Oh you know it. Proud season ticket holder. Bought my tickets when I got the invoice three weeks ago!!!!
Posted by: Andrew | December 29, 2008 11:16 AM
I will be there.. I currently live in Detroit and have been a loyal Dolfan for over 20 years!!!! GO MIAMI!!!!
Posted by: DolphinsBadMan13 | December 29, 2008 11:14 AM
As most dolfans know I retired back in 2007 after 26 years. Season Tickets and all. Radio shows,Tailgate parties, etc. Was known as Dolfan Stan in the Dolfan Community and South Florida. Have retired up to Central/North Florida. Will be staying home back at the RDS HQ's
Good Luck to the Phins in the playoffs... brings back alot of memories in my Dolfan Stan glory years.
Happy Holidays to all dolfans !
RDS
1981- 2007
Posted by: retired dolfan stan | December 29, 2008 10:48 AM
IAM DIE HARD FIN FAN, I LIVE IN ATLANTA AND I JUST GOT MY TICKETS AND DRIVING DOWN FRIDAY, IAM LOYAL ARE YOU?
Posted by: HENRY PETERMANN | December 29, 2008 10:17 AM
Dolphin fans far and wide please come down especially from the cold north and enjoy the weather as well as a hopeful Dolphin victory over the tough Ravens. Not only will you hopefully fill the stadium so we beachbums can watch it free on TV but you will help our SF economy!
It's interesting that both the Phins&Coach Cameron will meet up in the 1st week of playoffs following last year's disappointment.
Having said that I think Cameron is a good OC just not a HC. The key of the game will be stopping Flacco and maybe even taking a page from Baltimore's defense--scoring like we Sunday and returning it back to the house!!
Posted by: HS Math Teacher | December 29, 2008 10:02 AM
Just ordered my tix online...can't wait! Go Fins!!!
Posted by: Andy | December 29, 2008 9:25 AM
My play-off tickets AND AFC Championship tickets came on Monday before Christmas. I kept telling everyone that they were my Christmas present to myself.
Go Dolphins!
Posted by: SWFlafan | December 29, 2008 7:38 AM
I'll be flying in from the Bluegrass for my second game of the year.
Posted by: c | December 29, 2008 3:02 AM
Season ticket holder living in Colorado. I have my tickets and flight arranged! See you in Miami...Go Fins!
Posted by: coloradokevin | December 29, 2008 1:40 AM
I live in Nebraska, I went to the KC game and I just bought my airline tickets for this game! We are going to make this a real Home-field-advantage!
Posted by: Yeah! | December 29, 2008 12:55 AM
I would go if I lived near Miami.
Posted by: Paul | December 29, 2008 12:38 AM
I will be there!
I live in Orlando, and have had season tix for 15 years.
Man, does this make up for last year:-)!
Go Fins! I'll be there as always!
Woo-Hoo!!!!!!
Posted by: Finfan1 | December 28, 2008 11:53 PM