Here's the Juice on Don Shula

Here's the Juice on Shula ...

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Because the Pats Pulled a Snowjob on Him in '82...

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ProJo: Shula Not One to Forget a Call

That�s when Shula showed how long the memory of a coach can be. He spat out four words � �The Snow Plow Game.�

�You know, I petitioned the commissioner to change the score of that game. It was a totally unfair act,� he said, talking with his hands which sported a big honking Super Bowl ring.

The Snow Plow Game is infamous. It was on Dec. 12, 1982, in the middle of a blizzard that was dropping plenty of snow on the field. The Dolphins and Patriots were in a scoreless tie in the third quarter in a mess of a game. As the Patriots drew near enough to attempt a field goal, coach Ron Meyer signaled for a sideline snow plow to cross the field to clear a path for kicker John Smith. The kick was good.

�When I saw Ron Meyer signal that convict to the field I should have thrown myself in front of that plow,� he said.

The plow driver was a worker in a prison release program. By clearing the snow, he all but guaranteed the three points. Without him, no one knows for sure, but you couldn�t even see the ball in the snow, never mind get it down for a kick.

So even though the Patriots finished that strike-shortened season 5-4 and the Dolphins and Shula won their third championship, Super Bowl XVII, the coach doesn�t forget.

�This should be Grill 348 not 347,� Shula said with a laugh. -- 3.7.07, The Providence Journal