Back in January the Miami Dolphins played the New York Jets at Metlife Stadium in New Jersey. Both teams were out of the playoffs, it was on a flex game schedule so we didn’t find out the time or date until a week before and it was one of the coldest days of the year. Because of all these factors it was the least attended #MetlifeTakeover in years… and yet we still had a great time and threw one hell of a party.
If you don’t know by now, I co-founded the largest Miami Dolphins fan club on the planet, Dolfans NYC, with my friend Michelle back in 2009. Despite both of us moving away from NYC we still run it from a far and turned our love of a football team into a non-profit organization raising six figures for charity over the years. The #MetlifeTakeover is our biggest fundraiser of the year and we have sold as many as 1400 tickets in the past and it’s become a bucketlist for Dolphins fans all over the globe.
This year we didn’t quite have 1400 people, but it was still a blast even though the game itself was absolutely miserable. The Dolphins lost which actually helped them get a slightly better draft pick and hurt the draft pick of the Jets, our most hated rival, so looking back it was a win despite it not feeling like one at the time. Because of the late season game and disappointing season we didn’t spend too much time thinking about our recap video in the offseason, but we just launched ticket sales for the 2025 #MetlifeTakeover so we of course had to finally release the video.
Shout out to Curtis of Visual Verse Media for directing, shooting and editing the entire video himself. Curtis and I have dreams of working on a documentary in the future, so hopefully that will actually happen. And of course shout out to our friend and comedian Oscar Collazos for hosting the video.
*The 2024 #MetLifeTakeover happened the last week of the season in early January so it technically happened in 2025.