Hello, my name is Igor and I am a professional football fan.

I hate to do this to you guys, but it’s that time of year again: football season. If you meet me 8 months out of the year you would probably never guess that I cared about football, much less base my entire well being on the success of the Miami Dolphins.  Why the Dolphins? I have no idea. I am from DC. I should be a Skins fan. I think my dad being a Cowboys fan and growing up in DC made it so I couldn’t like either of those rival teams. Some time around 1988 I picked the Dolphins and I have stuck to it.

If you didn’t know by now I am not a causal fan.  I am obsessed. I am a 30 year old man who collects football cards. I own a pair of Ricky Williams cleats and most oddly I run the New York City Miami Dolphins fan club, Dolfans NYC. This is a club with over 500 members who meet at a Murray Hill sports bar called Third and Long every Sunday.  I lead the crowd in chants and the Dolphins fight song. It is really really weird. Last Sunday I lost my voice screaming in a bar.

Now how does this effect you? Well I will try to limit my posts to one or less a week for the next 17 weeks.  We have a bye week and I am going out of town next weekend so you are down to a maximum of 15 Dolphins related posts… unless of course we make the play offs…

Anyway, moving on I just wanted to drop this one poorly shot gallery from week one of the Dolphins season at Third and Long sports bar. And for the record we won beating the Buffalo Bills which was nice since I grew up hating them more than any other team.  That of course has been replaced with my hatred of the NY Jets but we will save that tale for week 3.  Go Dolphins!

Click here to see the photos from the week one Dolfans NYC meeting at Third and Long.

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