Former NFL Player
Eugene "Mercury" Morris 22
Football player, as a running back he helped lead the NFL Miami Dolphins to back-to-back Super Bowl wins in 1973 and 1974
Webster’s defines the term: “Historical Present”, as present tense used in relating past events; that means “The Perfect Season” is 35 years ago and right now at the same time …!
On January 14th, 1973 after The Dolphins’ victory over the Redskins, the term “Perfect Season” came into existence … The score board in the Los Angeles Coliseum read: “Dolphins are Perfect” 17-0 … That was the birth of “The Perfect Season”.
35 years later, we are about to witness the possibility of another team winning every game in the regular season and eliminating every opponent in the Play offs in order to earn the right to vie for The World Championship of the NFL.
This Season is special because at no other time since 1972 has a team be able to equal what we accomplished when The Miami Dolphins became the first team to complete a Season with an unbeaten and untied record achieving a winning percentage of 1,000% highest in NFL History.
Since 1972 the mathematical odds of any Team going undefeated are 1290 to 1.
The “1” being us and the 1290 which represents the amount of chances each Team has had over the last 35 years ... “Going undefeated is not a cake walk it’s a gauntlet.”
This just might be the time in History when another Team could equal the mark of accomplishment and have for themselves the second “Perfect Season” in Pro Football History … Thus you have “The Historical Present” for the 1972 Miami Dolphins and 2007 New England Patriots.
This game will decide whether History will be made by the New England Patriots or be made by the New York Giants.
I am not rooting against the Patriots, because one day (February 3rd to be exact) these guys might be our next door neighbors in the “State of Perfection”! “So I want to create good Karma”; however …
Right now, the population of “Perfectville” is 1 … February 3rd, 2008 … all that could change but until then … I’m rooting for the Giants!
Eugene “Mercury” Morris
World Champions 1972 – 1973
“The Perfect Season” and “Back to Back”!
About Eugene:
Eugene "Mercury" Morris (born January 5, 1947 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a former American football player who played running back in the American Football League in the 1960s and the NFL in the 1970s, and played in three Super Bowls. He attended Avonworth High School in Pittsburgh. Morris attended West Texas A&M University from 1965 to 
1969, where he was an All-American at tailback in 1967 and 1968. After college, he was picked in the third round of the 1969 American Football League Draft by the AFL's Miami Dolphins.
Morris was selected for three Pro Bowls over his nine-year professional career. The majority of his playing days were spent with the Miami Dolphins which he helped lead to Super Bowl VI which they lost to a strong Dallas team, he earned Super Bowl rings in Super Bowl VII and Super Bowl VIII. Morris, sharing halfback duties with Jim Kiick, was instrumental as part of the historic Dolphins undefeated team of 1972. That year, he ran for exactly 1000 yd, becoming, with teammate Larry Csonka, the first 1000-yard tandem in NFL history. Following the season there was doubt that he gained the yards. There was a mysterious loss of yardage that was changed in his favor, so he could get
his 1000 yards. He followed that up with a 954-yard season. Morris spent the last season of his career playing for the San Diego Chargers. He finished in the top five of the NFL in rushing touchdowns twice and total touchdowns once during his nine-year career.
In 1974, Morris co-starred as Bookie Garrett in the blaxploitation film The Black Six alongside other football stars of the day.
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