Dolphins 34, World 0: How One NFL Score Seduced a Planet Teetering on the Brink
Dolphins 34, Jets 13—an American gridiron footnote that, in saner times, would be of interest only to Floridian barflies and the three people in London who pretend to “get” the NFL. Yet the moment the final whistle shrilled across Hard Rock Stadium, the scoreboard’s neon digits were already ricocheting through fiber-optic cables, inflicting themselves on…