had left the AFL to doubt whether a city such as Philadelphia would support two professional football teams. Moreover, while by 1965 the NFL was already seriously entertaining merger discussions with its rival, the future of the AFL's two remaining teams in shared markets was a major sticking point which the AFL commissioner Joe Foss did not wish to aggravate further. At the suggestion of Foss, Robbie agreed to court Miami due to its warm climate, growing population, and lack of a football team. Robbie was soon able to secure a lease for the Orange Bowl, and Thomas would eventually sell his stake in the team to Robbie. A contest was held in 1965 to choose the name of the team, which elicited 19,843 entries and over a thousand different names. The winning name, "Dolphins", was submitted by 622 entrants. During the summer of 1966, the Dolphins' training camp was in St. Pete Beach with practices in August at Boca Ciega High School in Gulfport. The Dolphins' first head coach was George Wilson, former coach of the Detroit Lions. Under Wilson, the Dolphins had a combined 15–39–2 record in four seasons. The 1970s: The perfect season and the Super Bowl titles Upon joining the NFL in 1970, the Dolphins hired Don Shula, a former Paul Brown disciple who had been lured from the Baltimore Colts after losing Super Bowl III two seasons earlier to the AFL's New York Jets and finishing 8–5–1 the following season, as their head coach. The Colts were enraged, especially since they had agreed upon the merger to move to the new American Football Conference and become the Dolphins' division rivals. They charged the Dolphins with tampering in gaining Shula. NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle awarded Baltimore Miami's first round draft pick in 1971 as compensation. Shula introduced himself to the Miami press by saying that he didn't have any magic formulas and that the only way he knew to make his teams successful was through hard work. Shula's early training camps with the Dolphins would soon be the stuff of sweltering, painful legend. But Shula's hard work paid immediate dividends, as Miami improved to a 10–4 record and their first-ever playoff appearance, losing 21–14 at Oakland. The Dolphins were a successful team during the early 1970s, becoming the first team to advance to the Super Bowl for three consecutive seasons. They captured the AFC championship in