#MetLifeTakeover Weekend Starts Tomorrow!

It’s that time of year again, #MetLifeTakeover weekend! The fun starts at Slattery’s on Saturday night where we have our pre-party from 6-8pm and then of course our huge tailgate before the game and then we all head up to the cheap seats to cheer on the Dolphins, hoping to get our first win of the season. It should be a blast and we got a lot planned between a brand new merch drop, some tailgate surprises and some absolutely massive raffles.

The party kicks off at 6pm at Slattery’s Midtown Pub. Technically it ends at 8 because we have a lot of stuff to pack up and organize Saturday night, but everyone is welcome to hang out at the bar as long as they want. We have our DJ spinning, new merch for sale, HUGE discounts on old merch and we are raffling off a Malik Willis jersey, a Malik Washington signed mini helmet and a Jordyn Brooks signed pennant. All the money goes to charity and we will have some giveaways as well if you don’t want to throw in some cash.

Speaking of our new merch, it’s a 90s themed drop. The last merch we did was an 8-bit 80s themed hat so of course we had to follow that up. This year we have two shirts that are designed in the style of 90s bootlegs. We have a Metlife Takeover shirt in the style of the shirts that guys would sell in in the parking lots before games back in the day and we have a shirt featuring a bunch of cartoon characters that reference all the old Looney Tunes/ Bart Simpson shirts that people ripped off and sold out of the back of car trunks. Both shirts were designed by Mike Jones, the former designer for the streetwear brand Mishka who were famous for their 90s flips and bootlegs. The Dolfans NYC logo on the cartoon shirt is going to be showing up on three different hats as well. It’s a lot of fun and only available in person. Not trying to get our Shopify account banned for selling bootlegs.

The clothing and the first raffle are in person only, but if you can’t make it to the takeover and want to get involved you can buy tickets to our second raffle. This one we are raffling off a Jacob Rodriguez jersey, a Zach Sieler jersey and a Kayden Proctor signed helmet. Some absolutely massive prizes that we are giving away all to raise money for good causes (Miami Dolphins Foundation and the Dolphins Cancer Challenge). You can get tickets online and we will ship to you if you can’t make it to the tailgate. (Winners pay shipping costs). Tickets are $20 for five tickets. If you want tickets you can send money via PayPal to dolfansnyc@gmail.com or Venmo us at @dolfansnyc.

On Sunday we are meeting at Slattery’s at 7:30am for the busses to the game. We still have bus tickets available if you are interested. You can buy just a one way ticket if you like as well. If you aren’t taking the bus with us the tailgate officially starts at 9am in the bus parking lot near L4. Look for our U-Haul flying Dolphins flags because some clown is trying to host his own knockoff Takeover nearby. If you somehow haven’t been to our tailgate it’s an absolute blast and we have an amazing all you can eat and drink set up. Tickets are still available through Saturday but prices go up on the day of the game if you want tickets last minute.

Anyway, I can’t wait to see everyone. The Takeover is such a blast, win or lose, but I have a feeling we might finally win one this season. We keep getting closer to putting a full game together and there would be no better time than at the #MetLifeTakeover!

 

2025 #MetLifeTakeover Photos

The Dolphins season started out so poorly and so did Takeover ticket sales. People were so down on the Dolphins we would go weeks without selling a ticket, but just like the Dolphins season we turned a corner and in the end the 2025 Takeover was an absolute blast. With the cost of Jets tickets in the dumpster and playing in December we still had one of our smallest Takeovers, but it was one of the smoothest, most enjoyable Takeovers I can remember.

The weekend started out at our bar Slattery’s Midtown Pub the night before the game. It’s always great to hang out with everyone. We need some raffles and sold some merch and just got to talk football and see people we only get to see once a year at the Takeover. It’s always so much fun even though we end kinda early because we have to be right back at Slattery’s at the crack of dawn to set up for the bus trip over to New Jersey.

For the tailgate itself stripped down our budget a bit and decided to sell all our t-shirts at half price to clean out our inventory so we were still able to raise a bunch of money for charity. Our 50/50 raffle raised more than $600 and the person who won is a teacher and is planning on using the money on school supplies for kids so it was a huge win/win.

Huge shoutout to Urban Tailgate for another great set up. With a slightly smaller crowd the lines were moving quickly and the food was great as always. Our DJ Drell was killing it all day and spinning some great tunes and our videographer got some great footage that I can’t wait for you guys to see.

The game itself was incredible and we were absolutely rocking up in the cheap seats as always. It was so funny to see a nearly completely empty stadium except for our group of Dolphins fans packed in the corner. The weather got pretty cold by the end of the game, but considering recent years it was a really great day weatherwise. Honestly everything was amazing. I even walked down to the lower levels and watched the last Jets drive from about the 3rd row on the 40 yard line right behind the players bench. I took a couple shots down there so you can check that out along with all the tailgate photos.

Thanks so much to everyone who came out and I honestly cannot wait to blow it up next year. Just pray for an early season game, good weather and some big wins. We will also be making all new merch for next season hopefully that’s something to get excited about as well. Phins up!

Click below to see all the photos I took and hopefully our recap video will be coming sooner rather than later!

 

2025 #MetLifeTakeover

2025 #MetLifeTakeover Tickets Are On Sale Now!

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The #MetlifeTakoever is back! We have an all new website and the video from last year should be released very soon!

We have a solid date locked in of December 7th at 1pm and that means bus transportation is back and at the same price as it was in 2023. Tailgate prices are remaining the same as last year and game tickets have actually gone down slightly. Given the Jets QB situation they should be paying us to go to the game but at $100 for early bird tickets we are glad this year is reasonably affordable.

All the details and links to buy tickets are as always at metlifetakeover.com and we can’t wait to see everyone this season! Phins up!

Get your tickets for the 2025 #MetLifeTakeover!

 

Welcome To The New DolfansNYC.com!

Dolfans NYC was founded during the offseason between the 2008 and 2009 seasons and this website has had the same design that entire time! While building this new site I went to update our About section and realized I hadn’t updated it since I first wrote it in 2009. Insane.

After building a new #MetLifeTakeover site two seasons ago it was finally time to update our actual site!

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We don’t use it very often, mostly just to update you guys about the Takeover, but it needed a refresh and super glad it’s done.

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We actually have a few more surprises that we have been working on at the same time so those should be coming later in the season!

Also if everything goes right, we will be launching the 2025 #MetLifeTakover ticket sales tomorrow and we have been holding off posting the last #MetLifeTakeover recap video until the new site was ready so that’s coming very soon as well. Lots of exciting things happening as we get ready for our 16th season!

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We have come a long way since 2009!

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The Beginnings Of Dolfans NYC

2024 #MetLifeTakeover Recap

Well that was a frustrating ending to a frustrating season. All our hopes and dreams exploded in week two and that’s about when ticket sales for the #MetLifeTakeover pretty much dried up. We were facing some tough odds anyway with week 18 being a January flex game. We couldn’t organize busses from our bar and some of the out of town groups couldn’t either, the Jets season collapsed and so secondary ticket sales were in the dumps and our tickets were selling for three times as much as the lowest secondary sales, oh, and the freezing cold weather didn’t help.

We were worried the #MetLifeTakeover would be a disaster… well it turns out it was a blast anyway. We doubled our tailgate sales in the week leading up to the game, suddenly the game counted for something and that little bit of hope got people got on board again. Dolphins fans had been scooping up tickets on the secondary all season and you could tell it was mostly Dolphins fans in the stadium… they just weren’t sitting up in the cheap seats with us… but it felt like they all came to our tailgate.

Despite the cold weather everyone had an absolute blast (before the game). I can’t tell you how many people told me how much the tailgate meant to them. First time folks said they would absolutely be coming back and even after the game we heard from people who had a blast despite the cold and the score. Even on a personal level, for the first time ever, I wasn’t looking forward to the Takeover, but it only renewed my excitement about future Takeovers. I want us to kill it next year. I say this all the time, but it really is true, football is better with friends. No one at home on their phones yelling at me for my optimism on Twitter can understand how much more fun it is, win or lose, when you are surrounded by people who love this team enough to brave 20 degree weather to watch a truly awful football game.

So yeah after paying everyone we almost certainly lost money on the Takeover for the first time ever, but we still managed to raise nearly $2000 through our raffles and merch sales and we will of course be donating all that to charity. Our biggest raffle prizes were provided by the Miami Dolphins Foundation and we have been working with them since the very start of this club. Specifically we donated $1000 to the Nat Moore’s Endowment through the MD Foundation because, outside of Jason Jenkins, no member of the Dolphins organization has been more supportive of Dolfans NYC. We have also decided to put another $1000 to the LA fire relief efforts with $500 going to Habitat For Humanity Wildfire Fund and another $500 going to direct donations to people on the ground in LA. If you know any Dolphins fans impacted by the fire please reach out, we would love to help them directly as well.

Anyway, I am so glad that we could have some fun and do some good for the world, even in a down year. We will have a video recap coming sooner or later. (The teaser for the video has already been posted on our Instagram.) But in the meantime check out a handful of photos that I took below.

Thanks so much to everyone who came out and here’s hoping next year the game is in October! Phins up!

2024 #MetLifeTakeover

Important Transportation Update & Party Tonight!

Just doing a quick post to let everyone know that we messed up and the bus to MetLife Stadium does not start running until 2pm so we are going to now be taking the 160 bus from Port Authority at 12:20pm.

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We are still meeting up at Slattery’s to walk over but it’s a long walk so we will be leaving at 11:40 now. Feel free to meet us at Port Authority as well.

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You can also take NJ Transit to the game starting at 1pm. Click here for more info.

Also, just as a reminder we have a party tonight (Friday) at Slattery’s Midtown Pub. The party starts at 6pm and we will be doing a raffle and have a merch for sale.

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We will have our DJ there as well and we have some discounted Dolphins memorabilia as well.

Trying to empty our storage bins for the off season.

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Final Details For The #MetLifeTakeover

This has been a very strange year for the #MetlifeTakeover as we didn’t even know what day it was going to be until late last night. We had to make plans well in advance and it’s caused plenty of complications. But now that we know the game will be 4:25pm on Sunday, we have some details for you guys!

  1. We scheduled our yearly pre-party for Friday night months ago and we can’t change that even though the game is Sunday. We will be at our bar Slattery’s Midtown Pub from 6-8pm. We will have a DJ, a raffle and merch for sale. We should have some good deals as we try and clear out inventory for the off season.
  2. With a 4:25pm start time, tailgating begins at 11:25am. It takes us about an hour to get everything fully up and running so the official start time is going to be 12:30pm. As always we will be in Charter Bus Lot L4.
  3. TAILGATE TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE! Purchase them directly from Urban Tailgate, and use our code DOLFANSNYC for $20 off. 
  4. If you need game tickets, purchase on the secondary market in one of our sections, either 322 or 323.
  5. Because we couldn’t give the bus company a specific time, we couldn’t charter busses this year, but anyone who wants to go together as a group Slattery’s Midtown Pub will be open at 11am and we will be walking over to Port Authority as a group at 11:40. It’s about a 15-20 minute walk from the bar. You can also try and meet us at Port Authority at noon. The bus leaves at 12:20.
  6. Keep in mind you won’t be able to leave anything on the public busses so plan accordingly.

This year is going to be smaller than normal, and colder than normal, but at least the game has actual postseason implications and we know we are all going to have a great time. We can’t wait to see everyone. Phins up!

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2023 #MetLifeTakeover Recap Video

Get excited because this is the first time in years the #MetLifeTakeover recap video came out before the season was over. Luckily our director and editor, Curtis Edward Paul, has some free time right after the Takeover and was able to finish the whole things in a couple of weeks. That being said, this video was released on social media before the Cowboys game and I am just now getting around to putting the video thanks to visiting family for the holidays and then not wanting to think about football for a few days after the butt kicking the Ravens put on us. Pain.

But yeah, the video is up and it’s amazing. It features interviews with a lot of the regulars like Nat Moore, Joe Rose, Solo D, 2023 Fan of the Year Chris Barker, plus interviews with Frank The Tank, Mary Martinez, the viral elementary school teacher and more. Another viral Dolfan, Kickball Dad, made the video as well. This year wasn’t officially our biggest event ever, but only because the Jets would only sell us around 950 seats. It was the first time we have ever sold out before the season even started, the most busses we have ever had and I know our section had thousands of Dolphins fans because people bought up every ticket in section. The secondary prices in our section was like $80 more than anywhere else in the upper decks. The video very much reflects how amazing our party was.

Shout out again to Urban Tailgate for helping us throw this party, DJ D Rell and crew for the music, Oscar Collazos for hosting the video, all our volunteers and of course all of you guys who came out to party with us.

Now hopefully the Raven’s game has been pushed down into the deepest parts of your brain and you can actually enjoy this video. We worked really hard on it. Phins up!

 

2023 #MetLifeTakeover Photos

The #MetLifeTakeover was a huge success this year and I just want to thank all of you for making it amazing. We weren’t able to get as many tickets this year because the Jets thought they were gonna be good this year (lol), but we sold out before the season even started and gave out our section number to the hundreds and hundreds of people who emailed us requesting tickets too late. I wouldn’t be surprised if we had 2500 Dolphins fans sitting together because our sections were packed. With the great tailgate and the Dolphins dominating on the field it was just an amazing day.

Speaking of the tailgate, we had a huge crowd all day and a video I took from the top of our U-Haul went viral, being reposted by tons of national media outlets, and even a local TV station reached out about using it, although I have no idea if they actually did. Speaking of TV, the film crew from HBO’s Hard Knocks came out to the tailgate, interviewed Michelle and I as well as some other fans and did a short segment during episode two of the show. If you didn’t watch the episode you can watch the short segment here.

We had some cool guests at the tailgate this year. Dolphins legends Joe Rose and Nat Moore never miss a tailgate but we also had a couple of social media stars, with Kickball Dad returning to the Takeover to film some videos, and elementary teacher extraordinaire Mary Martinez celebrated her 30th birthday with us. We had two Miami Dolphins Fans of the Year in attendance, Dolphreaky and the newest Fan of the Year Chris Barker. Solo D performed as he always does and my cousin came out because her husband is a huge Dolphins fan and that was really cool for me.

On the charity front, we raised over $6000 just from raffle and merch sales and that doesn’t include the money we made from ticket sales. We are unfortunately dealing with some possible unexpected expenses because of an unfortunately incident that we won’t get into, but we should be able to donate over $10,000 to charity this year. We will be announcing donations as they happen on Twitter but hopefully at the end of the year I can do a run down of the good that money is doing. By the way, all donations to us are tax deductible so if anyone is interested in donating please reach out.

Shout out to DJ Drell, our new regular Slattery’s DJ for killing it at his first #MetLifeTakeover and Solo D for his yearly performance. Solo came to the second or third one of these we ever did and hasn’t missed one since. He’s become such a huge part of our tailgate experience. Thanks as always to our tailgate partners Urban Tailgate. Those guys take everything off our plate and handle all the food, drinks, games and simple stuff like getting there hours before the gates open to make sure we get our regular spot. And lastly, huge thanks to all our volunteers who we couldn’t do any of this without. From our bus captains, to the people selling merch and raffle tickets, to just random people who grab a bin from the bus and bring it over to the tailgate for us, we appreciate you guys a ton.

Anyway, I did a terrible job of documenting the event, but I did technically take some photos, so I got a gallery of stuff for you guys to look through. Don’t worry though, we will have one hell of a recap video for you guys coming a lot sooner than last year’s video. I can’t wait for you to see it.

2023 #MetLifeTakeover