{"id":204989,"date":"2026-03-25T04:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204989\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T04:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:56:17","slug":"can-steve-ross-return-the-miami-dolphins-back-to-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204989\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Steve Ross return the Miami Dolphins back to glory?"},"content":{"rendered":"

History will eventually prove that Steve Ross is a man of his word.<\/p>\n

The real estate mogul has done just about everything he vowed to do as a sports influencer in South Florida, despite many of us doubting his vision, and often questioning his team\u2019s execution.<\/p>\n

But the skeptical nature is much like bad driving in South Florida. It should be expected.<\/p>\n

Ross paid a premium price for the Miami Dolphins, and the privately owned stadium that housed South Florida\u2019s NFL team 18 years ago. Then he pumped half a billion into the venue to make it \u201cfirst class,\u201d with the goal of hosting major sporting events.<\/p>\n

And he has done just that.<\/p>\n

Ross saved the Miami Open, moving it from a dilapidated Key Biscayne venue, and retrofitting Hard Rock Stadium\u2019s grounds for it.<\/p>\n

Miami Gardens, and its No. 1 employer, has hosted multiple National Championship Games, which includes January\u2019s final game, and brought major soccer events to South Florida, which includes hosting the World Cup beginning in June.<\/p>\n

Ross also created one of the grandest F1 events in North America, a race that annually infuses hundreds of millions into the local community in one weekend.<\/p>\n

The race, which hasn\u2019t even turned five yet, has become so big it\u2019s more profitable annually than the Dolphins\u2019 entire football season.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right, one weekend is worth at least $1 billion. And Ross did that.<\/p>\n

While Dolphins fans might get in their feelings about the financial gains Ross has made from all his other sports ventures, let us not distort the truth to fit our agenda-driven narrative.<\/p>\n

There hasn\u2019t been one moment as the Dolphins owner Ross could be described as frugal, or distracted when it came to running South Florida\u2019s NFL franchise.<\/p>\n

However, the only thing he hasn\u2019t done is win at the highest level in the NFL. But that hasn\u2019t been for lack of trying.<\/p>\n

Few owners have infused more into their team, their facility than Ross has over two decades.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why Ross deserves some grace as a sports owner because the last thing I would want him to do is step away, losing his passion for building something that\u2019s \u201cbest in class,\u201d which has always been his goal in whatever he touches.<\/p>\n

If you got to attend the Miami Open, the F1 race, or any of these world-class friendly soccer events, you would get it.<\/p>\n

The people who don\u2019t are Dolphins fans.<\/p>\n

For Ross, owning the Dolphins was always about building a legacy, and this isn\u2019t the time for the 85-year-old to withdraw, which I\u2019m told he\u2019s doing, giving more and more daily power and decision making influence to Dan Sillman, his son-in-law.<\/p>\n

A shift in power, say, influence could be a good thing. Maybe Sillman can give his full focus, attention, energy and effort to the Dolphins, which is something Ross has never done because of the many plates he has spinning in the air.<\/p>\n

But it also could be a bad thing, one that has us exiting a highway headed in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n

The Dolphins\u2019 struggles during the last decade-plus with Ross signing the checks was a result of poor leadership at the top of the football operations side.<\/p>\n

Ross inherited Jeff Ireland, and a dysfunctional situation left behind by Bill Parcells, and stayed in it too long.<\/p>\n

He hired Dennis Hickey as Ireland\u2019s replacement, and when Ross discovered Hickey was in over his head, he hired Mike Tannenbaum as his boss.<\/p>\n

Chris Grier replaced Hickey as Miami\u2019s general manager, and stayed in that position for 10 years. Grier eventually inherited Tannenbaum\u2019s power after he was removed with Adam Gase.<\/p>\n

Problem is, history will show that Grier was in over his head because of his lack of conviction on decisions, lackluster drafting and history of doling out bad contracts, while simultaneously letting some of the team\u2019s better free agents walk.<\/p>\n

Not all of the mess new GM Jon-Eric Sullivan and new coach Jeff Hafley were hired to clean up was Grier\u2019s fault. Former coach Mike McDaniel had a hand in the journey the Dolphins took the last four years, as did Ross, because he funded Miami\u2019s foolishness, doubling down on the 2023 season despite the realization that that squad didn\u2019t beat a single good team that year.<\/p>\n

But that was the Dolphins\u2019 past.<\/p>\n

The page has been turned, and another rebuild is upon us.<\/p>\n

This time around, let\u2019s hope Ross gives it one last chance, reinvigorating himself to find the passion he has seemingly lost to make the Dolphins a championship organization, before checking out.<\/p>\n

Just like South Florida deserves the Miami Open and F1 being in our backyard, we deserve to see the Dolphins returning to glory one day. And hopefully that day happens in Ross\u2019 lifetime.<\/p>\n


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