FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WINK)\u2014Hundreds of Dolphins fans are gathering for draft night watch parties as the team holds two first-round picks.<\/p>\n
The Dolphins are hosting two fan parties, one in Broward County and one in Miami-Dade. At The Wharf in Fort Lauderdale, staff spent the day setting the stage for a full draft night experience.<\/p>\n
Crews built out a live panel setup where fans can hear analysis in real time. Others prepped food trucks, stocked the bars and got ready for a packed crowd.<\/p>\n
For many fans, the connection to the team runs deep. Sotiri Athana, a Dolphins fan, described the passion of the fan base.<\/p>\n
“It’s a passionate fan base. We’ve struggled for many years. We’ve had a couple down years prior to when Tua got there. Then we were kind of ascending, but it looks like we’re back to a rebuild,” Athana said. “It’s a rich history. But we’re diehard fans and we can’t get out of it. It’s a blessing and a curse.”<\/p>\n
Fans said they’re not just there to watch the draft. They’re part of the moment as the Dolphins build what they hope is a contender.<\/p>\n
The Dolphins enter round one with the 11th and 30th picks. They finished 2025 with a 7-10 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WINK)\u2014Hundreds of Dolphins fans are gathering for draft night watch parties as the team holds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,28,249,251,250,123,1763],"class_list":{"0":"post-243852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-broward-county","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale","11":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","12":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news","13":"tag-miami","14":"tag-miami-dolphins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}