I was in the minority at my friend’s house on Super Bowl Sunday. I was rooting for the New England Patriots to win.

I wasn’t rooting for them because they are my favorite team, and I wasn’t rooting for them because I despise the New York Giants. I was rooting for them because I despise the 1972 Dolphins.

The ’72 Dolphins are the only team in NFL history to go undefeated during the Super Bowl era. Every year, after the last unbeaten team loses, they have their big champagne celebrations.

I have one message for the ’72 Dolphins – get a life and stop worrying about something that happened more than 30 years ago. You had a great run, but your time has ended. Records are made to be broken.

That’s why I despise every single member of that team: Don Shula, Mercury Morris, Larry Csonka, Nick Buoniconti, Bob Griese – all of them.

When the Bears made their great run in 1985, they lost one game­­ – to the Dolphins. It sickens me every time I watch the highlights of that dreadful Monday night game with Csonka and Co. standing on the sidelines like they were members of that Dolphin team.

I would have rather had the Bears lose to Green Bay than to Miami.

This season, there’s one Dolphin who has been in the media spotlight more than the others. Eugene “Mercury” Morris has gotten TV time the last couple of months. I never thought there would be so much attention given to a guy who spent four years in jail for selling cocaine.

He was on ESPN doing his rap about the ’72 team, he was in the Reebok commercial after the Super Bowl and in the days after the big game, he was signing footballs that said, “I told you so.”

Then there is the man who you would expect to be more mature than the others — head coach Don Shula.

Earlier in the season, Shula started making excuses, saying that the Patriots’ run would be tainted because of “spygate.”

When the Patriots traveled to Baltimore on a Monday night in December, Shula attended. He was in the town where he started his head coaching career with the Baltimore Colts. Ironic that he decided to attend this game, of all games, right?

During the game, Shula was up in the booth with Monday Night Football commentators Mike Tirico, Tony Kornheiser and Ron Jaworski.

Shula said he wouldn’t mind the Patriots going undefeated and he would even call Bill Belichick to congratulate him. But Shula was visibly rooting against the Patriots.

There will always be people who call the ’72 Dolphins the greatest team ever. However, if you actually look up the facts, you’ll probably disagree.

The Dolphins took advantage of a weak NFL that season, and that’s the only reason they were able to go unbeaten. The Dolphins had the lowest opponents’ winning percentage of any Super Bowl participant at .367.

The Dolphins didn’t face a team that made the playoffs all season and only played two teams that had records above .500.

To compare, the 1991 Redskins, a team that went 14-2, had a point differential of +261 compared to the ’72 Dolphins’ +214. The Redskins also held a .504 opponents’ winning percentage.

Plus, Mark Rypien, Art Monk and Co. averaged 30.3 points per game and outscored their opponents 102-41 in the playoffs.

And how about the playoffs for the Dolphins?

All three of Miami’s playoff games were decided by seven points or fewer. Plain and simple, the ball bounced Miami’s way in 1972.

The greatest team of all time, the 1985 Bears, went 15-1 and out scored their playoff opponents 91-10.

Listen, the Dolphins were a great team – one of the greatest of all time. But anybody who’s not a coward and looks at the facts will realize that they weren’t the greatest.

I would rank four teams ahead of them – the 1985 Bears, 1991 Redskins, 1984 49ers and 1989 49ers.

I just hope somebody goes undefeated to shut these guys up.