:cry: It will soon be announced that the last tenant at this venerable stadium will vacate and move north to Dolphin Stadium. Back when gas was 10 cents a gallon, spanning over 12 presidents, where Joey predicted a Super Bowl guarantee......where a young QB by the name of Dan Marino started throwing 80 yard TD's.....where Boston College won that lucky game that made Doug Flutie famous.....where the most poweful modern-era college football power set innumerable NCAA records..................THE END IS NEAR.....SAY GOODBYE TO THE ORANGE BOWL. Yes, the Miami Hurricanes, in the never ending search for more revenues.....will leave its antiquated home in favor of glitzy Dolphin Stadium...with its swanky Sky Suites and club seats....a move that will net the Canes over 5 million in additional yearly revenues. Oh woe is us all............say goodbye to a historic pantheon of football.....say goodbye to the Orange Bowl
Good move on the part of the Hurricanes. The additional 2,681 empty seats should pretty much ensure that everyone attending a Miami game will be able to put their feet up.
I have many fond memories of the Orange Bowl, but it has come time to move on for the Canes. My last experience down there when we played last was not so fond. And not because we lost, but because of the traffic getting there and the rest room facilities among other things. Back in my high school days the major high schools played all their games in the Orange Bowl. On Thanksgiving Day Miami High and my school, Miami Edison almost filled the stadium for our annual game. The series was very lopsided until the 50's in favor of Miami High, but us Edison people filled our half the stadium anyway. I saw my first college game there, the Canes vs Kentucky, when Kentucky was coached by the Bear and a national power. Babe Parillie was the Kentucky QB and they won 21-6. For about four to five years from late 1949 until I left for UF in Sept 55 I saw a lot of the Hurricane home games. Stars or the era were Frank Smith, Jackie Hackett, Don Bossler among others. Oh, Miami played their home games on Friday night. Miami broke into the big time in 1950 when the defeated a Purdue team, in Indiana, 20-14 the week after Purdue had ended a long Notre Dame winning streak. The airport was filled with fans when they came home. Lots of fond memories, but as I said it's time to move on as the Orange Bowl just doesn't have the power to draw fans any more. I know more than one Gator for instance who after similar experiences that I had in our last game who would not go down there again, but who will go to Dolphin Stadium. To bad, but time moves on, good move by the Hurricanes.
I saw my first college football game ever at the Orange Bowl. We were livng in West Palm Beach at the time and my dad took us to see Miami play Syracuse (I think). I wonder if the gipper will give us his fond memories of the Orange Bowl!
At Doc's request First of all, you just don't realize how helpful folks who live around the Orange Bowl can be. Wearing an "ND" shirt and heading to the 1990 OB game, it seemed like dozens of folks in Miami were more than happy to tell us where to go. My brother-in-law who was with an advertizing frim in Chicago had sent us some tickets. These included a pre-game pass to the NBC VIP tent that was just outside the stadium. I recognized all of 2 people in the tent, boxing manager Lou Douva (one of the ugliest individuals I've ever seen) and shrimpo Bob Costas. In any event, I figured if we were lucky enough to get into this tent with all sorts of food including shrimp, we must have great seats. In fact, I'd checked and we were on the 45 yd line. The Orange Bowl, unlike most modern stadiums did not have a field well below the seat level. In other words, if you were row one you were right at field level. We were in row 2. We were directly behind the Colorado bench. With a bunch of 250 lb.+ players lined up on the sideline, we couldn't see a damn thing. At halftime we moved to the upper deck endzone area and found two empties. Far from the field but we could see the game. Lots of cheering at unsusal times during the game. Many of the attendees were local Cane fans who were watching or listening to the Sugar Bowl game played at the same time. Since the Buffalos were ranked no. 1 going into the game, the Canes needed ND to upset them to win the NC. Talk about folks in pain!!! Hurricane fans actually rooting for ND!!! It was a dump.
:lol: I started going to the Orange Bowl in the early '80s.....the glory for me started in '83 with Coach Schnellenberger winning Miami's first NC.....almost every single season since then was a magic-carpet-ride....incredible athletes doing incredible feats and dominating college football year in and year out.....it seemed we were either playing for an NC , had a strong chance of playing for an NC.....or flat out winning an NC. There has been nothing like it in recent memories of college football....it must have been just as exciting to have been a fan attending Notre Dame games back in the 30's to the 60's or at Nebraska or Oklahoma or Michigan or PSU. and Alabama.......magnificent times worth every moment. The Orange Bowl probably has more historic moments in its history than any other stadium in the nation due to the fact that it served as the home of the '72 Dolphins, home of many a storied college game and certainly home to the most thrilling Orange Bowl games that riveted a nation come New Year's Day. There is nothing approximating the thrills and spectacle of the Orange Bowl. Thanks, Malloy, Vaughters and Terry O' for your historic perspectives.....I believe Coco and Joco also have been to the Orange Bowl.
:lol: HUSKEROBJECT......I know......I was there...there was a sea of red at the Orange Bowl....very impressive fourth quarter turnaround for the corneaters.
:lol: HUSKEROBJECT.....something you haven't learned.....when your team is doing .500 you take a double dose of "humble pills" each morning. In your case you probably need a prescription for 1,000 mgs Que te crezca