SUGAR WE'RE GOIN' DOWN

Not to mention countless “Wide Rights”.

For somebody from the PacNW, I have very clear memories of Washington ending (with authority) Miami’s 57-game home winning streak.

Miami had Ray Lewis, UW had Napoleon Kaufman, Damon Huard and a cast of other future NFL’ers.

That pretty much ended the Erickson years in Miami, after which they ended up likeall Erickson teams – on probation. To say nothing of the probation that UW was already on at the time.

Ah, the glories of the NCAA rulebook and subsequent tears falling into my Red Hook as we pray that Jake Locker can bring UW back into prominence…

We’ve got a couple good memories there as well. A couple of Orange Bowl wins and a National Championship along with a win over then-10th ranked Miami in 2004 which we followed up with…a loss at Duke. Hopefully we can show some consistency these last three games.

I guess Erickson started his era of revenge this year when ASU kicked the crap out of Washington.

I will never think of the OB again without thinking of this. J-Money is an artist without peer.

It’s too bad George Teague didn’t replace Lamar Thomas as commentator after his brilliant piece of commentary. Life would have come full circle.

Dreads the first mention of [undefeated NFL season redacted].

I’ve never been to the Orange Bowl or Miami, but I wish they would restore the place instead of moving. I love the palm trees in the end zone. The worst part about Pro Player stadium or whatever it is called now is that the Canes will be playing on a baseball field for the first two months of the season. The baseball field is terrible for spectators, but it must be worse for the players.

My favorite play was the 3rd and 28 or whatever it was against Notre Dame the year after they won the national title (’89 specifically). It was just such an insane conversion and really put the exclamation point on the ass-kicking Miami doled out that night. That said, the place is a shithole.

hopefully ibis will crank one more soulja boy before turning out the lights.

So can we talk dat noise in the OB now? In they house?

Actually, it was 3rd and 43:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw1zUKJVEw8

The ’87 South Carolina/Miami brawl.

http://www5.cockytalk.com/video/miamifight.wmv

That Loooo Hotz, he’s a coachin genius.

I started attending college and high school games in the OB in the early fifties. In those days it wasn’t uncommon for there to be 30-35 thousand fans in attendance for the big high school games like Miami High/ Edison/ Jackson. And then there was Andy Gustafson and the Miami Drive offense with Don Bossler. And, even though my dad was a hard-core Gator and I was born a Gator we attended the Cane games. Why? Because we were college football fans. Later, when I was in high school there were over 40,000 fans for the Gables/Miami High game, Gables first win over the Stingarees.

Then, of course, there was the ‘84 Cane/Okla game, the “wide right” games, the “Hail Flutie” game, the Dolphin Monday night games and many, many more. I’ve spent a lot of exciting afternoons and evenings there. I was even there for the infamous “Gator Flop”.

Unfortunately, now there is just a dilapidated shell of a stadium to go along with the dilapidated neighborhood. The Dolphins are gone. So are the Canes, actually. The average UM attendance last year was thirty thousand per game, and the only reason it was that high was that the FSU game was played there.

It’s sad, but the old lady is dead……and rotting.

Resquiat in pacem.

Thanks for posting that, Rickus. That safety for ND, #15, got scoooooorched.

OPS,

Yeah. It looked he was thinking, Are they gonna try that shit? Nah, they ain’t tryin’ that shit. OH SHIT, THEY’RE TRYIN’ THAT SHIT!

DarthGatorOne,

So were you there in ’66 when Miami handed Georgia their only loss down there?

Who wants to shoot the Boz a commission?

http://www.sothebyshomes.com/agents/Brian.Bosworth

There has been only one time in my life I ever rooted for Miami. 2000 game against Florida State because I hated Chris Weinke with an unspeakable passion. I never got why people kept trashing Ken Dorsey after that game…awesome, awesome game.

My favorite memory of Miami…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7q1V95zfYo

I hate that frickin’ place

Sad to see it go. Feral is probably the best word to describe Big Game Day at the OB. I always felt like I was entering Mogadishu and that if the Canes won, my lifeless body was going to be hung from a goal post while some LALALALALAing lady was triumphantly holding up my balls. Maybe that was just me, though.

Saw two wide rights, a couple of wins and a couple of Orange Bowls. The chain link fence surrounding the upper deck made it like a concentration camp and the team on the field made you wish for a quick death.

I remember extra points splashing into the dolphin tank, which contained an actual dolphin (where was PETA?) I also remember Larry Smith’s pants almost falling off on the (then) longest run in OB history, Florida vs. Ga. Tech.

I’m gonna miss the Orange Bowel

I remember when Iowa played USC in the Orange Bowl in 2003. Just hearing “Iowa” and “Orange Bowl” together told me that our program had finally returned.
Sadly, after the opening kickoff, we got torched, but man the month leading up to it was heaven.
Bye, OB!

What do you think will happen to people who come into the Dolphin Stadium talkin’ that noise?

They’ll get told to keep it down, the elderly in Miami Gardens are trying to have a quiet 2 pm dinner. They are the ones who should get their behind kicked!

Check it out, Notre Dame thought this would go great as an addition to their endzone, and they already like the cold anyway!

http://www.miamifunguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/lolita.jpg

They thought it would be good because it filled two race quotas, Eskimo and Black.

TCU went into the OB in 1992. We took our 2-8-1 team—the one that tied Western Michigan 17-17 in the home opener, which was also the first home game of my freshman year. (That was also the team that beat Texas for the first time in 24 years.)

I remember being at the State Fair of Texas with my girlfriend (later wife—now ex-wife, of course) and seeing the highlights of TCU-Miami on a TV in an exhibition hall. We lost something like 45-14, and I remember thinking that that score wasn’t really too bad… I had feared a 77-0 or something like that. But I’m sure Miami pulled its first string in the second quarter.

I also remember the sign hanging outside one of the frat houses the week of the game. Instead of encouraging the team, as those signs usually did, it just said, “Who the hell scheduled this one?”

never been anywhere quite like the OB. felt like i was walking into a riot

Hate to see that place go. I’ve never been there myself, but my Granddaddy was a season ticket holder back in the 50s-70s and my Momma’s high school used to play their home games there. (she graduated with Nat Moore at Edison)

You could see the scoreboard from my Aunt and Uncle’s house, and I’ll always remember a picture they have of the scoreboard from one of the Cowboy-Steeler games.

That place saw Miami merge from a Southern town to an international city.

i laughed at the title

Personal favorite:

Jan. 2 1978

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7JujYnnslvY

My only visit to the OB: Kerwin Bell’s : “Holy Shit” first start and near win against the Canes in ’84. He did all he could (as always), but Vinny was just a little bit better that night. How we found the car is still a mystery.

i remember watching the ‘84 orange bowl. it broke this little husker’s heart, but you’re right when you say coach osborne went for two was balls personified.

it took ’bout 11 years for the huskers to get there again. and that game was worth the wait.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IPczLvhPJuk

good times… hopefully, better days for lincoln are ahead.

i shutter to think they could be worse.

oops. sorry, wrong year.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3rpulKkcXcE

sorry to torment you with tommie’s breakway run in the ’96 fiesta, orson.

Mr Wrong,

Kerwin Bell’s first start for the Gators was against Miami, but not in the OB. It was in the- as far as I know-only UF – Miami game to be played in Tampa Stadium. The Gators took the lead late, but Bernie Kosar brought UM back in the closing seconds to win it. Charley Pell resigned later that week I believe…

Charley didn’t resign until two games later when the Gators were 1-1-1 (tied LSU in Gville, beat Tulane). Maybe Mr. Wrong was thinking about 1985 Gator win at the OB, last time UM lost at home for about nine years.

DarthGator: yeah, it wasn’t until the Dolphin’s third year in existence that they drew a bigger crowd than Coral Gables v. Miami High. My freshman year at Gables (’92) was the last time Gables-Miami High was at the OB.

Now I’m getting all vaklempt. I’m glad that smarter management teams elsewhere have kept Fenway and Cameron still around so that when the day comes I’ll be able to take my kids to a real sports arena and not these sterile concrete tombs they keep building.