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A Canes fan: When and Why for you?

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I grew up in New Orleans didn't really care about college football except when my dad had LSU on occasionally. When I started looking at colleges I got a scholarship offer from the U. I basically put em on the top of my list, off the offer package. I sent the thing back in the mail and feels like the next day, in retrospect, I see the football team on tv and was locked in. It was towards the end of the 01 season, I graduated in 06. Had some incredible times in the OB.
 
Grew up in a pro-Miami household in west palm. I think it was 96', the last year bucs wore the cremesicle unis, is when I became a football fan.
That led me to watch more football.

Edgerrin James 98' season pique my interest in the hurricanes. The 2001 team and then Sean Taylor cemented me as a fan. They played which such violence and aggression. I love it!!!
 
As a little girl in the 80s with my brothers we went to many games in the old orange bowl.

It’s hard to remember the exact game or time but I remember my brother wearing the 1987 NC win over Ok shirt.

-I think I remember Eddie Brown but that’s borderline impossible
-One of them nicknamed Cortez Kennedy ‘blub blub’
-I remember the comeback win against Michigan a lot (TV) for some reason
-I remember the Cleveland Gary ND game
-I cried when we got killed by Alabama in 92
-It felt like death when our 58 game home winning streak was snapped
-I remember Rusty Medearis playing like he was possessed
-Same with Sapp
-the Edge UCLA performance when a hurricane got it moved was special
 
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Grew up in Eastern PA remember watching Miami v Psu and being ticked when Miami lost despite dominating, I was just beginning to understand football being the basics. Was accepted there but parents were divorced and I was recruited to play baseball at some D2/D3 schools. I wanted to play 4 more years of baseball. Plus my mother needed me closer.

Not a regret but I would have been there from 1998-2002. Def think about that at times.
 
"Did the Japanese go and sit down and have dinner with Pearl Harbor before they bombed them? To me it's the original "mic drop" . I grew up in England, something like this was so alien to the acceptable. It sang to my sole.
 
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Born and raised in the heart of SEC country, South Mississippi. Everybody I knew was either a BAMA, LSU, OLE MISS, or MISS. STATE fan. The first time I watched an interview with Schnelly, I knew I had to watch his team play. My first game to actually watch was the championship game against Nebraska. Been hooked ever since. We only had 3 stations back then, ABC, CBS, and NBC. Luckily for me, MIAMI was great viewing even back then so I got to see a bunch of their games.
 
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One of the first houses we lived in was 3 blocks from the OB. 10 dollars, no block #IYKYK
Would always hear the Dolphins fight song as they practiced there not to mention the Canes games. Played baseball the majority of my life so pretty much grew up at Mark Light. Not so fun fact, I did get a UM tattoo in 2004 and it's been downhill since then 🤦‍♂️
 
The 1987 UM/UF game was probably the first actual football game I watched intently. My dad and uncle were watching at my old house, they were casual Miami fans that had no affiliation to any other college but I fell in love with the team wearing the white helmets. I was 8. My dad got tickets to a home game later that year. It wasn’t a big game, I’m pretty sure it was Toledo. I just remembered “Walsh” was the quarterback. My mom got season tickets a few years later. The old West End zone family plan. We couldn’t afford Dolphins games but UM tickets were cheap and you used to be able to bring food and drinks into the Orange Bowl. Went to pretty much every home game until 1996. When I finished school and moved back to south Florida in 2001, one of the first things I bought when I got a real job was season tickets.
 
Grew up in Brevard county surrounded my Gator fans everywhere. As I mentioned in another post, we mostly saw the football games of the "traditional" powers on tv back then as well as, for some strange reason, Grambling football games. Didn't know UM even had a team until I stumbled on a game with them playing UF in around '78 or '79. They won but I believe they'd lost to FAMU earlier in the year. I sort of latched on to the team that was a little closer to home. I'd also been a Dolphins fan since I was 6 and loved everything about the city of Miami.
 
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Moved from Sicily when i was 10, met a girl going into 9th grade (2002) whos dad played for the U. Ended up playing football and wearing orange and green ( carson becks highschool) and it just became my team. Girl is now my wife, and was at the pop tart bowl with my father in law!
 
Born '81 in middle Tennessee back when they didn't have any pro teams, so the notion of having a local team was foreign to me. Dad grew up a Vanderbilt fan, but didn't the heart to force that on me. Mom went to LSU, and they sucked at the time. Because of this, I ended up cheering for teams that were on TV alot in the late 80's/early 90's; Bulls, Broncos, Pirates, Penguins, and Hurricanes.
 
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