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A Canes fan: When and Why for you?

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Hold My Beer said:
Going on 51 years now. 👴

Two older brothers: one a Gator for life the other a Nole for life. So my choice was simple as that.

Saw the Canes beat the Univ. of Tampa Spartans and the great Freddy Solomon in 1974 at the old Tampa Stadium and was hooked for good
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Hold My Beer said:
Going on 51 years now. 👴

Two older brothers: one a Gator for life the other a Nole for life. So my choice was simple as that.

Saw the Canes beat the Univ. of Tampa Spartans and the great Freddy Solomon in 1974 at the old Tampa Stadium and was hooked for good
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Not a 3x Miami degree guy, but first associated with the program late 70s. Established relationships with the likes of Ottis Anderson, George Gallet and an OL from Buffalo later known as Lex Luger. Got to be around Howard, Kelly, Richt and then teammates who were assistants through the years. Long rocky road.
 
Mom grew up in Miami. Grandfather used to take her to UM games in the 50s and 60s. I went to my first UM game in '85 and went to almost every home game until I went away for college in 1997. Melvin Bratton went to my Bar Mitzvah. I also went to almost every UM basketball game from the Knight Center days to the arena, including every home game the year Miami went 0-18 in the Big East.

Forget to mention, I went to UM law for 2 days before I decided I didn't want to be a lawyer and went to grad school elsewhere that I won't mention.
 
IndayArtHauz said:
I don’t know.
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The Sopranos Hbo GIF
 
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Hold My Beer said:
Going on 51 years now. 👴

Two older brothers: one a Gator for life the other a Nole for life. So my choice was simple as that.

Saw the Canes beat the Univ. of Tampa Spartans and the great Freddy Solomon in 1974 at the old Tampa Stadium and was hooked for good
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All 3 of you must have some crazy sport fights
 
Wide Right 2. My family was never into sports so I had no team. Found myself watching this game as a young kid and it got exciting. As the game progressed, I started pulling for Miami and they won. Latched on and never let go after that.
 
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Born in Key West in the late 70’s and became a huge fan in the early-mid 80’s. Some of my favorite players growing up were Melvin Bratton and the Blades’ brothers. Probably my fondest memories as a kid were those games against that fool Bosworth/Oklahoma and the “Catholics vs. Convicts” games against the Domers.
 
1996. Grew up a FSU fan, converted when I started my freshman year at UM in fall 1996. One memory that sticks out is when it was FSU week in fall of 96, the players took turns hitting a garnet and gold car with sledgehammers lol. I never looked back since.
 
Hold My Beer said:
Going on 51 years now. 👴

Two older brothers: one a Gator for life the other a Nole for life. So my choice was simple as that.

Saw the Canes beat the Univ. of Tampa Spartans and the great Freddy Solomon in 1974 at the old Tampa Stadium and was hooked for good
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Brother went to The U with Jim Kelly. I was really young but got to hang around the ZBT back then and have had season tickets since 80. I skipped college but would have never gotten into UM with my grades anyway. LOL
 
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It was the late 80's, early 90's. One of the parents (Irish fans) from my competitive soccer team had a party and the entire team was there. On the TV the Hurricanes were playing Notre Dame at night. Coming from Canada I was not a huge fan of watching football until I saw the way the Canes played defense and talked shiit. Every hit seemed lethal and all the kids were imitating the dances that ensued. I was hooked. Looking back as an adult, those parents must have had a horrible night watching a bunch of jits dancing on Notre Dames grave all night.
 
tsimonitis said:
I wad 10 years old and watched the 91 Cotton Bowl. It was the greatest thing I ever saw.
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Jim Nantz: "Come on back Randall. Come on back"

Favorite Cane beatdown of all time (non-Gator/Nole division) and the single-most absurd stat in any UM game ever: Canes flagged 16 times for 202 yards and still delivered a 46-3 ***-kicking in UT's backyard :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:



 
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