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Dingaan1828

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It was easy to be a Miami fan when they were kicking college football's collective butts. It's not so easy over the last 8 or so years. I'd like to hear from you guys about what you have gone through that you consider to be the biggest test of your "fanhood".

Mine came early and makes all subsequent problems seem smallish to me in comparison. The 1958 season put my teenage love of Hurricane football to the test. I sat through 8 home games, watched them get shut out twice at home (one of them was 41-0). They lost to Vanderbilt at home. The lost to FSU for the first time ever. Watched them lose to Maryland in a game billed as the "Toilet Bowl", then finally win the last game of the season 2-0. That team made you forget what offense looked like. Still, that didn't dampen my anticipation for 1959. I was hooked long ago.

Then, there was the 70s. If you followed the team then, and are still a fan, consider yourself well tested - lulz.

I want to hear from you guys.
 
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Gonna be a die hard no matter how much I curse and say we suck (when we are losing of course)

Beginning of each year I'm gonna be pumped for the season no matter how bad or good we are projected to be.
 
Ill go to extremes to show my love for my teams. Last year at the Browns/Steelers game in CLE I told probably a 5 year old kid in steelers gear that santa wasn't real. True story haha
 
I thought getting blown out by LSU in the Peach Bowl was rock bottom......

Let that sink in.
 
The home loss the UVA in the OB was the bottom for me.
I never, ever question being a fan. I'm very disappointed in some areas of the program right now, but I also know I can't control any of it, so I hope for the best and would like to think my perseverance will be paid off.
IMO you can't beat that feeling of anticipation you get on those six Saturdays when they run through that smoke.
I try to temper any dissatisfaction I may have with the realization that the vast majority of CFB fans/teams have never and will never have the type of success Miami has had.
And no it's not settling... it's reality.
 
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Well tested since the late 50's, if we were as bad as we have been that would have been more than good way back when.
 
I attended my first UM game in 1979 as a kid. Let's just say the UM football program is the best roller-coaster ride I have ridden.
 
1995 against UCLA when Jonathan Ogden picked up Michael Lawson like child and body slammed him. Hard to believe what Butch built from that point. Sitting in Doak Walker stadium in 1997 for the 47-0 beat down was another low point. Butch telling Bowden the Canes would give him a better game in a couple of years at the post game handshake was the only positive. My fandom will never waiver....GO CANES!
 
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Sure it has, but my NHL team has tested it way more (NY Islanders) and I went to one of their games over in Columbus this year (lost the game 4-0, but won the fights 3-0!). I don't get to go to many Canes games, but everyone I have been to in the past 10 years, they have won, so I always leave encouraged. This includes the home Oklahoma game, Stephen Morris' comeback against Maryland in '10, the Malcolm Lewis injury comeback win at GT and my personal favorite, the 24-6 beating of O$Uck. Came down on the plane with Sucknuts and when they started leaving Sun Life in droves in the 4th, I told them I would see them back in Ohio.

The mid to late 90s were not a picnic, so bucking up and rooting on is no problem now.
 
I sat through the UVA pounding in the OB. That was rough because you had to stay until the end. It was awful. I also went up to norman for the whooping that stoops put on us. That sucked because I traveled all that **** ways in the car to see us get curb stomped.

The probation era in the 90's sucked too, but never once, never has my love for the U wavered. I am battle tested and know that we are on our way back.

They want us to be dead because they know we run football when we are right.
 
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I love my Canes 4 life been a fan for 30 years. I've watched over the last 8 years or so and I see how the administration has castrated the program, and it hurts but i also know I don't have any control over it. With that being said I'm going to continue to go to games and support the kids that still wanna rep The U. While at the same time hoping and praying that a change is on the horizon!
 
Dingaan1828 said:
It was easy to be a Miami fan when they were kicking college football's collective butts. It's not so easy over the last 8 or so years. I'd like to hear from you guys about what you have gone through that you consider to be the biggest test of your "fanhood".

Mine came early and makes all subsequent problems seem smallish to me in comparison. The 1958 season put my teenage love of Hurricane football to the test. I sat through 8 home games, watched them get shut out twice at home (one of them was 41-0). They lost to Vanderbilt at home. The lost to FSU for the first time ever. Watched them lose to Maryland in a game billed as the "Toilet Bowl", then finally win the last game of the season 2-0. That team made you forget what offense looked like. Still, that didn't dampen my anticipation for 1959. I was hooked long ago.

Then, there was the 70s. If you followed the team then, and are still a fan, consider yourself well tested - lulz.

I want to hear from you guys.
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