Bunker Mentality
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UM was the hometown team for just about everybody in Broward unless you had familial allegiance to UF or fsu or were from davie.
Yep.
Zbrod is a nice kid but he's part of the very young **** South Florida generation of front-running cumbags with no local pride or sense of community. I can assure you that Broward was all about UM until fairly recently.
It was. This is all disgusting me. I grew up within the 305 but it was one area and the U was our school just like the Dolphins were our team. At Dolphins games there were Cooper City (Broward) people that sat in front of me at every game. This generation has no fûcking sense of community pride.The Fins moved north as a testament to it being one area.
I never said Broward people didn't root for Phins and Canes. Just referring to a sibling-type rivalry and struggle for identity that created resentment at a certain level of the population that clearly isn't reflective of some on the board. But when I talk about being a teenager, from "round the way", Broward Boyz have always wanted an identity apart from Dade county. Just sharing what I know and it's not up for debate because I lived it, and "if you don't know, now you know!!" Ask any athlete from Dade playing a Broward School and vice versa if there isn't a little something extra there when it comes to representing the county.
Ok. I get that. Broward had an inferiority complex and a chip on its shoulder whereas we didn't think twice about Broward... Not trying to be contentious... But just because it was Broward. Ft. Lauderdale was always in Miami's shadows... I knew kids from Hollywood like that who had that chip against Miami.
We also had rivalries within Dade between areas too. It wasn't unique to counties. It was still all one area when it came to the U though. That was a uniting factor. That unity and pride in our City or our area's school, however you want to put it for your own mentality, is gone today, unfortunately.
Dade dudes thought Broward dudes were soft, and Broward dudes thought Dade dudes we clowns who felt strong because they lived in Dade. This was at a certain juvenile level that's very representative of these young athletes, and not reflective of how grown men feel; even the kids tend to grow out of it also.
Not sure what your last sentence means, but i'm pushing 40 and two posters ages 18 & 21 said this is still very much the mindset of young kids in certain areas.
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