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what I miss about the OB

Watched Super Bowl ll in OB. Then Super Bowl lll and what was at the time the greatest upset in history. Then the Fins Perfect Season. Then the real Greatest upset of all time, Canes over the Cornhuskers for our first NC. Then came the GLORY AND HONOR of the domination of college football for 2 decades. R.I.P. to Bama's home streak and all the plays. The Hall of Famers that roamed the turf. Toss in the Fins ruining the Bears undefeated season and WOW. That doesn't even touch the other NC games played there on so many New Year's nights. That it is gone is a crime against humanity.
 
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I'm flying in from Texas to go to the season opener. I'll be there at Sun Life cheering on the canes... but there's no doubt it just isn't the same as the old OB.

**** you, Donna Shalala. **** you.

Let's recap all the awesome things that have happened since Donna Shalala took over in 2001: Hired Larry Coker, Did nothing as the city tore down the Orange Bowl, Hired Randy, Hired 3 AD's who all quit/took other jobs, was cited by the NCAA for LOIC, bowl bans, suspensions.

Ruining a great program like we were must have taken some serious effort. I mean, you would have to try really hard to ***** up something so awesome.

Hey, but she did build us a basketball arena though. Too bad we're not a basketball town/school/alumni base/people.

And blew a bunch of money on the university hospital.

What's up next for Donna? What's the next big debacle she can attach her name to?
 
^you've already started your own Donna bashing thread. Keep that there. This one is about the OB, not Hospitals, basketball, or the coaches/AD's she's hired/fired.
 
I miss the neighborhood experience. The whole idea of parking on someone's lawn or even better, paying the home-owner to park curbside in front of their house. Then walking thru the neighborhood, hearing salsa music cranking, the street meat, just the whole thing. There was nothing like it in all of sport...and now it's gone.



And that ******* SUX!!!


I seriously get depressed when I think about it.
 
I tried to think of something that I don't miss about it. I got nada.
 
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As a boxing guy, I've got to mention Pryor-Arguello I. What a fantastic prizefight that was

the Orange Bowl was one of the last great (original)American stadiums
 
k9cane said:
As a boxing guy, I've got to mention Pryor-Arguello I. What a fantastic prizefight that was

the Orange Bowl was one of the last great (original)American stadiums
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IMO that is STILL the greatest boxing match of all time. Those guys traded blows like no two people ever. Neither guy was ever quite the same after that fight. They beat a decade off of each other's lives that night.
 
ScubaCane said:
Bowl Bar
No Block
Pee trough
West End Zone
Crowd Noise
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I shamed many dudes at those pee troughs. I used to love whipping that serpent out and watching grown men walk out of that restroom with their heads down and that "**** that's what a real cox looks like" look on their faces.
 
Ibis Wingz said:
The stench of puke wafting through the air as soon as we entered the building. It was unmistakable on a 97 degree day!
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That smell was like smelling salts to us, brother. There were times we'd walk into the bowels of that grand old lady a little worn down from the oppressive heat, and we'd inhale our lungs full of that thick stench of boot. At that point, all would be well.
 
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Unfortunately for me, I'm young and only got to experience one game in the OB. I was 8 years old and I remember every minute of it. I've been to 15 or 20 games at Sun Life, and never had as memorable of an experience than I did that day at the Orange Bowl. I truly wish I could have gone to more games.
 
And to think our OC used to park cars there. You know that Cubana has got to have some stories.
 
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No there were others on the Miami Board that warned the Marlins Stadium would cost between 1 - 2 billion but the City of Miami desperately wanted the new construction. Miami also didn't have the $40 plus million that would have been their share of the reconstruction.

There is hope however as the new major league soccer team wants a new 40,000 - 50,000 seat stadium and they want UM to play football there as well. They need the University of Miami if there's any hope of county and city participation. The voters know how the University got screwed and it could at a minimum get the county to chip in part of Tropical Park and for the stadium. The soccer team will have to bear most of the estimated construction cost of $150,000,000 to $200,000,000 million plus land but the University could sign a long term lease in the many millions per year if they can get out of their Dolphins lease. This is something that can be done and hopes of a new Orange Bowl aren't totally dead.
 
CandyCane said:
No there were others on the Miami Board that warned the Marlins Stadium would cost between 1 - 2 billion but the City of Miami desperately wanted the new construction. Miami also didn't have the $40 plus million that would have been their share of the reconstruction.

There is hope however as the new major league soccer team wants a new 40,000 - 50,000 seat stadium and they want UM to play football there as well. They need the University of Miami if there's any hope of county and city participation. The voters know how the University got screwed and it could at a minimum get the county to chip in part of Tropical Park and for the stadium. The soccer team will have to bear most of the estimated construction cost of $150,000,000 to $200,000,000 million plus land but the University could sign a long term lease in the many millions per year if they can get out of their Dolphins lease. This is something that can be done and hopes of a new Orange Bowl aren't totally dead.
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don't we have like a 20year lease with the SunLife stadium?
 
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The Franchise said:
ScubaCane said:
Bowl Bar
No Block
Pee trough
West End Zone
Crowd Noise
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I shamed many dudes at those pee troughs. I used to love whipping that serpent out and watching grown men walk out of that restroom with their heads down and that "**** that's what a real cox looks like" look on their faces.
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Always waited until I had an enormous erection before walking up to ****.. and splatter that back wall like it's nobodys business. "Don't act like you're not impressed"
 
eliteproxy said:
CandyCane said:
No there were others on the Miami Board that warned the Marlins Stadium would cost between 1 - 2 billion but the City of Miami desperately wanted the new construction. Miami also didn't have the $40 plus million that would have been their share of the reconstruction.

There is hope however as the new major league soccer team wants a new 40,000 - 50,000 seat stadium and they want UM to play football there as well. They need the University of Miami if there's any hope of county and city participation. The voters know how the University got screwed and it could at a minimum get the county to chip in part of Tropical Park and for the stadium. The soccer team will have to bear most of the estimated construction cost of $150,000,000 to $200,000,000 million plus land but the University could sign a long term lease in the many millions per year if they can get out of their Dolphins lease. This is something that can be done and hopes of a new Orange Bowl aren't totally dead.
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don't we have like a 20year lease with the SunLife stadium?
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A lease is a piece of paper. We all know how much contracts and leases are worth these days. Full speed ahead to a new stadium.
 
The intimidation factor for opposing fans. Imagine those country white folks walking in to the OB..this is what they get:

- The smell of liquor and urine as you make your way around the stadium.
- stepping over an ocean of broken beer bottles and used condoms
- Blaring loud Miami booty music with sexually explicit lyrics
- Fights in the stands
- Gunshots heard in the surrounding neighborhood
- Sitting next to people that look like this:

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Also the lighting in the stadium was dark and gritty creating a back alley type of atmosphere. I actually LOVED that the OB was old and decrepit like an abandoned shack on the corner of some opa locka street...it just made middle class folks uncomfortable. place was haunted.
 
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