Michael Irvin says Friday Night Resembled the Old Orange Bowl Days

Tuesday at 11:26 AM 2 min read

Former Hurricane great, The Playmaker, Michael Irvin appears multiple times a week as NFL analyst on the ultra popular YouTube sports show, It Is What It Is featuring late 90's early 2000's hip hop moguls, Cam'ron and Ma$e.

This morning before diving into their weekly NFL takes, they spent 8 plus minutes on the Miami vs Virginia Tech game. Some of Irvin's most notable quotes are below:

Michael Irvin on the energy at the game -
"The energy was incredible and it was really electrifying. We have been talking about trying to create that again, that old Orange Bowl scene at Hard Rock Stadium. I promise you that was as close as we have ever gotten in all of these years trying to recreate that thing that we had before."

Michael Irvin on the winning mentality -
"Right here, right now, you must make the decision on how you're going to live the rest of your life. Are you going to be a winner or are you always going to come up short? If you say. 'No way I am losing this game,' you are saying, 'No way I am going to lose in life.'"

Michael Irvin on former players talking Canes-
"We always talk about it at Miami, always talk about family, always talk about all of us are always available to try and help the other dudes."

The entire 8:00 video of Michael Irvin and the show talking about the Canes 38-34 win over Virginia Tech is here.

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BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati

Tuesday at 11:39 AM

There will be no recreating the OB until Hard Rock installs trough-style urinals, snorting sounds from the one (and only one) stall in the restroom, removes all air conditioning, moves the seats significantly closer to the field, allows Cuban immigrants to sell gato en palo in the parking lots and reconstructs The Orange Bowl Bar complete with all the Mos Eisley creatures inside and removes the seats on the east side of the stadium so that we can see the downtown skyline..

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AtlAtty

Tuesday at 11:53 AM

Love the Playmaker.

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hurricaneman

Tuesday at 11:54 AM

It's mainly because it's the fans that create that environment, the same fans that created the environment in the OB. Miami has one of the most unique fanbases in the country in that they mainly draw people from the city, not alumni. It's not a bunch of old, uptight boosters and alumni.

The city also has a ton of passion in general due to the cultural melting pot and because you draw from the city that passion then comes out on gameday, if the people are engaged.

When the city of Miami cares about the University of Miami it is one of THE most exciting places in all of college football to watch a game. And the stadium atmosphere is crazy. There's a reason all these opposing fans say they hate going to Miami games.

P-Tizzle

Tuesday at 11:57 AM

Cam'Ron and Mase were hip hop moguls?

404Usernamenotfound

Tuesday at 12:08 PM

Energy was great but it was not even 60% of the 2017 VT or Notre Dame games.

WestEndZone

Tuesday at 12:10 PM

Good to see the playmaker is still running on Bolivian marching powder. Godspeed.

Salt

Tuesday at 12:22 PM

wasn't at either game but I suspect Miami vs Notre Dame back in 2017 was the type of atmosphere we had back in the day for big games. I recall College Gameday was in town too for that game.

miamimike305

Tuesday at 12:23 PM

hurricaneman said:
It's mainly because it's the fans that create that environment, the same fans that created the environment in the OB. Miami has one of the most unique fanbases in the country in that they mainly draw people from the city, not alumni. It's not a bunch of old, uptight boosters and alumni.

The city also has a ton of passion in general due to the cultural melting pot and because you draw from the city that passion then comes out on gameday, if the people are engaged.

When the city of Miami cares about the University of Miami it is one of THE most exciting places in all of college football to watch a game. And the stadium atmosphere is crazy. There's a reason all these opposing fans say they hate going to Miami games.

The fans create that environment is definitely true. They need to get rid of those vip seats in the middle of the lower bowl and put actual seats. You could fit another 100 people there and it would be louder.

BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati

Tuesday at 12:33 PM

Salt said:
wasn't at either game but I suspect Miami vs Notre Dame back in 2017 was the type of atmosphere we had back in the day for big games. I recall College Gameday was in town too for that game.

Indeed. They hosted it on campus, which was where the greatest sign in all of GameDay was hoisted.....

Pan Con Pinga y se acabo el pan

Glorious. Just typing those words out in that Cuban mantra of freedom and glory brings a nostalgic tingle to my entire body.

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HurricanePhilly

Tuesday at 12:33 PM

Guys was running on level 10 for big chunks of that game. I just kept picturing TUCO yelling Tight every time they showed him amped up.

Kn[]_[]ckles3o5

Tuesday at 12:40 PM

404Usernamenotfound said:
Energy was great but it was not even 60% of the 2017 VT or Notre Dame games.

I was there it was the best game environment since the comeback in 2003. The Bandy pick was every bit as rowdy as Hester’s KO return TD to open that game in 03

#1cane

Tuesday at 12:48 PM

hurricaneman said:
It's mainly because it's the fans that create that environment, the same fans that created the environment in the OB. Miami has one of the most unique fanbases in the country in that they mainly draw people from the city, not alumni. It's not a bunch of old, uptight boosters and alumni.

The city also has a ton of passion in general due to the cultural melting pot and because you draw from the city that passion then comes out on gameday, if the people are engaged.

When the city of Miami cares about the University of Miami it is one of THE most exciting places in all of college football to watch a game. And the stadium atmosphere is crazy. There's a reason all these opposing fans say they hate going to Miami games.

Miami needs that 2017 atmosphere when they played ND and VT at night back to back. Pack the Rock!! A good team playing big games like the good old days!!

Salt

Tuesday at 12:52 PM

BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati said:
Indeed. They hosted it on campus, which was where the greatest sign in all of GameDay was hoisted.....

Pan Con Pinga y se acabo el pan

Glorious. Just typing those words out in that Cuban mantra of freedom and glory brings a nostalgic tingle to my entire body.

I remember hearing that fans had surrounded the Notre Dame buses in the parking lot and were rocking the buses back and forth, or some thing to that effect? That whole team (including coaches) were shook before they even got on the field.

oso4lyf

Tuesday at 1:31 PM

BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati said:
There will be no recreating the OB until Hard Rock installs trough-style urinals, snorting sounds from the one (and only one) stall in the restroom, removes all air conditioning, moves the seats significantly closer to the field, allows Cuban immigrants to sell gato en palo in the parking lots and reconstructs The Orange Bowl Bar complete with all the Mos Eisley creatures inside and removes the seats on the east side of the stadium so that we can see the downtown skyline..

And you park in someone else's surrounding home instead of the pavement from a race track that feels like it's 125 degrees when standing on it.

Unsider

Tuesday at 1:31 PM

Gotta hand it to MI. At nearly 60 years of age, he was lit as a bouncing firework on the sidelines.

Hurricane23

Tuesday at 1:33 PM

Put some palm trees by the end zone

WestEndZone

Tuesday at 1:51 PM

Salt said:
wasn't at either game but I suspect Miami vs Notre Dame back in 2017 was the type of atmosphere we had back in the day for big games. I recall College Gameday was in town too for that game.

I think the idea is the 2017 Notre Dame game was as good as any of the best Orange Bowl games.

This past VT game had an Orange Bowl feel for sure.

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dk72

Tuesday at 1:58 PM

BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati said:
There will be no recreating the OB until Hard Rock installs trough-style urinals, snorting sounds from the one (and only one) stall in the restroom, removes all air conditioning, moves the seats significantly closer to the field, allows Cuban immigrants to sell gato en palo in the parking lots and reconstructs The Orange Bowl Bar complete with all the Mos Eisley creatures inside and removes the seats on the east side of the stadium so that we can see the downtown skyline..

Don't forget the rickety metal bleachers and floors in the student section that makes an amazing, loud sound when the fans stomp on them when the opponent is on offense!