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There was actually some of that in Dade County before the 1970s. It was before my time, but I remember several African-Americans telling me it was a no-no to drive into Hialeah, especially via that bridge that goes over the train tracks at 103rd/49th street. I was told the cops would be parked...

And did he give interviews afterwards?

LOL @ Bagel Beach.

No worries, you're one of our best posters, and contributors, on this board. Just know that the older one gets, the better the stories become....lol. Anyways, enough of my Al Bundy Polk HS reminiscing.

Seriously, so much sports history in south Florida, and I'm not even talking about the dorky pro sports teams. Everything from little leagues, high school, UM (of course) and even JUCO baseball. Even some cool stuff with Muhammad Ali when he was training in soFla (before my time, but heard about...

It gets all of us old geezers in the nursing home to run to the nearest PC in the home's community center to type away our fading memories....lol

A pretty good MLB pitcher by the name of Steve Carlton graduated from NM HS. One of my teachers at HML (Ms. Klores) dated him in HS. I believe she had a brother who was a long-time coach at Carol City HS too.

Yeah, anytime we had a scrimmage against [insert name] Boys Club, it was time to fasten the chin-strap a notch tighter. Those dudes played like someone had slapped their mommas, and that was fine because we had some good teams ourselves and it brought out the best of us. We also had some good...

Cool stuff as usual Pentagon. There was a book authored by Robert Andrew Powell a few years ago titled "We own this game", dealing with crazy Pop Warner scene in South Florida...a great read on that topic, but he also did a wonderful job of providing background and context to the societal issues...

Legendary football coach who lost his HC gig when schools started integrating in the late 1960s. He continued to coach Track&Field and I believed died of a heart attack in 1980. Lots of history in soFla regarding high school sports, especially during segregation era. It's too bad most of this...