Wow I live on Eureka and 122nd. Practically neighbors33 - Birth
Earliest memories are piling into my moms Astro van at Eureka park(SW 184th St and 117th Ave) to watch those early 90’s canes noles games. My dad was a Pop Warner coach at the time so all my saturdays as a young boy were spent at Pop Warner games either playing or watching. We always had a small tv with an antenna to catch the big canes games.
I had family in 80’s-90’s first house on Prosperity Farms Road just north of PGA let me know if you were around thereJust off Prosperity Farms Rd. North of Northlake. It was a bit different in the late 70's and early 80's. I remember our Principal at Allamanda Elementary having to shoo a cow out of the breezeways of the school one morning. No more open land for cattle now. Big change moving up to the Appalachian States. Some good, some bad. I came back and stayed.
It may surprise you that A) I went to school for an education and B) The Canes absolutely sucked until my last year there.You became a canes fan AFTER you graduated from Miami? Wtf lol
What the **** were you doing while on campus? Lol
What made you go to Miami in the first place?
26 (27 next month) - I became a fan of Miami after meeting Coach Richt when he was still at UGA (I came over from the UK in 2012) through friends I had on the team (my best friend is the one you can see in my avatar picture) and upon Richt’s firing I was devastated like many of my friends who were on the team and those who were in the NFL. Like them, I hated the hiring of Kirby Not-so-Smart so I followed Coach Richt’s return to Miami once I knew that was where he was headed and spent the entire Summer in the offseason of the 2016 season watching The U, The U Part 2 and every single piece of game footage I could find. I started in 1983 with the first National Championship and culminating in the 2001 National Championship. I then watched the Ohio State vs Miami game in the Fiesta Bowl (and the greatest fallacy in CFB history >.<) and select other games from that point on and seeing the struggles, the legendary peaks and gut-wrenching valleys made me buy in wholly to this team, fall in love with this school and its players and I have been passionately bleeding orange and green ever since. Thank you for making a thread like this @troyskiles
You are welcome, my Canes Brother! This really cool info to read.26 (27 next month) - I became a fan of Miami after meeting Coach Richt when he was still at UGA (I came over from the UK in 2012) through friends I had on the team (my best friend is the one you can see in my avatar picture) and upon Richt’s firing I was devastated like many of my friends who were on the team and those who were in the NFL. Like them, I hated the hiring of Kirby Not-so-Smart so I followed Coach Richt’s return to Miami once I knew that was where he was headed and spent the entire Summer in the offseason of the 2016 season watching The U, The U Part 2 and every single piece of game footage I could find. I started in 1983 with the first National Championship and culminated with the 2001 National Championship. I then watched the Ohio State vs Miami game in the Fiesta Bowl (and the greatest fallacy in CFB history >.<) and select other games from that point on and seeing the struggles, the legendary peaks and gut-wrenching valleys made me buy in wholly to this team, fall in love with this school and its players and I have been passionately bleeding orange and green ever since. Thank you for making a thread like this @troyskiles