What I’ve seen in this exercise is that most of CIS became Cane fans during or after our glory days.
There are a number of us that suffered through times that would make these last 15 years seem like great times but us old guys did get to witness guys like the Matador George Mira,The Stork Ted Hendricks ,Jim Otto one of the best centers to ever play, Ottis Anderson ,Jim Burt Fred Marion ,Chuck Foreman,Bill Miller ,Rubin Carter and others that I’m sure I’m forgetting...times that were soooo bad that to get a ticket all you had to do was buy a whopper....I’ve run the gauntlet as to being there through the good,the bad,the really good and the really bad times but not once in those 62 years have I ever been tempted or thought about being a fan of any other team but the University of Miami.
I’m proud to say I’ve been a Cane since I was 6 in 1958 when those f’n turds beat Miami 12-9 ( I think that was the score.was a loooong time ago ) and I swore from that day on I’d hate the Fla.Gators and true to the words of a young kid I’ve hated them all my life.
I will be a Cane fan until the good Lord above deems my days are over no matter what happens on the field between now and then.
I just wish all you had had a chance to see some of the greats I mentioned above.Miami Hurricane football didn’t start in 1983 it just reached its pinnacle that year but it had a whole lot of greats that gave it everything they had trying to do the same thing that team in ‘83 did long before then.