k9cane
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I have very few regrets in life, not going to Miami vs Cal in 1990 in Berkeley is one of them. Because our guys put on a show that began the movement for the 'Miami Rule' (which was cemented after the Cotton Bowl that season)
This was after the shocking loss to BYU in Provo, and our players got an earful from the likes of Michael Irvin and Jerome Brown how they didn't play 'Hurricane Football' (which meant not just dominating, but celebrating and getting buck wild). So yeah, this game they did everything from the 'George Jefferson' to 'the Humpty Hump' and 'Troop. It was actually where I think Dennis Erickson started to kinda understand how tough this job was
He got called into the principals office by Tad Foote and Co, after that game and was told to control the guys -- and quite frankly he really never could. So the next game vs a good Iowa team at the Orange Bowl, our guys would do fake high-fives, shake hands after first downs(right in front of Erickson, too), to mock this edict, LOL. Yeah, our guys were renegades -- but funny ones. But I remember watching clips of that Erickson press conference where he had to say he was curbing the dancing and taunting. It was a sad day in American history.
I had a high school classmate who didnt even really like football who attended Cal-Berkeley, on the first trip back home for Thanksgiving I see him and he says something to the effect: "Holy shhhh, Miami, those guys are crazy. Especially that (Randall) Hill guy." He was laughing because he was thoroughly entertained, probably the only football game he has ever remembered, I bet
Anyways, that 90 team should've won it all. Claude Jones told me it was still the most talented team he was on at Miami but he said something was just off that whole season. Im still in disbelief they lost twice. They were the best squad in the country.
But here's the full game link (I couldn't find the shortened version I had seen years ago). Don Cornelius would've given our whole team the game ball with the stuff we were doing. Back then, Miami was more than just great football. They were sports and entertainment at it's finest:
This was after the shocking loss to BYU in Provo, and our players got an earful from the likes of Michael Irvin and Jerome Brown how they didn't play 'Hurricane Football' (which meant not just dominating, but celebrating and getting buck wild). So yeah, this game they did everything from the 'George Jefferson' to 'the Humpty Hump' and 'Troop. It was actually where I think Dennis Erickson started to kinda understand how tough this job was
He got called into the principals office by Tad Foote and Co, after that game and was told to control the guys -- and quite frankly he really never could. So the next game vs a good Iowa team at the Orange Bowl, our guys would do fake high-fives, shake hands after first downs(right in front of Erickson, too), to mock this edict, LOL. Yeah, our guys were renegades -- but funny ones. But I remember watching clips of that Erickson press conference where he had to say he was curbing the dancing and taunting. It was a sad day in American history.
I had a high school classmate who didnt even really like football who attended Cal-Berkeley, on the first trip back home for Thanksgiving I see him and he says something to the effect: "Holy shhhh, Miami, those guys are crazy. Especially that (Randall) Hill guy." He was laughing because he was thoroughly entertained, probably the only football game he has ever remembered, I bet
Anyways, that 90 team should've won it all. Claude Jones told me it was still the most talented team he was on at Miami but he said something was just off that whole season. Im still in disbelief they lost twice. They were the best squad in the country.
But here's the full game link (I couldn't find the shortened version I had seen years ago). Don Cornelius would've given our whole team the game ball with the stuff we were doing. Back then, Miami was more than just great football. They were sports and entertainment at it's finest: