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Name a Miami game you missed..that turned out to be a classic?

flagator86 said:
You read it right….for whatever reason you were locked in to go to a particular Miami game to watch in person (whether yall ended up winning or losing), missed it, and you ended up missing a classic?? I mean you still (more than likely) caught it live, but missed watching it in person?

Also, DO NOT name the 2002 or 2003 Florida games…lol

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Turned out to be a good thing, but I missed the Miami home loss to Washington in 1994. First home-game I missed since enrolling in 1986.
 
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2003 at FSU (The Sean Taylor game) I was 13 at the time and my dad got us tickets and we were gonna start driving up to tally but my dad got an emergency call to work that day and ended up not going….. I remember watching Sean going off and thinking **** I coulda been there 😭
 
CaneBear0207 said:
The UCLA game in 1998. I've posted about it before. We had lost to Syracuse by a thousand points the week before, and UCLA was like #2 in the country. I was hung over, and I decided to stay in my freshman dorm in McDonald Tower (in "the other Hecht"). Edgerrin James ran for a million yards, and we came back from a big deficit to upset the Bruins. I watched on my 13" tv while my classmates stormed the field.
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I did not miss this game, although I too was hungover. My friends dragged me, thank goodness.

Did your classmates get attacked by the police dogs? I think I talked about this before, but I knew some kids who got torn up pretty badly and sued.

I can’t think of any classic games that I missed. But that same year, I was too hungover and I missed Oliver Stone’s call for extras in the OB to film Any Given Sunday, and the abovementioned friends were unsuccessful in getting me to that. I always regretted that. One of my favorite football movies.
 
I was at a family reunion when we played UCLA in 98, before we left the hotel room Miami was down big, thought the game was over, left the cookout with my uncle to see the game, caught the tail end when Miami had already came back.
 
I missed the 1992 8-7 win over Arizona that ended Rusty Medearis' career.
 
Desperado, was sitting in the garage mad as **** that we lost to Duke again. Got a phone call after the game and was like what ****, ran inside and it was all over SC.
 
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caneingville said:
I did not miss this game, although I too was hungover. My friends dragged me, thank goodness.

Did your classmates get attacked by the police dogs? I think I talked about this before, but I knew some kids who got torn up pretty badly and sued.

I can’t think of any classic games that I missed. But that same year, I was too hungover and I missed Oliver Stone’s call for extras in the OB to film Any Given Sunday, and the abovementioned friends were unsuccessful in getting me to that. I always regretted that. One of my favorite football movies.
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I missed the call for extras in Revenge of the Nerds 2 for filming at Mark Light for similar reasons.
 
Kinda in reverse I was in Atlanta for Christmas/new years and had no plans or even thought about going to the UF/UM game and my mom surprised me with peach bowl tickets for Xmas when I was 16.
 
On TV, I missed watching Edge's performance against UCLA. I was away on a family vacation (18 at the time) and couldn't watch it, only listen to it, back when radio was a thing.

I've only missed 3 home games since 2005 (Arkansas St., Ball State, and the KSU matchup). None of those were memorable!
 
Does leaving the OB at halftime of the eventual Hail Flutie game because it was basically a tropical storm count?

Sadly, we didn’t leave at halftime for the Frank Reich game.

Edit to add: I was 10 and had no say in the matter.
 
TheEye said:
1998 UCLA

I didn’t believe yet. I was sure we’d lose.

It was the beginning of the comeback.
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In retrospect, this may have been the best game ever witnessed by a crowd of just 40k at that stadium. There were high school games that drew better crowds than the one that afternoon but you wouldn't have known it to be there. Felt and sounded like the place was sold out. Running onto the field afterward just felt like the right thing to do.

I missed the 2003 Florida game and it haunts me.
 
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GrozDozer said:
Kinda in reverse I was in Atlanta for Christmas/new years and had no plans or even thought about going to the UF/UM game and my mom surprised me with peach bowl tickets for Xmas when I was 16.
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That was an *** kicking. Fun game to attend with the long returns for TDs by Parrish and Hester. Would not have guessed UF would win a title several months later.
 
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