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sstcane said:
Imagine if we played 2 min drill in the shotgun all season..... I still remember how bad Berlin was under Center then he went in Shotgun and dominated every time lol.
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More proof of Coker's inability to be a real coach. The start of the slow methodical death of our Canes, and we are just now getting revived. It feels like an eternity.
 
rsa coral gables said:
If you are a true Cane, during Florida Week the two most important words in sequence are The Comeback. ‘Nough said. September 6, 2003.

Miami starts the game with an electric 99 yard Devin Hester touchdown return on the kickoff that sets the Orange Bowl on fire. it is sheer chaos in the West End Zone. @LuCane and company are euphoric. Miami follows the electric TD with a FG and we are up 10-3. We seem ready to roll and overconfident. There is joy and early celebration on the sideline and in the West End Zone but the celebration and the team are about to fall off of a cliff.

Florida scores THIRTY ******* POINTS IN A ROW including one touchdown on a Brock Berlin fumble that is scooped and scored by Florida. Berlin was almost booed out of the stadium. He was seeking shelter. Water bottles are flying. Miami is on life support. Game seems over. We appear fatally wounded. The sideline is in disarray. Coker is pacing with his mouth open, taking his hat off and rubbing his bald head. He's yelling at Chuzinski and Randi Shannon on the headset. Players are pointing fingers. Sean Taylor is livid. Miami was laying an egg (one of many to come).

Miami is losing 33-10 with six minutes left in the third quarter. There is no way Miami can win. However, as @Empirical Cane can attest to, in the trenches of warfare, hope is the very last ideal to perish. It’s time for Brock Berlin Magic. @LuCane et al. in the WEZ implore Santeria Gods from Babalú Lukumí Ayé (a real church in Hialeah that won a Supreme Court freedom of religion case 10 years earlier)(cf. Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. Hialeah, 508 US 520 (1993)). One play at a time. One drive at a time. One defensive stop at a time. One three and out at a time.

Following a Florida three and out, Miami drives and Berlin hits Kevin Beard (yes today's WR coach) for a TD. A successful two point conversion and it's 33-18. Florida’s balls started getting tight but they are confident, except they punt again after another three and out. Berlin throws a sixty yard completion to Beard followed by a Frank Gore rushing touchdown and it’s 33-25. Florida in full panic/period form. The momentum has changed for good. Miami's and Berlin's confidence has returned.

Florida punts again after another three and out and Miami drives and scores on a Berlin to Ryan Moore pass. 33-32. Florida is seeking safe spaces and trauma counselors and maxipads. Florida punts again and Miami starts on their own 5 or 10 with five minutes left and Miami down one point. Long methodical drive with Chudzinski earning his pay. Gore runs it in after a 10 plus play drive and Miami goes up 38-33. Two point play fails.

Florida gets the ball back and we pick off a pass, we take a knee and it's game over. A historic comeback on a Saturday night at the Orange Bowl in front of the entire country. berlin runs across the field exhibiting the chocking sign to his former team. it was a moment that will last in Cane folklore for millennia. 79,932 fans witness the improbable, The Comeback.

Berlin Beard Gore on offense and Sean Taylor DJ Williams Vilma on defense were all heroes that night.

Are you going to tell me this game doesn't mean something personal to Kevin Beard?


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I was there in the WEZ.

The opening KO for a TD, was the loudest I'd ever heard a stadium. It was 1 and 1A with the Bandy INT vs. Catholics 2017.
 
dolemite79 said:
I'll never forget it, was my junior year at Arizona, Lsu came to town to play us that night and despite the wildcats sucking it was big event to get an sec team at home.

I stayed home to watch the Canes, as I did many times during my time in Arizona and got a lot of **** for it.

Lsu ripped us 59-13
And I got to enjoy one of the most thrilling games I've ever seen the Canes play.

Wish I had flown home for it
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I got confused on the 'us' fella is on a Canes board calling Arizona the us...
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One of my fond memories was having some fan behind us boo Brock (who was admittedly having a disastrous game) and my good buddy, former longtime grassy poster, stood up, turned around and started yelling at the guy calling him a non-canes fan. We went on the run soon after that. NEver give up hope, gents.
 
Sitting in the OB we started talking about heading to the Grove to drown our sorrows. My buddy said, one more series and then we'll head out...the rest is history.
 
If i recall, at the end of the game, Brock was making the gator chomp throat slash sign at the lizard bench. I never thought of it as a choke sign. I was at the time, however, a member of the Nation of Yahweh, and my robes were causing a distraction in the WEZ amongst the Santeria crowd.
 
QuattroCane said:
Sitting in the OB we started talking about heading to the Grove to drown our sorrows. My buddy said, one more series and then we'll head out...the rest is history.
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I was living in PA at the time and was at a neighborhood party, and for whatever god awful reason there were a bunch of Gaytor fans in my area. Needless to say I was getting grilled by those twits at 33-10, mixed with how intoxicated I was, I felt for their safety and my freedom that it was best for me to walk back home 4 blocks down the street. By the time I had gotten home the comeback was on, 33-18 followed by the 3 and out. I ran my drunk *** back down the street just in time for 33-25. That is where the fun began. I was the last man standing at the party!!
 
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N25.45W81.21 said:
If i recall, at the end of the game, Brock was making the gator chomp throat slash sign at the lizard bench. I never thought of it as a choke sign. I was at the time, however, a member of the Nation of Yahweh, and my robes were causing a distraction in the WEZ amongst the Santeria crowd.
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It was actually to the east endzone where the temp bleacher seats were installed, lots of gator fans sitting there.
 
dolemite79 said:
I'll never forget it, was my junior year at Arizona, Lsu came to town to play us that night and despite the wildcats sucking it was big event to get an sec team at home.

I stayed home to watch the Canes, as I did many times during my time in Arizona and got a lot of **** for it.

Lsu ripped us 59-13
And I got to enjoy one of the most thrilling games I've ever seen the Canes play.

Wish I had flown home for it
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Point is, you stayed home and watched the good guys.

I was stationed at Tyndall AFB in the Florida panhandle for 4 years, ground zero for trailerhassee fans during Bowden-mania. Couldn't get a Canes' game on TV for the life of me (before streaming services, obviously.) Listened to several games on a radio down in the hospital security room (the CMsgt was a Miami Northwestern Alum). Noles frickin' everywhere, otherwise.

That game, though, I was freshly back in south Florida. Saw it live with my 5 year old son. The family zone was in the WEZ, above the rowdy section, but not too far above.
 
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I was 9-10 at the game, grew up in the Orange Bowl on Saturdays, I remember asking my dad, in tears I was so upset, to leave when it was 33-10 with 6 minutes left in the 3rd. He said "we don't give up on our Canes, the game isn't over." This is one of the games I'll never forget, this and the Washington game are two core memories for me as a kid in the OB.
 
OP really enjoyed that. One detail to add/clarify: after Hester housed it, Sean also took a return to their 15 or 10 I believe, which resulted in the 10-3 before we went down.
 
rsa coral gables said:
If you are a true Cane, during Florida Week the two most important words in sequence are The Comeback. ‘Nough said. September 6, 2003.

Miami starts the game with an electric 99 yard Devin Hester touchdown return on the kickoff that sets the Orange Bowl on fire. it is sheer chaos in the West End Zone. @LuCane and company are euphoric. Miami follows the electric TD with a FG and we are up 10-3. We seem ready to roll and overconfident. There is joy and early celebration on the sideline and in the West End Zone but the celebration and the team are about to fall off of a cliff.

Florida scores THIRTY ******* POINTS IN A ROW including one touchdown on a Brock Berlin fumble that is scooped and scored by Florida. Berlin was almost booed out of the stadium. He was seeking shelter. Water bottles are flying. Miami is on life support. Game seems over. We appear fatally wounded. The sideline is in disarray. Coker is pacing with his mouth open, taking his hat off and rubbing his bald head. He's yelling at Chuzinski and Randi Shannon on the headset. Players are pointing fingers. Sean Taylor is livid. Miami was laying an egg (one of many to come).

Miami is losing 33-10 with six minutes left in the third quarter. There is no way Miami can win. However, as @Empirical Cane can attest to, in the trenches of warfare, hope is the very last ideal to perish. It’s time for Brock Berlin Magic. @LuCane et al. in the WEZ implore Santeria Gods from Babalú Lukumí Ayé (a real church in Hialeah that won a Supreme Court freedom of religion case 10 years earlier)(cf. Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. Hialeah, 508 US 520 (1993)). One play at a time. One drive at a time. One defensive stop at a time. One three and out at a time.

Following a Florida three and out, Miami drives and Berlin hits Kevin Beard (yes today's WR coach) for a TD. A successful two point conversion and it's 33-18. Florida’s balls started getting tight but they are confident, except they punt again after another three and out. Berlin throws a sixty yard completion to Beard followed by a Frank Gore rushing touchdown and it’s 33-25. Florida in full panic/period form. The momentum has changed for good. Miami's and Berlin's confidence has returned.

Florida punts again after another three and out and Miami drives and scores on a Berlin to Ryan Moore pass. 33-32. Florida is seeking safe spaces and trauma counselors and maxipads. Florida punts again and Miami starts on their own 5 or 10 with five minutes left and Miami down one point. Long methodical drive with Chudzinski earning his pay. Gore runs it in after a 10 plus play drive and Miami goes up 38-33. Two point play fails.

Florida gets the ball back and we pick off a pass, we take a knee and it's game over. A historic comeback on a Saturday night at the Orange Bowl in front of the entire country. berlin runs across the field exhibiting the chocking sign to his former team. it was a moment that will last in Cane folklore for millennia. 79,932 fans witness the improbable, The Comeback.

Berlin Beard Gore on offense and Sean Taylor DJ Williams Vilma on defense were all heroes that night.

Are you going to tell me this game doesn't mean something personal to Kevin Beard?


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One of my favorite throwback videos
 
McGahee2TheHouse said:
OP really enjoyed that. One detail to add/clarify: after Hester housed it, Sean also took a return to their 15 or 10 I believe, which resulted in the 10-3 before we went down.
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he took the next kickoff return 60 yards. it was either kick it to Hester or to Taylor. classic definition of a dilemma.

i wrote the initial porst on my phone when this site was broker and i couldn't use my computer. i edited it a lot. i could have written a paper on it.

sadly, i wasn't at the game. i was in the middle of the second most chaotic time in my life as i was divorcing Wife 1 and divorcing my law partners. i was a mess and saw it solo at The Sandbar in the Grove
 
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