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This game felt like an entire fan base healing at once

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Was at the game and it will be something I never forget. I know people at home feel the same, but man the family environment in the stadium was felt. Canes fans absolutely showed up in numbers and in noise. It felt like we made up half the crowd whether we did or not. Everyone was hugging and high-fiving complete strangers, especially after that pick six. You could absolutely feel the healing and joy after 23 years.
 
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Bender said:
I cried and I've been following this team for about a decade now, slightly less than that.

I don't even want to know how some of the older guys in here felt. That must've been the best sleep y'all got in a long time.
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SLEEP?! Was reveling in the win soo much, barely realized the ball dropped.. Enjoying the tears for hours, the replay of the game came back on around 3 or 4 and by time 5 came around was like dam I gotta knock out at some point.. :ibis-roflmao-sm3:
 
skyman said:
SLEEP?! Was reveling in the win soo much, barely realized the ball dropped.. Enjoying the tears for hours, the replay of the game came back on around 3 or 4 and by time 5 came around was like dam I gotta knock out at some point.. :ibis-roflmao-sm3:
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My energy levels collapsed like 15 mins after 0:00 hit. Thought I could make it through, no chance lol
 
CreativeCane said:
Was at the game and it will be something I never forget. I know people at home feel the same, but man the family environment in the stadium was felt. Canes fans absolutely showed up in numbers and in noise. It felt like we made up half the crowd whether we did or not. Everyone was hugging and high-fiving complete strangers, especially after that pick six. You could absolutely feel the healing and joy after 23 years.
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I was there & you’re 100% correct! I almost blacked out after that pick 6. I had to sit down & drink water. The weight of that last 23 years left my body after that last score.
 
HarrietTubmanCane said:
Cane since 1989, I was 10 years old. I’m healed now, a new Canes fan emotionally and just overall. I needed that. That was an exorcism of sorts. That 2002 game haunted me. Cried several times. Went to bed at 5am, fell asleep watching the replay. I feel amazing. Refreshed.
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You know what the best part is? We have one demon slayed.

Fiesta Bowl is the other demon.
 
Bender said:
I cried and I've been following this team for about a decade now, slightly less than that.

I don't even want to know how some of the older guys in here felt. That must've been the best sleep y'all got in a long time.
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I was so ****ed and depressed after the '03 Fiesta Bowl that I couldn't even watch the rest of the NFL season and even the Super Bowl that year.

Losses I can handle. It was the way that entire game went. You saw how that team played dirty last night; they did they same back then too. Tried to take out Sean Taylor. Took out Ken Dorsey temporarily in OT, but injured his throwing arm. Successfully took out Willis McGahee. Y'all know about the flag at the end.

Yes, Coker had plenty of flaws and we wish we had a coach that would have been better and kept us ahead. But for me, it was always the disgustingly, filthy way Ohio State played that game. It takes all the fun out of it. It makes me feel like I need to go shower because one of their fat, slobbery fans just put his dirty paws on me. No one wants to play that way. Injuries happen, but they deliberately try to cause them because of their own insecure bull****. And their fanbase cheers it on, which is why the rest of the country sees the type of people they are.

Winning last night in such a dominant fashion wasn't retribution for me so much as it was validation that their filthy, spoiled, *****ass playground bull**** wasn't going to work because we were that much better than them.

They didn't even belong on the same field as us and we were always a step ahead.

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And it was the first time that I can remember that I slept through the night without waking up at least once or twice, now that you mention it. Interesting coincidence. But I had a few drinks last night and I never drink, so maybe I just need to start drinking more. ;)
 
Bender said:
I cried and I've been following this team for about a decade now, slightly less than that.

I don't even want to know how some of the older guys in here felt. That must've been the best sleep y'all got in a long time.
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I haven’t stopped smiling since last night. I am in a state of surreality, getting texts from people I haven’t spoken to in months or years.

I don’t plan on coming down from this cloud for a long, long time.
 
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Bender said:
I cried and I've been following this team for about a decade now, slightly less than that.

I don't even want to know how some of the older guys in here felt. That must've been the best sleep y'all got in a long time.
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Ain't nobody went to bed. I mean I will on the flight back but DJ Diesel was on 1s and 2s at Texas Live.
 
skyman said:
SLEEP?! Was reveling in the win soo much, barely realized the ball dropped.. Enjoying the tears for hours, the replay of the game came back on around 3 or 4 and by time 5 came around was like dam I gotta knock out at some point.. :ibis-roflmao-sm3:
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Yeah my buddy and I got back to the hotel room on a major game high. Went to watch the highlights and fittingly enough the 30 for 30 documentary was playing RIGHT at the Cotton Bowl part. Amped us up even more. Suddenly my friend goes “oh dude, happy new years.” We had no thought of 2026.
 
HarrietTubmanCane said:
Cane since 1989, I was 10 years old. I’m healed now, a new Canes fan emotionally and just overall. I needed that. That was an exorcism of sorts. That 2002 game haunted me. Cried several times. Went to bed at 5am, fell asleep watching the replay. I feel amazing. Refreshed.
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I feel this on so many levels. It feels like the pain and frustration of the last 23 years just washed away.
 
Bender said:
I cried and I've been following this team for about a decade now, slightly less than that.

I don't even want to know how some of the older guys in here felt. That must've been the best sleep y'all got in a long time.
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Yeah I had to hold back some tears I was hype for the Texas A&M game but that one last night almost got me🤣
 
I felt redemption for sure, especially since being a fan since '79. Finally went to bed at 5AM after watching highlights again and again the listening to the OBB. The Taint fans have been so smug for decades and to watch Sweatervest Trashel, Cringy Urban, and Punch Me In The Face Day win while we were in purgatory just ate me up. Last night was special from the jump. Did anyone else see Mario's comments to the field reporter just before the game? I can't remember exactly but I think it was something like we want violence, physicality, annihilation, and to do bad things to the opponent. Gotta go. Meanwhile, Day was acting like "The game is in the bag and I'm surprised UM even showed up." What a tool with his permanent eye bags. Well, he has time now to watch skincare infomercials. And watching JS and Innis chase Keonte on that pick 6 took me to my Happy Gilmore Happy Place.

Cheers to us, Eff Day, Eff Taint, on to the Fiesta Bowl to exorcize more demons! Go Canes!
 
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I'm up in the mountains in Franklin NC for New Years with my extended fam. We went snow tubing at a place called Highlands Outpost today which is in a pretty rural area. No joke, there was a dozen other ppl wearing canes gear there aside from myself. It feels fuggin great to be back to what we're supposed to be.
 
Bender said:
I cried and I've been following this team for about a decade now, slightly less than that.

I don't even want to know how some of the older guys in here felt. That must've been the best sleep y'all got in a long time.
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My first memory of football is from January 2, 1984, watching Miami win their first ship in the Orange Bowl. My fandom became official January 3, 1984, when I had my parents get me the Fort Lauderdale News & The Miami Herald so I could read about the canes in the sports sections…

I have felt more emotions these last two games than from anything else that’s happened in my life since the 03 fiesta bowl. I told my sons last night that if the canes win a national championship, they’re gonna see their dad ugly crying like a little girl.
 
I grew up in Big 10 Notre Shame lands, and been with the Canes since I was 10 in 91. I love this school and program. Got to enjoy watching this with my 18yr old daughter. It was such a great moment we got to share together, and of course her talking **** online afterwards.

Loved everything about last night.
 
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