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We're gonna party like it's 2017..

My buddy went to the U in a 5 year regional planning program and had the crazy good fortune to be there for the 1987-1991 football seasons. His favorite is an ND game which was supposedly the one and only time they put the students in the upper deck. Over the ND fan section. What could go wrong? He said it was tough to part with expensive stadium beverages but worth it to pelt them with drinks and beat them on the field. Not sure which year was good. All were great home Ws in that era.
 
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k9cane said:
yeah, I get it, Miami doesn't draw very well on a consistent basis. Hey, this ain't Tuscaloosa or Columbus. But guess what, neither does USC unless they are really good. I see that first hand out here in Los Angeles. But when they do, the 'new' Hard Rock is as good as home field advantage as there is in college football. It becomes the 'Madhouse of Miami' on select Saturdays

I'll never forget watching Miami-Vatech at the Barney's Beanery in Hollywood (where they held Miami game watches, @CanesAreAble have been there numerous times -- sometimes as the only Canes fans there, true story). And when it looked like Miami was going to win, I blurted out, "Guys...I think I'm going to this game." They thought I was kidding. But when I got home, I booked a flight (actually found a decent one) and I was in out and out South Florida in about 18 hours or so.

Best decision I ever made

For a few hours, it really felt like Richt had brought us 'back'. It was a mirage that ended that Thanksgiving Friday at Pitt. But it was a fun ride. But that night was one of the best Ive had as a die-hard Hurricane fan. This video brought back some great memories. Every man, woman and child needs to bring their lungs on August 31 to Hard Rock...

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Had a similar story. I was in San Francisco at the time, was supposed to be there for longer. Decided the day before I was going to make the ND game, the hype was just too unbearable. I got up early as ****, and flew in to MIA, and went almost straight to the stadium. Best decision ever.
 
Fzac75 said:
No no no no

I was at those games, 10 years old for thr ‘85 game and 14 years old for thr ‘89 game and still can vividly remember those games, the night, the stadium rocking, the electricity filling the air so thick you could cut with a knife. The ‘72 team on the sidelines during the Monday Night Game, standing, watching letting the Fins team playing on that field there is no way in **** you will be allowed to leave this field without victory. The roar of the crowd when they saw the ‘72 team on the field, my old man and my Godfather (RIP) screaming and jumping like little girls as they saw them. Even at that young of an age that moment was the first time, in all my years attending Fins games as a season ticket holder with my dad since the age of 3, it was the first time I wasn’t nervously excited, I knew we were going to win, even the ‘84 AFC Title game I was nervous against the Steelers, but not this one. I am still amazed the stadium did not cave in on itself that night.

‘89 was equally as insane, though this night was rabid vengeance. I am still at awe there were no arrests of rabid fans jumping onto the field charging the sideline of the fighting frenchmen (its a **** church in France people!!) wanting to extract their pound of flesh!

Both nights that iron old girl held strong cus the noise, the intensity, the jumping up and down did all it could to bring her down onto the opposing team. It was an insane asylum overflowing with coked up psychos.


2017 was glorious and the best atmosphere by far at Joe Robbie to date but not ‘85 Bears Monday Night ‘89 vs The Fighting Frenchmen level
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People forget because now it’s just become accepted but at the time they’re a gazillion people who really ****ed at being called ******* convict by a school and team that had more arrests than Miami did because of all the race stereotypes plus the fact that we got ****ed over the year before in South Bend
2017 was ridiculous. Don’t get me wrong 89 was more personal.

That said my dad’s first game see Miami was the 2017 game, he had never been to a real college football game. Couldn’t believe what the tailgate was like still talks about how he never heard anything as loud, including when he was in Korean war with shells going off.
 
SCarolina Ibis said:
We hosted college gameday and beat our rival, which was the #3 ranked team in the nation, 41-8 in a prime time night game, after **** near everybody picked against us. The win got us to 9-0, the next day we were ranked #3. That cave troll Paul Finebaum went on his show, admitted he was wrong about us and declared that the U is back.

So as bad as it sounds, it probably is the pinnacle for our program in the last 20 years.
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I kno, and that’s sad…it was a great time but Jeeze that’s kinda pathetic
 
Ispyin said:
People forget because now it’s just become accepted but at the time they’re a gazillion people who really ****ed at being called ******* convict by a school and team that had more arrests than Miami did because of all the race stereotypes plus the fact that we got ****ed over the year before in South Bend
2017 was ridiculous. Don’t get me wrong 89 was more personal.

That said my dad’s first game see Miami was the 2017 game, he had never been to a real college football game. Couldn’t believe what the tailgate was like still talks about how he never heard anything as loud, including when he was in Korean war with shells going off.
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The CBS broadcast of the 89 Notre Dame-Miami game was incredible. They built it up as a combination of World War III and Ali-Frazier -- but only more heated and more important

 
I will say that the 1989 Miami-Notre Dame game was the most exciting, packed game that the Old Lady ever hosted, including the 1985 Bears Game, including the 1969 Jets-Colts Super Bowl.

Nothing like it before or since. 2017 came very close. It will be up to us to pack the house and be there for this team. Notre Dame will probably be favored by +5 as I expect the Sharp Money to come in heavily from Vegas for the Irish (just a hunch; my guess is that Vegas isn't buying what the Hecht is selling about Beck until they see it).
 
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Ispyin said:
People forget because now it’s just become accepted but at the time they’re a gazillion people who really ****ed at being called ******* convict by a school and team that had more arrests than Miami did because of all the race stereotypes plus the fact that we got ****ed over the year before in South Bend
2017 was ridiculous. Don’t get me wrong 89 was more personal.

That said my dad’s first game see Miami was the 2017 game, he had never been to a real college football game. Couldn’t believe what the tailgate was like still talks about how he never heard anything as loud, including when he was in Korean war with shells going off.
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What an awesome game for your dad to be his first real college football game. That’s the memory you and him won’t soon forget.
 
section9 said:
I will say that the 1989 Miami-Notre Dame game was the most exciting, packed game that the Old Lady ever hosted, including the 1985 Bears Game, including the 1969 Jets-Colts Super Bowl.

Nothing like it before or since. 2017 came very close. It will be up to us to pack the house and be there for this team. Notre Dame will probably be favored by +5 as I expect the Sharp Money to come in heavily from Vegas for the Irish (just a hunch; my guess is that Vegas isn't buying what the Hecht is selling about Beck until they see it).
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I've told people that if I had a Hot Tub Time Machine and I could go back and attend one sporting event from the past, it would either be Ali-Frazier I or Miami-Notre Dame 1989
 
k9cane said:
The CBS broadcast of the 89 Notre Dame-Miami game was incredible. They built it up as a combination of World War III and Ali-Frazier -- but only more heated and more important

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One of my all-time favorite non-bowl Miami games.

Take away from watching the replay:

Miami was jobbed on the early Notre Dame fumble at the Canes 2. Replay clearly showed a fumble. Go figure.
Miami defensive line was incredible.
Miami offensive line was good at run blocking, but not good at pass blocking. Maybe due to Erikson’s scheme.
Miami WR Dale Dawkins is slept on in Canes history. Not Top 10, but definitely in Top 11 to 15 range.

What an era for Miami football. A few plays away from five consecutive national titles, 1985-1989, or six in seven seasons, 1983, 1985-1989.
 
I took my family to that game. Hard to describe how loud it was. Never heard anything like that in any other stadium.
 
TemplarCane said:
One of my all-time favorite non-bowl Miami games.

Take away from watching the replay:

Miami was jobbed on the early Notre Dame fumble at the Canes 2. Replay clearly showed a fumble. Go figure.
Miami defensive line was incredible.
Miami offensive line was good at run blocking, but not good at pass blocking. Maybe due to Erikson’s scheme.
Miami WR Dale Dawkins is slept on in Canes history. Not Top 10, but definitely in Top 11 to 15 range.

What an era for Miami football. A few plays away from five consecutive national titles, 1985-1989, or six in seven seasons, 1983, 1985-1989.
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I met Dale Dawkins at the tailgate for the Virginia Tech game. He's a really great guy. Told me some great stories.

He, Andre Brown, Wesley Carroll and Randall Hill, were the group of WR's who came after 'the Bomb Squad' (Irvin, Blades, Perriman) and before 'the Ruthless Posse (Lamar, Hi-C, Williams and Spencer) and were really good.

It's a testament to the system (first Gary Stevens, than Erickson) that UM was running and how well they were recruiting at that time
 
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Memnon said:
My boy @toolbox had the great prediction ever calling the Bandy Pick 6

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Thread 'I Smell A Bandy Pick 6'

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Mannn what a time lol
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
We've all heard the phrase "the atmosphere was electric" about a million times in our lives. It's usually nonsense.

But that night, at the tailgate, it was ******* electric. It really felt "right" again.

And then the game happened, and I'm sure some old heads (older than me, and I'm 43) will try to tell you such and such game at the OB was louder. Bull****. TOTAL bull****. I've been to a LOT of games at the Orange Bowl. I've heard that place get as loud as it can possibly get. There's a reason my handle on here is what it is....it was the most magical place I've ever had the privilege of visiting. I miss it so much. But that night in 2017, it was just as loud as any of those OB nights. It truly was. I've told this on here before, but after the Bandy pick 6, I got my mouth maybe an inch away from my dad's ear drum, and yelled as loud as I could. I can't remember what I tried to say to him, but in a quiet setting, it'd have put him into the hospital. I probably had a BAC of .35, and I yelled as loud as humanly possible, DIRECTLY into his head. He turned, looked at me, smiled, and just shrugged his shoulders like MJ did after he hit six threes in the finals, as if to say, son, I didn't hear one ******* syllable of that.

That's how loud it was in there. He couldn't make out a single sound from someone yelling at the top of their lungs directly into his eardrum.

Simply magical. If it's half as special as it was that night, I'll remember it forever. The entire day, from waking up with Gameday, to the final whistle, was the reason we love sports and This U. There's just nothing else on earth that can match that intensity and pure jubilation.

FWIW, I have a close friend who is a ND fan. He wasn't there that night, but he has a lot of friends and family who were, and he's told me multiple times since 2017 that they all told him they've never even come close to experiencing an atmosphere at that ever in all their years of going to ND games in South Bend and multiple places across the country. Ever.
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Look, everything you say can be true.

And I won't argue, solely on a decibel-based level, because in 2017 Hard Rock had a canopy, and the old Orange Bowl never did.

But "atmosphere" is more than just noise. What is routinely discounted by people who were not old enough to have experienced Orange Bowl games in the 1980s is the hostility and anger and emotion that contributed to the atmosphere, over and above sheer "noise". The 1989 game was one year after "Catholics vs. Convicts" and the Cleveland Gary NON-fumble. It was entirely possible that murders could have been committed in 1989, and I could have committed some of them (and I'm Catholic).

Again, I won't argue decibel-levels. But were there MULTIPLE effigies of opposing players hanging from the upper deck (as with Brian Bosworth when Miami hosted #1 Oklahoma in 1986)? Was there a pre-season decision to stop scheduling games (as when Miami hosted the #20 Florida Gators in 1987)? Was there a pre-season Seminole rap (as when Miami routed #1 FSU 31-0 in 1988)? And I've already mentioned Miami hosting #1 Notre Dame in 1989.

Imagine putting a roof (or even a canopy) on THOSE games, and what decibel-level would have been attained.

You want to argue that Hard Rock had the loudest moments during the 2017 Notre Dame game, I won't dispute that. But if you want to argue for "best atmosphere", the 2017 game doesn't break the Top 5 all-time of anger and hatred and "UM atmosphere".

Sorry.
 
TemplarCane said:
Miami offensive line was good at run blocking, but not good at pass blocking. Maybe due to Erikson’s scheme.
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First year of Erickson's scheme. I knew several of our OLs at the time, I can definitely tell you that they were struggling to make the transition.
 
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