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When crowds packed the OB for HS games...

Golsen82 said:
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MedleyCane said:
We moved into the Miami area in the early 1970s.
It's football culture was not unlike what you see today in the small southern and Texas towns.
Youth football was pretty big too.
There was an Optimist football game played at the OB which also drew alot of folks, between 20 and 30k.
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Makes sense as Miami was indisputably a Southern town at those days
 
Coach Macho said:
I feel like community investment/camaraderie/pride began to fall as South Florida became more and more transient.
Gentrification, people moving in from other states, etc etc etc...
Most of the people who live here AREN'T EVEN FROM HERE. So why would there by any community pride and fanhood?
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Spot on as usual coach.

A few years back, I had this conversation with an friend of mine who'd grown up in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960's where there were three black high schools before integration. I mentioned all this transferring you see kids (with parental approval) doing these days.

He just shook his head. "That wouldn't have happened back then. If you left to transfer to one of the two rival schools, you better never come back home. If you did, guys would've been waiting on the corner for you."
 
Applecane said:
Fascinating...
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It is.
If you have Facebook account, I would recommend joining the "Ghosts of the Orange Bowl" page. Lots of historical stuff on soFla football, baseball, hoops, including local high schools, colleges, NFL and Orange Bowl Classic stuff.
I think the person who runs that page used to work for local TV station, so he posts alot of old interviews and highlights as well.
I also like that he sheds some historical light on the black high school and college games and personalities which had been historically under reported. Especially stuff on Jake Gaither, Walt Frazier, old ***** League baseball personalities including folks who were kin to latter day stars like Warren Cromartie, James Colzie and Andre Dawson, etc. Lots of sports culture in South Florida. It's not just the Miami Heat and that so-called "Wade County" rubbish.
 
Fzac75 said:
Gotta understand locally at the tme here outside of UM there was nothing else really, outside of spring ball at Bobby Maduro. Fins came in ‘66 and were irrelevant until Shula showed up. Canes were a mid program, and in Florida high school at that time Miami High and Gables were the football powerhouses.
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Growing up in the 1970s, I used to listen to sports radio in my room while doing school work. Listened to WKAT who had Sonny Hirsch and Chris Myers hosting local sports talk. Hirsch was a long-time announcer for UM athletics and he was associated with the Miami Orioles, single A franchise for Baltimore. So he did a lot of baseball talk as well UM stuff. Myers later became local TV anchor and later worked for ESPN before becoming based out of soCal. He was classmates with David Shula at Chaminade HS, so he talked a little about local sports plus interviewed the Miami Dolphin players. On the other radio station you had Hank Goldberg and Rick Weaver. Weaver did play-by-play for the Fins and the old Ft Lauderdale Strikers. So basically in those days pro sports was confined to Fins, Strikers, Yankees, Dodgers (from the old Brooklyn folks), horse and dog racing, Jai Alai and occasional UM stuff. The audience being some local and many snowbirds. We had to wait for spring training to get interviews with players. We did get Atlanta Braves baseball games on one of the other stations but they were terrible, although I like their announcers. Really, it was a different era. Front page of local papers showing Fins, Strikers, HS sports and some UM stuff.
 
Hold My Beer said:
Makes sense as Miami was indisputably a Southern town at those days
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We originally lived on 68th street in Hialeah.
On Friday and Saturday nights, you could hear stock cars roaring at the local Hialeah Speedway a few (two?) miles away right around twilight.
Quite a few future NASCAR greats cut their teeth on that track, including the Allison family who I think were known as the "Alabama Gang" but who actually lived in northwest Dade (Palm Springs North area).
Yeah, it was a little different back then.
 
MedleyCane said:
We originally lived on 68th street in Hialeah.
On Friday and Saturday nights, you could hear stock cars roaring at the local Hialeah Speedway a few (two?) miles away right around twilight.
Quite a few future NASCAR greats cut their teeth on that track, including the Allison family who I think were known as the "Alabama Gang" but who actually lived in northwest Dade (Palm Springs North area).
Yeah, it was a little different back then.
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The good ole days…there was Dale Bennett the Mayor of Hialeah, confederate flags flew in Hialeah like they did in South Carolina, there was Hialeah Speedway, Follies International and Mae & Dave’s on Palm Avenue. How many of you remember that !
 
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MedleyCane said:
Growing up in the 1970s, I used to listen to sports radio in my room while doing school work. Listened to WKAT who had Sonny Hirsch and Chris Myers hosting local sports talk. Hirsch was a long-time announcer for UM athletics and he was associated with the Miami Orioles, single A franchise for Baltimore. So he did a lot of baseball talk as well UM stuff. Myers later became local TV anchor and later worked for ESPN before becoming based out of soCal. He was classmates with David Shula at Chaminade HS, so he talked a little about local sports plus interviewed the Miami Dolphin players. On the other radio station you had Hank Goldberg and Rick Weaver. Weaver did play-by-play for the Fins and the old Ft Lauderdale Strikers. So basically in those days pro sports was confined to Fins, Strikers, Yankees, Dodgers (from the old Brooklyn folks), horse and dog racing, Jai Alai and occasional UM stuff. The audience being some local and many snowbirds. We had to wait for spring training to get interviews with players. We did get Atlanta Braves baseball games on one of the other stations but they were terrible, although I like their announcers. Really, it was a different era. Front page of local papers showing Fins, Strikers, HS sports and some UM stuff.
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Back when golf was a spring sport in HS (now it's fall) many of us fb coaches "coached" golf too. Vince Zappone was the Chaminade coach in the 70's and golf coach in mid 90's, long story short, he and I would ride around when we had a golf match with Chaminade and he told of a playoff game they had vs Glades Central sometime when David Shula was there...huge brawl breaks out, both benches emptied, cops on the field and all of a sudden like Moses parting the Red Sea, Don Shula is in the middle of the field separating both teams
 
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