{"id":117,"date":"2007-11-09T19:28:49","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T19:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2012-05-11T03:21:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T03:21:08","slug":"the-end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"the end of an era."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight (well, early tomorrow morning), the Miami Hurricanes will play their last game ever in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orangebowlstadium.com\/pages\/\">Orange Bowl<\/a>.  The now-rickety steel structure has seen 70 years of Hurricane Football.  A lot of mediocre years, then some really good years, a few bad years, some really good years, and now some more mediocre years.  Among the bad years: the 1997 season, my freshman year, when the Hurricanes went 5-6 (only three of those five wins were at home: Temple, Arkansas State, and Rutgers).  But three years later, you had &#8220;The Drive&#8221; against FSU, and Wide Right III.  What a game.  Too bad I missed half of it because I had a kidney stone.<br \/>\nAnd it hasn&#8217;t just been UM football that&#8217;s created memories in that stadium.  The Orange Bowl bowl game was played there until the mid-90s, so it&#8217;s seen plenty of national championship games.  Plus decades of Miami Dolphins football, including the perfect 1972 season.  Plus five Super Bowls.  Plus concerts.  And more.<br \/>\nTonight, plenty of <a href=\"http:\/\/hurricanesports.cstv.com\/sports\/orange-bowl\/spec-rel\/102507aab.html\"> former Hurricane greats<\/a> will come back, to help say farewell to the OB.  I assume we&#8217;ll take the smoke, the cannon, and everything else with us to Dolphin Stadium.  We&#8217;ll be leaving behind the place that witnessed the NCAA-record 58-game home winning streak.  But we will take with us the memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight (well, early tomorrow morning), the Miami Hurricanes will play their last game ever in the Orange Bowl. The now-rickety steel structure has seen 70 years of Hurricane Football. A lot of mediocre years, then some really good years, a few bad years, some really good years, and now some more mediocre years. Among the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,17,20],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-football","tag-miami","tag-nablopomo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}