I want to throw up...
To hell with all the corrupt City of Miami politicians who let this happen. We live in a day and age where money is all that matters and we'll sell out a hundred years of tradition for a buck. Pathetic.
The Orange Bowl teardown is underway - see photos below - and for anyone who sat in that stadium and cheered the Canes (or Dolphins) on to victory - today is a dose of reality nobody was ready for. It was one thing to 'hear' the OB would soon be gone, but watching it torn apart by machines? It's gut wrenching. These photos may as well be of a loved one on that conveyor belt going into the flames at a crematorium.
I "get" the business decision behind this as it didn't make sense to sink $200-300M into a stadium that saw use six Saturdays a year. But I don't get why 1) renovations weren't made a decade ago, before little problems became big ones and 2) why the city couldn't find something to do with the stadium the other 359 days per year. There had to be SOME want to generate some revenue here.
C'est la vie. What's done is done. One last farewell to my ol' girl the O.B. and one last F.U. to the scumbags who let this nightmare become a reality...
The Orange Bowl teardown is underway - see photos below - and for anyone who sat in that stadium and cheered the Canes (or Dolphins) on to victory - today is a dose of reality nobody was ready for. It was one thing to 'hear' the OB would soon be gone, but watching it torn apart by machines? It's gut wrenching. These photos may as well be of a loved one on that conveyor belt going into the flames at a crematorium.
I "get" the business decision behind this as it didn't make sense to sink $200-300M into a stadium that saw use six Saturdays a year. But I don't get why 1) renovations weren't made a decade ago, before little problems became big ones and 2) why the city couldn't find something to do with the stadium the other 359 days per year. There had to be SOME want to generate some revenue here.
C'est la vie. What's done is done. One last farewell to my ol' girl the O.B. and one last F.U. to the scumbags who let this nightmare become a reality...
posted by allCanes at
8:30 AM
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My wife took me to my 1 and only game I ever got to see in the Orange Bowl while we were on our Honeymoon last October.
This just made my heart hurt.
The thing that will piss me off is if the city "somehow" finds the money to build a soccer only stadium as I've heard on the net is a possibility. If the city does that, then shame on them for making the fans and players drive 30 minutes up the road to play in a pro stadium. The U gives the city part of its identity and making them move is ridiculous. I just hope we can somehow create some sort of home field advantage and not have sterile environment. We'll see. To the OB, I say thank you for the memories and being part of some great history.
-Columbus Cane
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