The Miami Orange Bowl was owned by the City of Miami, not the University of Miami, whose main campus is in Coral Gables. Look into the story of how the Marlins finagled their way into the site after a deal was in place to renovate the stadium. That deal completely soured the use of public funds on stadiums in South Florida for the next generation. Also, the lack of renovation is why the Dolphins left in the 80's.
Miami is reaping the consequences of their decision now with no one still giving a shit about the Marlins. Would have been way better to put that money into renovating the Orange Bowl. Would have cost less and been a better overall decision because it was a great home-field advantage for U of M. Hard Rock is not a college atmosphere and just doesn't work for the Canes.
So many locals had so many awesome memories in that building and on those grounds, me included. Many grown men cried the day it was demolished for Marlins Stadium. Thanks for this video. Great channel! I never thought I cared so much about stadiums until I found your channel! Keep up all the great content!
Bro great job churning out the interesting content…I mean The Orange Bowl ! Palm tree backdrop was the most Beautiful in NFL history , and that “Astro turf” they had that would literally dry as you watched the games …
Main problem was the stadium was 100% owned by the City. UM simply had a lease there, as they now do at Hard Rock. With only 6 games a year, it drew very little revenue to the city to pay for any upkeep, as the school kept most revenue from game days. USC's stadium in LA has same problem, as city owns it. Nearly every school in the country owns their stadium on campus and can easily fundraise for it.
i live a few blocks away form the site and tearing the OB down is a crime! people should spend life in prison for this!!! the current baseball stadium that replaced the OB is an absolute eye sore, it is TERRIBLE in every single way.... a new stadium is not being built, the donor to fund it is on his way to prison which is on fitting for this program. refurbishing the OB doesn't stroke anyone's ego and that's all miami sports fans are... if it doesn't glorify their name they don't care, they'd rather spend that money being seen with players at fancy clubs
I've been watching a lot of the Miami games from the 80's and 90's this offseason. I hated seeing this piece of history get demolished! I wish the stadium could've been preserved somehow. It was huge mistake tearing this down and hurt Miami football in the end.
As a lifelong canes fan it always bothered me what they did to the O.B & I 100% agree that open end zone w/ the palm trees & scoreboard always looked so cool to me & really what's happened to college football in general over the last decade plus is really sad & pathetic w/ all the conference changing etc, etc it'll never be as great as it used to be.
How sad,as a South Florida sports and concert fan all my old venues are gone,the o.b.,miami stadium, ft.lauderdale stadium, the sportatorium and the sunrise musical theater is now a church 😮
Mayor Manny Diaz told me out of his mouth, that as long as he was Mayor of Miami, the Orange Bowl would be here! That was the lie he told me on the sideline!
You definitely need to research Miami’s infrastructure was horrible, the county owned the OB, and the local government didn’t send the money to renovate it and the Dolphins moved to Miami Gardens to own their own stadium only for the county to spend taxpayers money to build marlins stadium it’s was smart in the long run because traffic would be even worse than it is now.
Orange Bowl is best known for the Don Shula 2 Super Bowl Championships. Miami Dolphins and the perfect 17-0 season. Also Dan Marino whole career. The U is a small private university. Not for sure what the donor wealth base is. I do remember Warren Sapp complain when he was with the Bucs about the U. He use to say every year the U comes to the pro alumni players and ask for money. At the time Michael Irvin, Sapp and others were making decent contributions. If they have rich alumni they are probably not contributing. The football programs seems to be getting by since the dominate 80's. Probably the main reason so many 3 to 5 star players have left southern Florida for other states. Through the years you look at almost any speed athlete at other Universities and they came from south Florida.
You obviously aren't from Miami because everything you said is BS. We all know the Orange Bowl from the Hurricanes not from the Dolphins. The Orange Bowl is where Miami set the NCAA record for longest home winning streak of 58 games that still stands today. It was always louder for big Miami Hurricanes games than any Dolphins game. Yes it was a piece of s*** but it was our piece of s*** especially after the Dolphins left in 86. However I am truly happy with the Hard Rock arrangement because they have made that stadium feel like our own whenever we play there we even have our own wing of the stadium dedicated to the school. Hats off to the Dolphins organization, They have shown us nothing but love And it makes it easily the best college/pro marriage in a stadium in the country unlike some other places like Pittsburgh.
@@ChrisWilliams-gw6qm I never said the Hurricanes had a disadvantage at the Orange Bowl. All I said is Dan Marino played more years and Joe Robbie, Hard Rock, whatever stadium than the Orange Bowl.
The Orange Bowl wasn’t a campus stadium. It was closer than Sun Life to be sure but it’s not anywhere near UM. They were just renters of the City of Miami.
Inside the bowl section. Awesome college football experience. Go to the bathroom? God no. There was what? 4 bathrooms on the lower level? About as many concessions.
That rendering of a potential stadium at Tropical Park was horrible. Disgusting FLAT lower bowl with the first rows FAR away from the field. What is it with the anti-fan agenda in newer stadiums? It can feel like you're sitting in a parking lot having to look horizontally through a long distance to see the game. Want to see how close fans should be to the field? Check out Oklahoma State.
The truth isn’t that the University of Miami is too far from campus. A 45 minute drive is not that much time for a football game. Florida State has 50% of their fans travel more than 2 hours one way for football games. That is the farthest of any FBS Program. We have a new generation that is less interested in tailgating & actually going to games overall. FSU’s Doak Campbell Stadium actually has less official seating; which now is down to 79,000+. However, the Florida vs Florida State game last year was the most ever attended football game in Doak Campbell Stadium’s history. With an attendance of 87,000+ people at the game. Currently, FSU has lots of sky boxes & the Champions Club in the South End Zone. Which, allows FSU to put people & at the end of this (2023) season: The Westside Stands will be torn down & not available for the 2024 season. The Concourse will look extraordinarily different when the 2025 season starts & FSU will offer 5 different types of seatings in the stadium. FSU Westside would be more reflective of a NFL Stadium. The Eastside Stands will get a facelift & allow 2 more inches to each seat. The Concourse will change throughout the stadium to reflect the same changes in the underbelly to match the Westside concourse. Doak Campbell is a 75 years old Stadium. The official seating will drop to 70,000+, but that does not mean FSU will not be capable of exceeding 80,000+. There will be a Wow! Factor to the old girl. The Sky boxes will also see significant upgrades with unique changes to that South End Zone that had mass changes after the 2013 National Championship. FSU brought Morgan Chase in due to Seminole Boosters Inc. being brought into the Athletic Department. In 2021 FSU athletics generated $87 million before Conference & tv revenue is added. That revenue was not being completely tapped into & Morgan Chase will utilize their skills brining additional funds online. While financing the project that will be completely paid off in 5 years. There will not be a roof over the stadium, but the roof will be installed in the underbelly. 🏈
If the City of Miami Had atleast 20-30× More Surface Area Than it Currently does, U.M. Could Easily Build 90-110k Câpacity Stadium ! With No Problems or With No Traffic Issues . WHY! BECAUSE a City Like Miami Being Limited of Land and Set Around Water makes things Very Hard ! Miami is 55 Square Miles Surface Area 42nd Biggest City in the Country ! Had Miami Been about 350-380 Square Miles, They Could Build The Hurricanes a Massive Stadium With No Issues Around Miami-Dade County With No Problems,More Surface Area=More Land and Space Wider+Bigger Roads&Streets.
Grew up in that place. The OB was truly magical
Definitely legendary!
Same my cousin played in the 80’s and my dad worked the concessions
😢😢😢
The Miami Orange Bowl was owned by the City of Miami, not the University of Miami, whose main campus is in Coral Gables. Look into the story of how the Marlins finagled their way into the site after a deal was in place to renovate the stadium.
That deal completely soured the use of public funds on stadiums in South Florida for the next generation.
Also, the lack of renovation is why the Dolphins left in the 80's.
Miami is reaping the consequences of their decision now with no one still giving a shit about the Marlins. Would have been way better to put that money into renovating the Orange Bowl. Would have cost less and been a better overall decision because it was a great home-field advantage for U of M. Hard Rock is not a college atmosphere and just doesn't work for the Canes.
@@user-lh6pf9rh5rcorrect, but most people don’t know about the details that you mentioned
City of Miami should've rebuilt the Orange Bowl..💯
I wish they just rebuilt it exactly the same way ! I miss the canes playing here. What I would do to have it back. Hard rock doesn’t come close
Such a Classic Stadium!
The City of Miami Welcomes You to the Orange Bowl.
I worked there for a couple of seasons. Miss the old lady.
So many locals had so many awesome memories in that building and on those grounds, me included. Many grown men cried the day it was demolished for Marlins Stadium. Thanks for this video. Great channel! I never thought I cared so much about stadiums until I found your channel! Keep up all the great content!
The loudest, most rocking dump in all of college football. It's a mecca who should still be around.
R.I.P. to the OB!
Bro great job churning out the interesting content…I mean The Orange Bowl !
Palm tree backdrop was the most Beautiful in NFL history , and that “Astro turf” they had that would literally dry as you watched the games …
Love the history lesson DG. Keep ‘em coming 🙂
Main problem was the stadium was 100% owned by the City. UM simply had a lease there, as they now do at Hard Rock. With only 6 games a year, it drew very little revenue to the city to pay for any upkeep, as the school kept most revenue from game days. USC's stadium in LA has same problem, as city owns it. Nearly every school in the country owns their stadium on campus and can easily fundraise for it.
My question is why didn’t UM buy the Orange Bowl from the city
@@brandonblanco8379The Orange Bowl was a dumpy old rust bucket. Renovations wouldn't have been worth it.
If I were in charge I would've had a major renovation to it. It would be close to what some of the other classic college stadiums are.
The football program struggled because of rules violations and punishment from the NCAA. Not because of the stadium
So many great memories and games there! 🙌🏼
The city messed that up
i live a few blocks away form the site and tearing the OB down is a crime! people should spend life in prison for this!!! the current baseball stadium that replaced the OB is an absolute eye sore, it is TERRIBLE in every single way.... a new stadium is not being built, the donor to fund it is on his way to prison which is on fitting for this program. refurbishing the OB doesn't stroke anyone's ego and that's all miami sports fans are... if it doesn't glorify their name they don't care, they'd rather spend that money being seen with players at fancy clubs
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I've been watching a lot of the Miami games from the 80's and 90's this offseason. I hated seeing this piece of history get demolished! I wish the stadium could've been preserved somehow. It was huge mistake tearing this down and hurt Miami football in the end.
Black Sunday 1977 had the Goodyear blimp crash down on to the field.
As a lifelong canes fan it always bothered me what they did to the O.B & I 100% agree that open end zone w/ the palm trees & scoreboard always looked so cool to me & really what's happened to college football in general over the last decade plus is really sad & pathetic w/ all the conference changing etc, etc it'll never be as great as it used to be.
How sad,as a South Florida sports and concert fan all my old venues are gone,the o.b.,miami stadium, ft.lauderdale stadium, the sportatorium and the sunrise musical theater is now a church 😮
As a life 🧬 long Canes fan they ripped our hearts out for a f... Baseball field that Marlin's suck at baseball every since.
Mayor Manny Diaz told me out of his mouth, that as long as he was Mayor of Miami, the Orange Bowl would be here!
That was the lie he told me on the sideline!
I grew up down the street from the OB lots of memories . The Marlins aint doing shit why not buy them out !
And to think Bruce Dern almost wiped the place out with his Goodyear Blimp at Super Bowl 10.
The Orange Bowl was also used as "Joe Robbie Stadium" in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
-Hard rock is too far for the students.
-marlins don't even get sold out attendance until they go to the playoffs, which they hardly do
Hard to go to games when tickets are expensive
Sun life is a soulless pile of steel and plastic.
You definitely need to research Miami’s infrastructure was horrible, the county owned the OB, and the local government didn’t send the money to renovate it and the Dolphins moved to Miami Gardens to own their own stadium only for the county to spend taxpayers money to build marlins stadium it’s was smart in the long run because traffic would be even worse than it is now.
The rock played for the Miami hurricanes and h’e played in the orange bowl
I would have tried to give this college football venue a massive overhaul.
And what powers or influence do you hold? lmao
In an alternate universe, the Marlins leave Miami and the Hurricanes get major overhaul of the Orange Bowl...
No the downfall was when we got cheated out of back to back nattys in 02 😡🤬
You seem to hate hard rock yet you haven’t even been to it.
Games there were so fun!
Orange Bowl is best known for the Don Shula 2 Super Bowl Championships. Miami Dolphins and the perfect 17-0 season. Also Dan Marino whole career. The U is a small private university. Not for sure what the donor wealth base is. I do remember Warren Sapp complain when he was with the Bucs about the U. He use to say every year the U comes to the pro alumni players and ask for money. At the time Michael Irvin, Sapp and others were making decent contributions. If they have rich alumni they are probably not contributing. The football programs seems to be getting by since the dominate 80's. Probably the main reason so many 3 to 5 star players have left southern Florida for other states. Through the years you look at almost any speed athlete at other Universities and they came from south Florida.
Dan Marino played more years at Joe Robbie Stadium (as it was called when he played) then the Miami Orange Bowl.
You obviously aren't from Miami because everything you said is BS. We all know the Orange Bowl from the Hurricanes not from the Dolphins. The Orange Bowl is where Miami set the NCAA record for longest home winning streak of 58 games that still stands today. It was always louder for big Miami Hurricanes games than any Dolphins game. Yes it was a piece of s*** but it was our piece of s*** especially after the Dolphins left in 86. However I am truly happy with the Hard Rock arrangement because they have made that stadium feel like our own whenever we play there we even have our own wing of the stadium dedicated to the school. Hats off to the Dolphins organization, They have shown us nothing but love And it makes it easily the best college/pro marriage in a stadium in the country unlike some other places like Pittsburgh.
@@ChrisWilliams-gw6qm I never said the Hurricanes had a disadvantage at the Orange Bowl. All I said is Dan Marino played more years and Joe Robbie, Hard Rock, whatever stadium than the Orange Bowl.
@@mikevanriel7573 I wasn't replying to you, I agree with what you said homie.
@@mikevanriel7573 My comment was towards kenneththegolden
Miami orange Bowl damage from Hurricane Wilma in 2005
They should have put that money towards a new football stadium. Because they'll sell out games better than baseball.
The Orange Bowl wasn’t a campus stadium. It was closer than Sun Life to be sure but it’s not anywhere near UM. They were just renters of the City of Miami.
You know they are building a new stadium in coral gables right????
Problem is the stadium wasn't on campus even the orange bowl
Dallas lost three SB's there. Good riddance.
It had turned into a dump.
Inside the bowl section. Awesome college football experience. Go to the bathroom? God no. There was what? 4 bathrooms on the lower level? About as many concessions.
Hard Rock was awesome for the canes in terms of aesthetics, orange seats etc
Not they play in a stadium owned by the Seminole casino
Why couldn’t the city of Miami update the Orange Bowl to present day standards at the least?
With inflation and housing crisis the only way florida teams will get a stadium is private funding.
It was old. It made Soldier Field look good
The Orange Bowl was the best!
That rendering of a potential stadium at Tropical Park was horrible. Disgusting FLAT lower bowl with the first rows FAR away from the field. What is it with the anti-fan agenda in newer stadiums? It can feel like you're sitting in a parking lot having to look horizontally through a long distance to see the game. Want to see how close fans should be to the field? Check out Oklahoma State.
They built the baseball stadium for Marlins
The truth isn’t that the University of Miami is too far from campus. A 45 minute drive is not that much time for a football game. Florida State has 50% of their fans travel more than 2 hours one way for football games. That is the farthest of any FBS Program. We have a new generation that is less interested in tailgating & actually going to games overall. FSU’s Doak Campbell Stadium actually has less official seating; which now is down to 79,000+. However, the Florida vs Florida State game last year was the most ever attended football game in Doak Campbell Stadium’s history. With an attendance of 87,000+ people at the game. Currently, FSU has lots of sky boxes & the Champions Club in the South End Zone. Which, allows FSU to put people & at the end of this (2023) season: The Westside Stands will be torn down & not available for the 2024 season. The Concourse will look extraordinarily different when the 2025 season starts & FSU will offer 5 different types of seatings in the stadium. FSU Westside would be more reflective of a NFL Stadium. The Eastside Stands will get a facelift & allow 2 more inches to each seat. The Concourse will change throughout the stadium to reflect the same changes in the underbelly to match the Westside concourse. Doak Campbell is a 75 years old Stadium. The official seating will drop to 70,000+, but that does not mean FSU will not be capable of exceeding 80,000+. There will be a Wow! Factor to the old girl. The Sky boxes will also see significant upgrades with unique changes to that South End Zone that had mass changes after the 2013 National Championship. FSU brought Morgan Chase in due to Seminole Boosters Inc. being brought into the Athletic Department. In 2021 FSU athletics generated $87 million before Conference & tv revenue is added. That revenue was not being completely tapped into & Morgan Chase will utilize their skills brining additional funds online. While financing the project that will be completely paid off in 5 years. There will not be a roof over the stadium, but the roof will be installed in the underbelly. 🏈
As i said for the last few years O.B. Should've just gotten Renuvated.
If the City of Miami Had atleast 20-30× More Surface Area Than it Currently does, U.M. Could Easily Build 90-110k Câpacity Stadium ! With No Problems or With No Traffic Issues . WHY! BECAUSE a City Like Miami Being Limited of Land and Set Around Water makes things Very Hard ! Miami is 55 Square Miles Surface Area 42nd Biggest City in the Country ! Had Miami Been about 350-380 Square Miles, They Could Build The Hurricanes a Massive Stadium With No Issues Around Miami-Dade County With No Problems,More Surface Area=More Land and Space Wider+Bigger Roads&Streets.
Where Are Ventura started his search for snowflake