So long Orange Bowl!

[BAMF cowboy]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2984425

Hurricanes will now play home games at Dolphin Stadium.

I'm sad to see this happen, we're gradually losing more and more great college football landmarks.

Thoughts?

[DrEdward]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2984425

Hurricanes will now play home games at Dolphin Stadium.

I'm sad to see this happen, we're gradually losing more and more great college football landmarks.

Thoughts?

Shalala has managed to move miami games farther away from their campus to a much nicer and larger stadium. This means the crowds will look even smaller in a larger stadium than they typically did in the Orange Bowl. Too bad that the City of Miami would not/could not redo the OB.

[drgnbkr]

Shalala has managed to move miami games farther away from their campus to a much nicer and larger stadium. This means the crowds will look even smaller in a larger stadium than they typically did in the Orange Bowl. Too bad that the City of Miami would not/could not redo the OB.

The city of Miami has Baghdad-like issues.....

[slorch]

The city of Miami has Baghdad-like issues.....

lack of leadership?

[svfootball45]

the dolphins field sucks.
who wants to play football on a baseball field.

[jtk1519]

I'm sad to see this happen, we're gradually losing more and more great college football landmarks.

Thoughts?

It would be sad were college football actually losing such a landmark. They aren't. The Orange Bowl is an absolute dump. It has been for years. How it's still standing is a mystery because the stadium is literally falling apart.

[jtk1519]

the dolphins field sucks.
who wants to play football on a baseball field.

You got it flipped. Dolphins Stadium is a football stadium and always has been since it was opened in '87. It wasn't until the early 90s that they made a few changes to make it possible to play baseball there, but it has always been a football stadium and that is very apparent when you watch a baseball game there. Watching football there however, it's almost impossible to tell baseball is also played there.

[SLC93]

Sad from a nastalgia viewpoint but the Bowl's a dump.

[svhorns]

You got it flipped. Dolphins Stadium is a football stadium and always has been since it was opened in '87. It wasn't until the early 90s that they made a few changes to make it possible to play baseball there, but it has always been a football stadium and that is very apparent when you watch a baseball game there. Watching football there however, it's almost impossible to tell baseball is also played there.

Agree... I went to a Marlins game 2 summers ago... it is a football field...

[PeterGibbons]

The last time I went to see a game at the OB was a Dolphins game in the early 80's when I was a kid and it was dump then. I can only imagine how bad it's gotten since then. Also, the area it was in was FAR from a nice place, put it this way... if it's not game day, you DO NOT want to be anywhere close to it!!

I hear it was a nice stadium at one time, but not in my lifetime! It really is a shame the city of Miami never kept up with it. Hence the reason Joe Robbie moved the Dolphins north to a nice area and a much nicer stadium.

I say good riddance Orange Bowl

[F18mustang]

Weren't they trying to build a new baseball stadium for the Marlins next to the Orange Bowl?