I thought it was well done. For me it was more of a celebration of those great teams of the 1980's rather than an exposure of a renegade program. Then again, it all depends on which side of the fence you were on back then. There was no grey area. It was all black and white. You either loved Miami, or you hated Miami.
Billy Corben did a great job and educating today's youth on how Miami became Miami and how they were the most successful program, not only over the course of that nine year period, but also the most successful program over a 25 year period.
I don't want to drag race into this but back then white America wasn't prepared for what was going on in Miami. Football was really taking shape back in the 1980's with baseball being the more popular sport. And here you have these inner city black kids who have came from nothing and never had anything getting a chance to show themselves in a national spotlight and they took advantage of it. The dancing, the trahs talking, the violence off the field, the arrests...all of that is what helped Miami win titles because it was such an intimidation factor. You were beat before you took the field.
People today want to call college football and the NFL "pansies" or whatever for trying to take the fun out of the game. Now, you see that many of the unsportsmanlike conduct penalties you see today were made due to these Miami football teams. I'm not a big fan of trash talking and all that—I think I've made that clear in every Joey Porter thread here on FinHeaven, but anyone who see that documentary last night seen how much fun it was to talk ****, hit people in the mouth, and let them know about it.
Miami fans, don't become a prisoner of the documentary. Understand that those days are long gone and they're never coming back. Too much has change for it to ever be that way again. Watch that video simply for a trip down memory lane. I seen so many threads on the Mainboard last night started by Hurricane fans after that documentary and you'd have thought we had just won the national title the way dudes were talking **** over there. We are now but a shell of those great teams. Sad, yes, but it is what it is.
By the way, my only complaint about the film is that I could have done without seeing the Orange Bowl being torn down. It brought a few tears to my eyes and the new girl I've been seeing for roughly a week just couldn't understand and I couldn't explain it lol.
RIP
11.10.2007
Billy Corben did a great job and educating today's youth on how Miami became Miami and how they were the most successful program, not only over the course of that nine year period, but also the most successful program over a 25 year period.
I don't want to drag race into this but back then white America wasn't prepared for what was going on in Miami. Football was really taking shape back in the 1980's with baseball being the more popular sport. And here you have these inner city black kids who have came from nothing and never had anything getting a chance to show themselves in a national spotlight and they took advantage of it. The dancing, the trahs talking, the violence off the field, the arrests...all of that is what helped Miami win titles because it was such an intimidation factor. You were beat before you took the field.
People today want to call college football and the NFL "pansies" or whatever for trying to take the fun out of the game. Now, you see that many of the unsportsmanlike conduct penalties you see today were made due to these Miami football teams. I'm not a big fan of trash talking and all that—I think I've made that clear in every Joey Porter thread here on FinHeaven, but anyone who see that documentary last night seen how much fun it was to talk ****, hit people in the mouth, and let them know about it.
Miami fans, don't become a prisoner of the documentary. Understand that those days are long gone and they're never coming back. Too much has change for it to ever be that way again. Watch that video simply for a trip down memory lane. I seen so many threads on the Mainboard last night started by Hurricane fans after that documentary and you'd have thought we had just won the national title the way dudes were talking **** over there. We are now but a shell of those great teams. Sad, yes, but it is what it is.
By the way, my only complaint about the film is that I could have done without seeing the Orange Bowl being torn down. It brought a few tears to my eyes and the new girl I've been seeing for roughly a week just couldn't understand and I couldn't explain it lol.
RIP
11.10.2007
