"Downhill"? In South Florida? Lol, is there such a thing?
I thought someone might comment on that. It actually was strangely downhill, in fact quite a bit downhill. Other Orange Bowl regulars might remember that. The street leading toward the stadium on the south side, aiming more or less smack toward the press box, was not level. In fact the apartment complexes on the east side of that street were at such an apparent slant that I remember the terrain taking me at an increased pace as I passed the guys leaning on their balconies.
Then it was uphill on the way back but you didn't care because you had just witnessed another victory.
We never got season tickets for the Dolphins once they relocated to the Robbie Bowl. It was never a consideration, considering the location and caliber of that venue. Patchwork is not going to fool many people.
Regarding junc's comment, yes the Orange Bowl held roughly 80,000 in its heyday. The base bowl seated maybe 76,000 then 4000 auxiliary seats were added to the east end zone due to ticket demand during the early '70s glory years. Those seats remained for many years. It was funny to wander into them during Canes games on Friday night with sparse crowds. Virtually nobody was in those seats. When the Canes played the Irish my friends and I used to bring anti-Notre Dame banners and hold them up under the scoreboard, which was just above the level of the top row of the auxiliary stands. The Notre Dame highlight show on Sundays always showed a glimpse of the scoreboard after Notre Dame scored. But during those early '70s games they couldn't show the Orange Bowl scoreboard. Not once. We always had a banner up there that said, "Notre Dame s***s" and similar. You can imagine. We always laughed that we were impacting the highlight program, which was very famous during that era.
Those 4000 seats were removed later in the '70s once the glory era ended and ticket demand wasn't as high.
