Orange Bowl Finale

[Dr. Jack]

Orange Bowl Finale

Celebrating 70 years of South Florida History

Coach Shula & Coach Schnellenberger
will be in attendance

On Saturday, January 26th, some good friends, old and new, are showing up to bid “Farewell to the Orange Bowl Stadium” and you won’t want to miss it! Enjoy FREE autograph sessions, championship marching bands, and a fun-filled flag football game between Dolphins and Hurricanes heroes!

See Pro Football Hall of Fame members Dan Marino and Jim Kelly square off one more time, along with Miami Hurricanes and Cleveland Browns legend Bernie Kosar, and many more Miami Dolphins and UM greats, including current Dolphins superstar Jason Taylor.

And these stellar alums will be led by the greatest of coaching Legends – the Hurricanes’
Howard Schnellenberger and the Dolphins’ Don Shula!

There is a flag football game between old Dolphins and Hurricanes this weekend before they tear down the OB. So who do you like in this thriller?
• Coach Don Shula
• Dan Marino
• Joe Rose
• A.J Duhe
• Kim Bokamper
• Jim Kiick
• Earl Morrall
• Jim Cefalo
• Jef Dellenbach
• Dwight Stephenson
• Don Strock
• Mike Kozlowski
• Mark Duper
• Tony Nathan
• Jim Jensen
• Dick Anderson
• Larry Little
• Troy Stradford
• Nat Moore
• Jason Taylor
• John Offerdahl


• Coach Howard Schnellenberger
• Jim Kelly
• Steve Walsh
• Bernie Kosar
• Gino Torretta
• Ken Dorsey
• Craig Erickson
• Greg Mark
• Cleveland Gary
• Jim Burt
• Lamar Thomas
• Randall Hill
• Andre Brown
• Bobby Harden
• Bennie Blades
• Brian Blades
• Darrell Fullington
• Bill Hawkins
• Melvin Bratton
• Eddie Brown
• Twan Russell
• Fred Marion

[Ron Mexico]

Got a line?

[Dr. Jack]

Well Marino has a leg injury but says he can still sling it.

I would say Dolphins -7.5

[mark12]

Who are all those QB's gonna throw to for the Cane's? Guess all the good RB's and WR's are in jail or too strung out to make it. Not enough footballs to keep all the QB's happy.

Fin's win

[WildKat]

Never heard of any of these players

[Chris46139]

Lol at Randall Hill playing for the Canes not the Dolphins. I still get sick about how many first round picks they wasted over the years

[Dr. Jack]

Originally Posted by Chris46139

Lol at Randall Hill playing for the Canes not the Dolphins. I still get sick about how many first round picks they wasted over the years

Randall was a stud for the Canes and a dud for the Fish. lol

[actionsportscentral]

Get Jason Taylor outta there! What a ringer......
Marino & JT win easily.

[Chris46139]

Originally Posted by Dr. Jack

Randall was a stud for the Canes and a dud for the Fish. lol

I was so excited when they picked him too Expected big things

[Dr. Jack]

Canes win 65-51

Former Hurricanes, Dolphins and about 12,000 fans came to say goodbye to the Orange Bowl on a sun-splashed Saturday filled with nostalgia and reminiscing.

And for two hours during a flag football game, it was almost like entering a time capsule. There was Dan Marino zipping passes over the middle, his lightning-quick delivery still intact. There were Mark Duper, Joe Rose and Jimmy Cefalo streaking downfield in pass patterns. And there was Bennie Blades grabbing an interception, just as he did for the Hurricanes.

Marino threw four touchdown passes, including two to Dolphins defensive star Jason Taylor. But the Dolphins (all retired except Taylor) lost to a team of former Hurricanes 65-51 in a seven-on-seven game that highlighted a day of merriment.

''It's a shame we're not going to have the Orange Bowl anymore,'' said Marino, who played the first four years of his career there. ``It meant a lot to a lot of people.''

Snapshots from Saturday's seven-hour celebration:

• After catching Marino's fourth touchdown pass, Randal Hill ran out of the end zone and into the tunnel, just as he did for UM at the 1991 Cotton Bowl.

''I never had a chance to do that here,'' Hill said, adding his preference was to run to the top of the stadium and open a parachute. ``I'm totally against them tearing it down. This is my house. I think I will chain myself to one of the bulldozers.''

Hill, Lamar Thomas and Bernie Kosar -- who all played for the Dolphins and Hurricanes -- switched teams at halftime.

• In a game played on a 50-yard field, Marino played the first three series and ended each with touchdown passes (two to Taylor and one to Tony Nathan). He then left, with the Dolphins ahead 20-14, and didn't return until 8:05 remained in the game.

• After Marino departed, Don Strock threw interceptions that were returned for touchdowns on the Dolphins' next two series -- by Twan Russell and Brian Blades.

JOKING COACHES

''You won't see Strock in the ball game anymore,'' Don Shula, who was coaching the Dolphins team, told the crowd at halftime. Shula noted Marino had knee surgery recently ``and that's why I took him out.''

Howard Schnellenberger, coaching the Hurricanes team, jokingly told the crowd that UM's MVP for the game was Strock.

Schnellenberger, who coaches Florida Atlantic, said his goodbyes to the OB at November's FIU-FAU game. ''Today, I look at it as selling the furniture and disposing of the body,'' he said.

• The Dolphins quarterbacks in the second half were Kosar (who threw a touchdown pass to Blades for UM earlier in the game), Jim Jensen and Marino.

MIXED EMOTIONS

• UM, which had six quarterbacks, opened with Jim Kelly, who threw a TD pass to Thomas on UM's first series.

Thomas felt a mix of emotions Saturday: ``I'm happy, but really, really sad.''

• Brian Blades had two interception returns for touchdowns (on passes from Strock and Kosar) and caught three TDs passes.

''We gave the fans what they came here to see,'' Blades said.

• Duper played in one series, was the target of a deep ball from Marino (''great pass but I couldn't get to it'') and left because of a bad back. He said Mark Clayton, living in Dallas, couldn't attend because his child was ill.

• Chants of ''Shula'' filled the stadium as he walked on the field for a tribute to the 1972 team.

• The OB's final event will be an auction Feb. 9. The stadium then will be demolished during several months.

[TCD619]

Was The Rock there?

[Dr. Jack]

Originally Posted by tdiddy619

Was The Rock there?

I think he is to busy making movies

[BigdaddyQH]

Interesting way to bring down an old stadium. A sad day in the history of Miami. The oddity is that either one of those two teams could beat the current 'Cane or Dolfish teams.

[Dr. Jack]

Originally Posted by BigdaddyQH

Interesting way to bring down an old stadium. A sad day in the history of Miami. The oddity is that either one of those two teams could beat the current 'Cane or Dolfish teams.

Sad but good point. lol

[Dr. Jack]

On a nice note:

Brian Blades did not kill anyone