Last tango in Miami

 
By Berry Tramel | Published: August 16, 2007    Comment on this article Leave a comment

The Miami Hurricanes come to Norman this September, and the Sooners return the favor in 2009. I wish the dates were reversed.

When OU goes to Miami, the 'Canes might no longer play in the fabled Orange Bowl.

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The Orange Bowl in Miami (shown here in 1975) hosted the Orange Bowl Classic through 1996. An OU-Miami game in 2009 would be much better at the Orange Bowl than in Dolphin Stadium. MIAMI DEPT. OF PUBLICITY AND TOUrism

Miami trustees meet Monday and are expected to discuss moving away from the stadium built in 1937 and home to so many epic football games. The option lies 16 miles north, to Dolphin Stadium, which hosts the Orange Bowl Classic.

The Orange Bowl stadium is decaying, and it's in a seedy part of town, and an estimated $200 million is needed to renovate the coliseum.

It's doubtful Miami U. will vote to remain in the Orange Bowl, which means the Sooners would play in the antiseptic Dolphin Stadium, where they've played Florida State and USC in national-title games this decade.

Dolphin Stadium is football's Comiskey Park. Built in 1987, it resembles the cookie cutters of the 1970s (Riverfront, Three Rivers, Veterans) more than the cool coliseums of recent vintage.

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