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If you think the integers that led Miami to pastel-slip Randy Shannon are 7-5, you guessed wrong. The pertinent numbers are 40,101 and 41,148. Those are the announced attendance figures at Sun Life Stadium, the Hurricanes' home, the past two weekends.
That Miami lost both games, to Virginia Tech and South Florida matters. That it took two games to attract as many fans as one game at the Orange Bowl used to, matters more.
It is sad to think that there are fans of the sport that are too young to remember the Orange Bowl. For more than a decade the crumbling, decrepit stadium was the greatest home advantage in the sport, if not any sport. That it also hosted a couple of the memorable NFL and college games ever played is also worth noting. Between 1985 and early 1994, Miami did not lose, not once, in the OB. Its 58-game home winning streak remains a record.
Yes, the venue was decaying nearly as fast as the neighborhood that enveloped it. But when Miami allowed the OB to be demolished, it forever imploded a sizable measure of its mystique. Sun Life Stadium, which is on its seventh name in just 23 years of service (no wonder Prince played there), is a soulless, suburban venue located a convenient 20 miles north of Miami's Coral Gables campus.
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