Orange Bowl

Okay, So what's the deal with getting rid of the Orange Bowl? Isn't the stadium one of those monuments that isn't supposed to get touched and last forever? That's what it's always seemed like but for the past month, the stadium has been undergoing serious renovation and will surely be missed.
For years it has served as home field of the Miami Hurricanes and at one point was even home for my Alma Mater and the Stingarees.
Great games, including Super Bowls and concerts have been held here. Experiences like late nights of trespassing into the stadium with friends were cool. Who can forget the conversations with strangers about floods, lack of electricity and gasoline in South Florida while waiting in a line that stretched around the stadium, for ice and bottled water, after Hurricane Wilma.
Intangibles like interning for The Orange Bowl Committee and performing on the field for my first Homecoming Game, will forever be cherished.
Hopefully it will all continue in 2011 when the stadium re-opens as the Home of the Miami Marlins....that's right. Not Florida Marlins but Miami Marlins, as contracted with the City of Miami.
I must admit I like the sound of Miami having its very own 37,000 seat retractable roof baseball stadium.

Anite and I during demolition of The Miami Orange Bowl. This picture was taken after half of the stadium was destroyed and shows the only partial part still standing.

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