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Cougar2000
There are some things about sports I don't like... the New Yuck Muts, the University of Michigan and those ASSCRACK UGLY HELMETS, the Floridamn Gayturds and the Miami Crimicanes. I also think that NASCRAP and professional wrestling are a HUGE waste of air time on television and would rather watch women's Jello wrestling!

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Remnants of Orange Bowl ablaze

by Cougar2000
created April 03, 2008, last edited February 10, 2009
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Well, the Orange Bowl is not going quietly. I just checked United Press International and they report that the remains of the old ballpark caught fire. No injuries were reported, thankfully and Miami-Dade Fire put the blaze out in less than 30 minutes. The cause of the fire was some wood mixed in with steel debris.

They recently tore down the site that was the stage for Doug Flutie's miracle pass against Miami, Kellen Winslow's effort in an AFC playoff game against the Dolphins, the last game played by the Miami Hurricanes, which they lost to Virginia, to make room for the Florida Marlins' new digs.

Gordon Lightfoot once wrote "Superior, they say, never gives up her dead, when the skies of November turn early." It's the grand old girl saying, "I live on." At least she went down swinging.


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Too Manny StilesVarsity Captain
633 days ago
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What does a tragic ship sinking (Edmund Fitzgerald) have to do with a stadium? Your analogies are not only poor, they are severely odd... it's April, not November, it's a fire, not a stormy lake.

What's next? The Sonics moving is akin to Space Shuttle Challenger? The nest coach to get fired is like Chernobyl?? The NIT is the Berlin Wall?


Thanks for crediting your source, though...
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Cougar2000All-American
633 days ago
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Lack of coffee, Manny. I'll have a Sonics story sometime this week. I don't think I'll mention Challenger. Meanwhile, deal with the analogies.
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Too Manny StilesVarsity Captain
633 days ago
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Fair enough... I'm dealing with them, and believe me, I love off the wall references (my wife is a huge Gordon Lightfoot fan) but I just don't get them...

Did you know: Lightfoot wrote that song and left the publishing rights to the families of the men who died in that tragedy?

That means if you want to use that song (for a movie or a commeyou have to track down all the individual people and pay them royalties yourself. Believe it or not, they're not all registered with ASCAP as songwriters...

A nice tribute, but he essentially screwed that song from ever making the money it could have. And since no one will go through the trouble of doing that, no one will ever use that song and they families will never see a dime...
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Cornfed78Draft Pick
633 days ago
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One of those players from the Hurricanes probably set it ablaze. Go ahead and minus me if you will, but you know you were all thinking it. I just posted it is all.
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Too Manny StilesVarsity Captain
633 days ago
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I wasn't thinking it, but that is DAMNED FUNNY!!! And I'll be sure to steal it and call it my own if the subject ever comes up away from the 'chair!!!


When you rip one off like that, please don't apologize! Smack talk is why many of us love sports SO much!!!
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