Place Your Deposit for an Orange Bowl Urinal NOW!

The Orange Bowl's football life (well other than a Dec. 1st FIU/North Texas game, whoo!) came to a close tonight in dramatic fashion, as the Miami Hurricanes said goodbye to the old gal by being beat down by Virginia 48-0. On Thursday, it was announced the historic building would be demolished come January. All fixtures, including urinals will sold at an auction shortly after the demolition. Cause nothing says aniversary gift like a wall urinal that thousands of drunk Hurricanes and Dolphins fans have signed for you throughout the years.

It is actually sad how the Orange Bowl has slowly faded away throughout the last 20 years. It is kind of symbolic of how the Miami football program has hit the fan the last couple of years. Before 1987, the Orange Bowl may have been football's biggest venue, and not to mention the home of the Miami Dolphins and Hurricanes. It hosted more Super Bowls than any other venue until Dolphin Stadium started taking the Super Bowls placed in Miami. The most important football game of all-time was played there in 1969, when the AFL's New York Jets beat the NFL's Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III to start the push toward an AFL-NFL merger that would take place after Super Bowl IV. It also hosted the Orange Bowl from 1938-1995, and once more in 1999, hence why the building was renamed Orange Bowl in 1960. Doug Flutie's famous hail mary for Boston College was probably the most crushing moment for one its home teams at the Orange Bowl.

Since 1987, the building has really been outshined by the more state of the art Dolphin Stadium in Fort Lauderdale. Dolphin Stadium took the Super Bowls, Orange Bowls, and now both tenants, while the Orange Bowl has begun to look more and more like the old lady in the shower. Well, I say farewell to perhaps the most famous football venue of all-time. To me, the Orange Bowl is to football what Yankee Stadium is to baseball or the Boston Garden was to basketball, and this is coming from a Jets fan. Maybe I'll bid on those urinals after all, I can't think of anything better to spend a $1,000 on. Well, maybe a few. And perhaps we can get the Miami Hurricanes to be in attendance when Florida International plays the final game at the Orange Bowl. No, not to play, but for one more awesome brawl for old time sake.

Pat Morgan