The Miami football fan base is one of the most diverse of any team. It was hard to grow up in Miami during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s without taking notice of the never-ending success and controversies surrounding college’s most infamous football team.
While going to the University of Miami myself it was inevitable for me to know tons of Miami football fans. I’ve watched some of those fans go on great success not only in sports media but also in sports agency too.
Without using names it’s easy enough to figure out some of the more well-known figures in current days sports that spent some time at the University of Miami.
What really sets things up part is all the local friends I have had growing up in South Florida that never went to the University of Miami and are some of the most loyal and crazy football fans you will find anywhere. Maybe this has something to do with the fact that South Florida had no other college teams.
Maybe it had something to do with the fact that everybody wanted to be associated with the bad boys of football. Maybe it had to do with the fact that the Miami football was just winning and everybody hated them for it. Maybe everyone just wanted to be like the Miami football team.
Nevin Shapiro to CBS4 predicts Miami football gets the "death penalty."
— Tim Reynolds (@ByTimReynolds) August 16, 2011
"What makes the Hurricanes fan base special? We embrace the hate. We are used to it."
Ultimately does it really matter? Does it bother me that major sporting publications called for the death penalty for Miami? Does it bother me that the Miami Hurricanes have been called thugs for years no matter how hard the University of Miami school Presidents tried to shake that image?
I would say not only does it not bother me but I embrace the hate. We all do. In the days’ past, everybody wanted to play at the University of Miami because they were the bad boys of football off the field and took care of business on the field.