I see it as a chance to go screw it up for Gators fans as much as possible. Booing each and everytime they say the name Gators and have some fun in my Canes gear
The field is 50 feet from the Broward County line.......just saying. The Canes had a chance to partner with the Marlins and co own the new stadium being built but they did not want to anti up the dough...
Yep! Mr Ross will learn to stop listening to whichever in his PR crew came up with this one because it's not going to do much for his pockets.
That's a good point, the field is a bit up North now. Regardless- it seems like a bad idea and as to the stadium issue, I don't blame UM in the least for not wanting to pony up money for one when they can use this one, whatever they're calling it this year. Canes/Dolphins in the Orange Bowl all those years, now both teams in the current stadium- bringing in the Gators to the mix just seems odd, short sighted and a painful marketing reach.
Gators fans are all over the stadium as it is. I do disagree that Pouncy has nothing to do with it though. I'm almost certain that drafting him gave whatever dummy in the PR department an idea to do SOMETHING Gatorish ....
Totally agree! Canes FANS never liked the idea of playing there though. That I can tell you for sure.
The problem is that Ross if from somewhere else, and he clearly doesn't understand the sports-fan dynamic at all. I doubt he was even a sports fan before he bought the Dolphins.
I think he is from here actually. I do know he grew up a Dolphins fan. Not sure how big of one but he said he's been a fan since they began. I just think he is trying to be TOO open minded about things. He better learn quick that what he needs to do it pony up tons of cash for quality free agents so his team starts winning consistantly. Then he'll see what a full and rockin stadium means...
Oh who gives a ****? We cant have a Canes renunion beacause we only have 2 Canes on the Roster. We have no Seminoles on this team. Christ people are ****ing stupid.
Have an Ohio State day. Hurricane fans will *****, Gator fans will laugh, and Florida State fans will miss field goals to the left and right...
I didn't realize Ross went to UF. That's another pretty big connection. Should we expect a Michigan day for one of their 11 titles?
I think you're way off base if you think it didnt originate from Pouncey. We dont do this w/o our recent 1st round pick being big name among those championship teams. If you think we are going to do this for a backup QB w/o and connection to the team... you're wrong.
Dee announced during the telecast of Saturday's Dolphins exhibition game that the team would honor the 2009 Gators when the Denver Broncos visit Sun Life Stadium on Oct. 23. Starters on the team that won that title at Sun Life include Broncos backup quarterback Tim Tebow and Dolphins rookie center Mike Pouncey. Former Florida coach Urban Meyer has agreed to participate in the celebration. The plan sparked an angry backlash from UM supporters on sports talk radio shows and social media sites such as Twitter. More than 76 percent of respondents to an unscientific poll on SunSentinel.com agree that it was "a ridiculous misread of the market." Just over 12 percent voted in support of the idea. "Are we surprised, yeah, maybe a little, given the fact that these schools don't play every year," Dee said. "I know they both have very passionate fan bases. We certainly root for the 'Canes. They are a partner of ours, a tenant of ours. "As it relates to having to aggressively market the Dolphins and tickets to our games, we have to be agnostic. We can't not reach out to Dolphins fans who are also Gators fans and try to give them an incentive and a reason to come to a Dolphins game." The NFL lockout and two consecutive 7-9 seasons by the Dolphins have added to the difficulty of selling tickets for this season. Dee said that lagging sales for certain games have created the possibility that some home games could be blacked out on local television. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-dolphins/fl-dolphins-gators-tebow-0829,0,4215353.story
Just another instance that shows how clueless the people running this thing are in fan experience. Next they will whipe out a whole couple of sections and replace them with a ball room/disco tech.
I live as far away as possible from Miami, I am not a 'Canes fan nor a Gators fan, totally objective. I think the idea is ****ing stupid.
All of this outrage from the Canes faithful has no basis. The Hurricanes are a tenant. No more, no less and and they don't even show up for their own home games. The Gators won the national championship at the Orange Bowl and the Dolphins management thinks they can parlay that into one less blacked out game. Please grow up everyone.
Agree with some of it but Canes fans also never wanted to go to Joe Robbie Stadium in the first place.
This entire idea baffles me… I don’t understand how they can have a reunion 300+ miles from the location of the institution. I would think most Gator fans are fans of the Jags.. so what then, Ross might fill up his proshops with Jaguar merchandise? Everyone sees this and a UM UF thing….Regardless the big picture I see is that this is obviously an event surrounding Tebow. Tebow is a Denver Bronco…. A BRONCO. So we basically are celebrating the opposing team’s player on Dolphin turf. I don’t agreewith this at all.
True. Unfortunately, we die-hard 'Canes are fans of a school which would rather RENT its future than own it.
The reunion is in the stadium where the Gators won the national championship. I can't see how Tebow likes this at all. Maybe they'll pass out clip boards for the 1st 1000 in the gate.
Sick and tired of these cheap gimmicks. celebrity owners, Jimmy Buffet, new (horrible) theme songs, Club LIV and everything else that has nothing to do with the actual Miami Dolphins. If we just won... we would fill the seats
This is a story about good intentions gone wrong, about a team miscalculating its market and about bad timing. Ultimately, this is a story about an idea that should have been killed in the meeting room before it ever had a chance to escape and blow up on the Miami Dolphins. Mike Dee was working damage control Monday. He is the CEO of the football club and its stadium. He is the man who liked the idea and approved honoring the 2008 national-champion Florida Gators during the Dolphins’ Oct. 23 home game against Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos. Or you could put it like this: Dee is the man who OK’d honoring the Gators on the Miami Hurricanes’ home field. Most Hurricanes fans see it like that, and the backlash has been quite fierce, an instant grassroots fire as it tends to be in the new Twitterverse. “The depth of it is probably a little surprising,” Dee admitted Monday. http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/08/29/2381122/miami-dolphins-shouldnt-host-florida.html
It says I guess I just don't get it. The last time the Gators played at the home of the Canes they won a national championship. What am I missing?
Living in Colorado, btw, can't wait until it starts snowing, I really dont see a big deal about it. It's not my fight, but if I was a owner looking at 5 of my 8 home games being blacked out, I'd do everything I could to sell tickets. But then again, who the hell is going to buy a ticket JUST for the halftime?
I’m a Florida State alumnus so please forgive my indifference. I still have wide right nightmares if you know what I mean.
LOL.... What kind of logic is this? Not to mention 2 Cane players on the roster is 1 more player than we have from Florida. Kind of kills that argument.
I don't see anyone here being ones that are outraged so you can save the "grow up everyone" for others. If you remove yourself from the fan view of this and just look at the idea at it's concept it's very flawed. Professional marketers that are hired by this team should be smart enough to know this would cause dissention within it's own fan base. Never a good idea. Why would you even go there in times where you're fighting to retain all the fans you have. A good marketer knows it's base and how they will react. It was a dumb idea. In addition, if a proffessional sports teams marketing dept. feels it needs to throw a party for a college football team to sell tickets....... it's time to fire the marketing team. I'm not in an uproar over this, just pointing out the obvious which is this is a dumb idea and they fully should have expected a backlash. Fail....
The Dolphins are in danger of having at least 5 games blacked out. So I understand putting anything together to cause a stir to hopefully get people out to the stadium.
