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tittttiMiiM m6mhim ihIM 6tt6 7 4 THE ORANGE BOWL A 1 fl MONDAY JANUARY 2 1995 4 ti THE HERALD For faithful the tears of frustration turn to joy nostalgia here I ve watched every Orange Bowl since I came from Cuba in the very upsetting that After an evening spent wildly cheering Jerry Rogers of Coconut Creek was emphatic: The game is the thing ask for a better' said Rogers 29 is college football at its very best go wherever they move They could play on the beach and be Herald staff miters Dexter Filkins Christina Samuels and Ana Menendez contributed to this report During the game many longtime Orange Bowl veterans paused to look around at the old stadium second-guessing the decision to move the Orange Bowl game to Joe Robbie Stadium after next season The feelings were mixed not going to miss the Orange Bowl too cramped crazy in here Joe Robbie Stadium is just a lot said Burt Cook of Miami Martha Figueredo a 1972 Gables High grad declared her loyalty to the aged stadium is more than a game tonight because a lot of Bowl in 1971 and 1972 Hurricane fans confident in their OB pre-eminence were deflated by the dismal last quarter Tommy Bar-one said went to UM and expected to win and win big I expected a blowout but the best team wins and tonight Nebraska was the better Less gracious was Skip Golden-berg: is still the better team convinced of Earlier in the game the Husker fans discouraged despite repeated missed opportunities Seven shirtless Comhusker and I understand said Grano who was dragged along by a UM fan But she was a very small minority Earlier in the game Hurricane fan Arnold McCall talked about the Orange Bowl magic which always seemed to come through for the Hurricanes hard to describe but just a burden on the other team If you come here you better take that intangible into said McCall as he heckled Comhusker fans Lincoln Nebraska McCall yelled fans displayed their massive torsos no check that their sagging guts each printed with a letter of just decided to get said letter Nebraska senior Pat Small drove 30 hours in a van together from Nebraska to come down There was eight inches of snow on the ground when we said Small adding: Nebraska you are bom a Husker fan There is nothing Amid the tumult was one quiet eye in the hurricane Elizabeth Grano diligently reading a novel interest me FANS FROM 1A offense which finally came through at the end team is awesome I can hardly scream said Sidney Ford who drove 2200 miles from Lincoln never lost faith in my team I knew they were gonna come had to overcome unbelievable odds to beat Miami in Miami tough to do They dug deep and found it said Bill Kosch a Com-husker ho said he played for the last two national championship Nebraska teams in the Orange is pleased to honour Miami City Ballet with a Gala Evening and Fashion Show January 1 0th DANGEROUS FLYOVER: The Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros Circus show was only a few minutes long but packed in plenty of acts including several trained tigers and a human cannonball Putting a big bang into halftime Human cannonball elephant parade make minicircus a success sidelines near the crowd my goodness Oh oh Look at the said Eloise Mayfield of Aurora Colo never seen anything like this and seen a lot of halftime The clean halftime show must have been a relief for John Pugh owner of the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros Circus At a rehearsal Friday Pugh had worried that all the stadium distractions might disturb the animals particularly the tigers is a first for said Pugh then about the halftime performance do it logistically is a big The challenge was met if Mary Anne Battis-tini of Merrillville Ind was any judge Said Battistini: is Herald staff writers Dexter Filkins Ana Menendez and Christina Samuels contributed to this report By DAVID HANCOCK Herald Staff Writer The truth about halftime shows? A lot can go wrong when you have hundreds of hastily rehearsed performers thousands of technical details and 10 minutes to make it wonderful for millions of viewers Throw nine elephants six tigers a human cannonball and a comedy bear act and really asking for trouble But this halftime show went off without a hitch either human or animal The tightrope walkers stayed on their bicycles and the human cannonball hit his air pad If the tigers were less than cooperative the elephants came through with flying colors walking agreeably on two legs across the stadium The pound-packing pachyderms which Nebraska Coach Tom Osborne had fretted might leave holes in the field paraded on the For further information please call Nora Weinreich at 305-532-4880 ext 251 Big night for Big Red: Canes fall flat in the end Nebraska had the field position but Miami owned the field Until Schlesinger cut loose Once then twice And then it was over Like a blanket falling on the stadium EOWL FROM 1A Brook Bemnger It until Little picked off Berringer on an inexplicable passing try from the four by the nation's best running team that Frazier came back in Then down down down went the Hurricanes For every down natural laws say there is an up Just past Sunday midnight all the verticals stood favor They all had to change in the last 7 minutes 38 seconds Until then it was night Until then it looked like another of those nights that must have seemed endless to faithful and persevering coach Tom Osborne another night when the Big Eighters just could not handle a Miami passing attack Osborne must have felt his stomach tighten even worse than most times in the Orange Bowl when Little picked off Berringer the end zone The Huskers had thrown from four after a snafu on a punt set them up there And when they failed it seemed they must be out of chances a little Osborne said later in his understated wav Looks a lot better now a man with a lot of Osborne said I talk about it much like to express my thanks to God and to plavers who have worked so He added wryly had a terrible time with this bowl and these Miami teams and with Florida State down As for the national championship: they give it to us It was an awful way for Miami to lose snatching defeat from the jaws of victory be very grateful and we certainly will take it home but regardless I will always be proud because to beat Miami with three more turnovers than they give you that is simply It was especially tremendous after the way Miami was running away from Nebraska for so long Nebraska was supposed to be faster and catch Trent Jones and Jonathan Harris on their catch-and-run touchdown capers of 35 and 44 yards Nebraska was supposed to be better on pass defense and for the longest time it was the same old story: The Big Eight handle passing especially when Frank Costa is as hot as he was in the first quarter offensive line was a load and Outland Trophy winner Warren Sapp still went through it so fast that one Comhusker was seen flying along behind him hanging onto his jersey like the tail of a kite Now to make things worse Sapp a junior may be gone to the National Football League as indeed so may Coach Dennis Enckson and runner James Stewart if we are to believe the latest wave of Miami rumors Just before halftime when Lawrence Phillips took a short pass from Berringer Sapp reached out and jerked him down one-handed by the throat of his jersey how it went most of the night i EmroeM Emnm OFF LOWEST TICKETED FEICE OFF LOWEST TICKETED FEiCE OFF LOWEST TICKETED FEICE i EI1TI0E STOCK ATHLETIC SHOES EE3TI0E STOCK SR SP00TS APPAOEI EnTIElE STOCK SPOniiHC GOODS 8883 HOWARD DRIVE 305-255-6501 Please recycle this newspaper Slot dcasj ten ted (wrmwl te Oak (sasiy tel He 11395 fteetisd tin 2 1st day el 1995 STCRt HOUSES: ti ALL SAUS FINAL! 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