Though Oklahoma fans will disagree, the nadir of the 2006 football season was the wild brawl between Florida International and Miami that was the final nail in the coffin for both Larry Coker and 'Cane announcer Lamar Thomas, who
said these infamous words:
"Now, that's what I'm talking about," Thomas said as the brawl raged out of control. "You come into our house, you should get your behind kicked. You don't come into the OB playing that stuff. You're across the ocean over there. You're across the city. You can't come over to our place talking noise like that. You'll get your butt beat. I was about to go down the elevator to get in that thing."
Thomas, who was fired milliseconds after the game ended, will be unhappy to know that evidently FIU
does just come into the O.B.:
During construction [on a new, 18,000 seat FIU stadium] this year, university and Miami city officials hope the team will play in the city-owned Orange Bowl. "The City of Miami is working with FIU on an agreement that would allow them to play their 2007 games at the Orange Bowl," Kelly Penton, the city's director of communications, said in an e-mail. "Since UM is currently our tenant, the FIU team schedule would have to work around already-scheduled UM games. We are optimistic that we will be able to work out the scheduling and have an agreement with FIU."
This is where the word "irony," so often ill-used by people like Alanis Morrissette and
Charlie Weis, can be properly deployed: how ironic.
