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  Orange Bowl Stadium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Orange Bowl Stadium is a stadium in the City of Miami, Florida, near downtown.
The Orange Bowl college football bowl game is named for the stadium, although it has been played at Dolphins Stadium since 1996.
The stadium has a regular capacity of 74,177, and can seat up to 82,000 for concerts and other events where additional seating can be placed on the playing field.
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 Orange Bowl Stadium -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Orange Bowl Stadium is a (A large structure for open-air sports or entertainments) stadium in the City of (additional info and facts about Miami, Florida) Miami, Florida, near downtown (additional info and facts about Miami, Florida) Miami, Florida.
It is the home stadium for the (additional info and facts about University of Miami) University of Miami Hurricanes (Any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal) football team.
The (additional info and facts about Orange Bowl) Orange Bowl (additional info and facts about college football) college football (additional info and facts about bowl game) bowl game is named for the stadium, although it has been played at Dolphins Stadium since 1996.
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 COLLEGE FOOTBALL NOTE
EST in the Orange Bowl stadium, which was home to the game for its first 62 years before moving to Pro Player Stadium for the January 1st, 1996 game between Florida State and Notre Dame.
It is a one-year arrangement, according to a contract with the Orange Bowl Committee and the city of Miami.
Due to the number of factors involved, the Orange Bowl Committee decided to be safe and switch the venue, instead of monitoring the progress of the Dolphins.
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 Super Bowl III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Super Bowl III was the third AFL-NFL Championship Game in professional American football, but the first to officially bear the name "Super Bowl" (The two previous AFL-NFL Championship Games would retroactively be called "Super Bowls" as well).
The New York Jets entered Super Bowl III with an 11-3 regular season record, but barely defeated the Oakland Raiders, 27-23, in the AFL Championship Game, after recovering a fumble on their own 27-yard line with less than two minutes left.
While the Orange Bowl was sold out for the game, the live telecast was not shown in Miami due to both leagues' unconditional flout rules of the time.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Super_Bowl_III   (1821 words)

  
 Orange Bowl - College Bowl Game - VL of Sport
The Orange Bowl began as the Palm Festival in 1933 in Florida.
Not only is the Orange Bowl a college football game, it is the name of the football stadium in Miami, Florida the game is played in each year.
The Orange Bowl was built from December 1937 thru 1938.
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Four national championship games were put together by the Orange Bowl Committee in the 1980s, largely due to the strength of the Big Eight Conference and the arrival of the University of Miami on the national scene.
The Orange Bowl had continued to host top-ranked teams as the '90s opened because of the continued strength of the Big Eight and one of its emerging teams.
The Alliance awarded the Fiesta Bowl the national championship in 1996, the Sugar Bowl in 1997 and the Orange in 1998.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Orange Bowl at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Originally constructed in 1935, this stadium has been the selected site for several Superbowl games, the annual Orange Bowl college football game, and is often used for concerts and other events that require a large facility and a warm climate.
The Orange Bowl is a large stadium located at 1501 N. Third Street, between 14th and 16th avenues, in Miami Florida.
The Orange Bowl is a landmark among stadiums mainly because of its history.
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 Encyclopedia: Orange Bowl Stadium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Orange Bowl Stadium is a stadium in the City of Miami, Florida, near downtown Miami, Florida.
The Orange Bowl is an annual college football game that is usually played on January 1 in Miami, Florida.
Marlins Stadium Location: Miami, Florida, USA Tenant: Florida Marlins Owner: Miami-Dade County Architect: [[HOK Sport + Venue + Event]] Cost: $420 million Opening: 2008 The Ballpark will include a retractable roof, approximately 38,000 seats of which 3,000 are premium seats, and 62 luxury suites.
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 Orange Bowl
The stadium initially was named after one of Miami's oldest pioneers, Roddy Burdine, before becoming Orange Bowl Stadium in 1959.
The original stadium, with a seating capacity of 23,330, soon outgrew itself and in 1944 stands were added to the endzones bring capacity to 35,030.
The Orange Bowl has hosted five Super Bowls, the most recent on January 21, 1979, when the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Dallas Cowboys, 35-31, in Super Bowl XIII.
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 INVISIBLE STRUCTURES, INC. -- Grasspave2
Orange Bowl Stadium, owned by the City of Miami, was in need of improvements in order to retain the Hurricanes as an attraction.
Having lost the NFL's Miami Dolphins as an Orange Bowl tenant several years ago, the City was not about to sit idly by.
"At the Orange Bowl, there was limited existing storm drains that we more or less graded to, but we didn't have the funds for a new storm drainage system, which would be the ideal situation.
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 The Columbus Online Community - Columbus Telegram   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Everyone that participated in the Orange Bowl 50 years ago, from both Nebraska and Duke, was invited to return for a reunion on Jan. 4.
When Torczon was a Husker, the Orange Bowl was not the sight of the National Championship - it was host to a battle between Atlantic Coast Conference and Big Seven Conference representatives.
Oklahoma was undefeated in the conference that year and beginning what became a 47-game win streak, but it had appeared in the 1953 Orange Bowl after the 1952 season and was not eligible to play in the bowl in consecutive years.
www.columbustelegram.com /articles/2005/01/03/sports/sports1.txt   (924 words)

  
 Iowa Hawkeye Football - Road to the Orange Bowl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The land was sold to the city of Miami, which built a baseball stadium and, eventually, a football stadium on it.
The stadium was used for four Super Bowls and was home to the Orange Bowl football game until 1996, when the game was moved to Pro Player Stadium.
James Snedigar said Orange Bowl Stadium was made for football and for Florida's weather.
www.kcrg.com /hawkbowl/article.aspx?art_id=48673&cat_id=84   (331 words)

  
 FedEx Orange Bowl >> OB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The 75,000-seat stadium has hosted numerous world-class sporting events, such as the 1988, 1994 and 1999 Super Bowls, the 1997 and 2003 World Series and the 2001 FedEx Orange Bowl National Championship game.
The stadium, originally called Dolphin Stadium, was the first of its kind to be constructed entirely with private funds.
The conversion included the installation of retractable seating on the north side of the stadium, the construction of the baseball press box in the southwest corner of the facility, the building of the dugouts, the addition of 660 new lights suitable for night play and the installation of an electric disappearing pitcher's mound.
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 Orange Bowl Odds - College Football Lines - Football Bowl Games
Once the Rose Bowl established itself on the West Coast, it was no surprise that other groups would follow the formula.
The first city to take on the challenge of hosting a major bowl game was Miami, in January of 1933, and in 1935, their game became the Orange Bowl.
The Orange Bowl in 1965 became the first major bowl game to be played at night and it's been a night game ever since.
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 Orange Bowl Tickets - Buy Cheap Orange Bowl Tickets - Orange Bowl Bowl Game Ticket
Orange Bowl tickets provide football fans with the opportunity to witness live two of the nation’s elite teams do battle with national title implications at stake, and enjoy the excitement of South Florida’s largest tourist attraction, all while experiencing the warm tropical climate of Florida in January.
Orange Bowl tickets have given football fans the chance to see fifteen national championship teams, including six since 1991, more than any other Bowl game in the country.
In 2005, Orange Bowl tickets gave fans the chance to watch two Heisman Trophy winners in action, when USC quarterback Matt Leinart matched up against Oklahoma’s Jason White.
www.gotickets.com /sports/college_football/bowl_games/orange_bowl.php   (711 words)

  
 Orange You Just Crushed? - 1948
The Orange Bowl Committee, he told the team with pride, had invited KU to play in the Orange Bowl on New Year’s Day, 1948.
Evans, who had used the Orange Bowl to extend his NCAA record for most passes without an interception, saw his number (42) retired a month after the Miami game; the first time in KU’s history that such an honor had been paid to an athlete.
The 1948 Orange Bowl was also the last KU game for Coach Sauer, who left Lawrence less than two months later to coach football in the greener pastures of the United States Naval Academy.
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 Miami, UM dealing for plan to revitalize Orange Bowl Stadium
Maritza Gutierrez, a member of the city's Orange Bowl Advisory Board, chaired by Commissioner Joe Sanchez, said her group supports the university's oversight of such a study.
When the university's football team is not using the stadium, it is often used for concerts, soccer matches and festivals.
The Orange Bowl has an annual operating budget of $1.7 million and the city spends about $1.2 million in capital improvement there every year, city staff said.
www.miamitodaynews.com /news/021226/story6.shtml   (633 words)

  
 City seeking sales taxes from Orange Bowl concessions
The University of Miami is the Orange Bowl's full-time tenant and, in 1996, the city was declared by the governor to be in a state of financial emergency.
She said the stadium is home to about 30 major events throughout the year, including two soccer games by the Miami Fusion.
Sanchez said the Orange Bowl, built for $350,000 in 1937, was trying to carve a new niche with soccer teams, some of them coming from Latin America and the Caribbean in search of a neutral ground.
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 USATODAY.com - Twist to tradition at this year's Rose Bowl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
One hundred years after Michigan and Stanford helped invent the phenomenon known as the bowl game — a venture so successful that it was abandoned for 16 years — a tradition was reinvented Thursday.
There were no other bowl games to fill miniature television screens in the parking lot, nothing else to talk about as the locals went back to work.
As the earliest arriving fans were subjected to frisking at the gates — "Males on males, females on females," instructed a shouting voice at one entrance — the sun began to set and the sky began to disappear.
www.usatoday.com /sports/college/football/2002-01-04-rose-moran-cover.htm   (1058 words)

  
 Extra Points Wednesday :: Carolina hasn't been to the Orange Bowl recently, but it used to be a regular occurrence.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Heels will venture into the Orange Bowl at noon Saturday afternoon to meet a team stoked for revenge and antsy to return to the field after a week of Hurricane Wilma distractions, not the least of which was the postponement of last Saturday's scheduled home game against Georgia Tech.
The Orange Bowl Stadium might not mean as much to 20-year-old college players as it does to middle-aged writers.
But the venue originally known as Roddy Burdine Municipal Stadium (it opened in 1937 and was renamed the Orange Bowl in 1959) is special to anyone who followed football closely in from the late 1960s through the 1980s.
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 College Gridirons-Pro Player Stadium-FedEx Orange Bowl
Originally named Dolphins Stadium, the facility was paid for by the selling of luxury suites, club seats, private funds, and long term agreements with season ticket holders.
When the stadium was built for the Dolphins, Joe Robbie insisted on a rectangular grandstand layout that was wider than needed for football, believing that baseball would possibly come to Miami.
The seats in the lower level on the north side of the stadium had to become retractable so the field could be configured for baseball.
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The Orange Bowl - now this is one stadium steeped in history, both at the collegiate
The stadium is horseshoe shaped, with one end zone closed in and
Orange Bowl Stadium isn't situated on the UM campus, but in a heavy Cuban and Hispanic district, so all stores have signage in
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 Football :: The University of Southern California Trojans - Official Athletic Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Orange Bowl tickets will be sent out via overnight DHL service starting on December 15.
As of today the Bowl Game possibilities for USC are the Rose Bowl or the Orange Bowl.
The total allotment for the Orange Bowl is 16,000 tickets and the total allotment for the Rose Bowl is 32,000 tickets.
usctrojans.collegesports.com /sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/usc-bowl-info-0405.html   (1188 words)

  
 Marlins deal taking shape for new stadium near Orange Bowl
The city will provide city-owned land at the Orange Bowl and has agreed to acquire about a city block of rental units for the project.
The city is finalizing plans for a major renovation of the Orange Bowl stadium for the Miami Hurricanes.
Miami City Commissioner Tomas Regalado, who has pushed the Orange Bowl as the location for a new stadium for years, said he thinks a deal is close this time.
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 Current News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
When USC and Oklahoma meet, in the legendary Orange Bowl Stadium on January 4, 2005, the entire eyes of the sports world will be watching, with great anticipation, as two of college football’s greatest and most endearing programs go head-to-head to determine this year’s national champion.
Couple that with the fact that they are playing in The Orange Bowl, a stadium that has hosted some of the greatest regular season and post season games in recent memory, and you’ve got yourself a monumental set-up to what will likely be, a Classic.
My guess is that the nation will be treated to one of the most entertaining games in recent memory by two of the most storied programs in college football history.
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 I drove by the Orange Bowl today... - SoonerFans.com Message Boards
Orange Bowl stadium is the home field of the Miami Hurricanes.
I meant to say "So the Orange Bowl is pretty much empty now?" And according to you're answer, I am correct.
I heard that the AP was going to vote to call the Holiday Bowl the Rose Bowl this year, so Cal could play for a Rose Bowl trophy.
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 hurricane-warning.com - U Miami in NCAA 2005 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Why is our stadium called "Miami Stadium" and not the Orange Bowl.
I would assume it is a copyright issue but it seems they've got the OK to use almost everything else except players names.
The sign on the side says "Miami Orange Bowl", but I think the official name is the Orange Bowl Stadium, like Cobra says.
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