00:00You know, Billy, I saw something this past year that really was, you know, when I first got down to
00:05Miami, George Myra Sr. and George Myra Jr. took me to Little Havana, and I tried explaining this to people,
00:11and I know that you can do it better than me here.
00:14You know, watching Fernando Mendoza and Mario Cristobal, if I'm not mistaken, Fernando Mendoza's family, some of them were part
00:22of the Mario Boatlift, and they came over, and these were refugees coming over from the Castro regime.
00:29How cool was that for the South Florida community to see two Cuban-American families there in the national championship
00:36game?
00:37And I don't think people outside of South Florida know the importance of that and the pride that you had
00:43in South Florida seeing those two guys there on the football field in the national title game.
00:48It was a little overwhelming, and I did a rare video on social media about it.
00:52I don't usually talk sports for sports' sake.
00:56I usually try to do it in a greater context, which I think I try to do here to explain
01:00how this is, like, the most Miami Bowl, like, ever, and the fact that it was in Miami, no less,
01:07with a, you know, Miami, University of Miami alumni turned head coach, well, also a Columbus graduate as well, which
01:19is a very prominent Cuban-American, you know,
01:22a boys' school here in South Florida, which Mendoza was also a graduate of, and his father played ball with
01:31Mario Cristobal in high school at their shared high school, their, you know, alma mater.
01:36I mean, the whole thing is just crazy.
01:38It was just fairytale stuff, and so it was one of those things where it's just, like, as much as
01:43we all wanted it to be Miami's year, it was Miami's year.
01:47I should say as much as we wanted it to be the Hurricanes' year, Miami was going to win one
01:53way or another coming out of that game, and it was kind of extraordinary.
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