Go Canes!

The University of Miami Hurricanes football team is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference and one of the preeminent programs in all of college football. For those of you who may not know, college football is HUGE busine$$ in the US. The University of Miami has won five national championships (1983, 1987, 1989, 1991 and 2001) since 1983, making it the 2nd most winning college football program of the past quarter century. As you can see, we have not done very well since 2001, but that is a long story. It is then small wonder that everyone in town loves the Canes. To express that love, the university bus shuttles are appropriately named "Hurry Canes." They are used locally to shuttle students to and from immediate neighborhood to the main campus in Coral Gables.

On the fleet of these shuttle buses in this photo, you can see the fierce looking creature in a fighting mood, which is the proud Miami Hurricanes football team's mascot: the great Ibis of Florida. If you look closely, Sebastian (Yup! That's his name) is spelling out the letters C A N E S. Its arch enemy is the Florida Gators, the University of Florida football team. Our Ibis Sebastian eats gator meat for breakfast, lunch and dinner! Go Canes!