# College vs. Pro Football

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-vs-pro-football/256342>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 22, 2004, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-vs-pro-football/256342 "2004-07-22T14:07:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-vs-pro-football/256342/21 "2004-07-27T18:19:09Z")

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“Miami University,” huh? Try “the University of Miami” (so often referred to as “Quarterback U.”) – and they developed the pro-style offense in the 80’s to showcase their incredibly talented quarterbacks/receiver combinations and run rings around the beefy, lumbering linemen so popular then in the Big Ten and the SEC in particular. The results weren’t pretty, if you were a fan of Nebraska, FSU, Penn State, Notre Dame… 😃

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**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-vs-pro-football/256342/22 "2004-07-27T22:09:43Z")

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> [@The Scrivener](#):
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> \<snip\> The results weren’t pretty, if you were a fan of Nebraska, FSU, Penn State, Notre Dame… 😃

You mean like the 1986 National Championship game Miami LOST to Penn State in the Fiesta Bowl?

**vibrotronica** : Posted anywhere else, a wager involving a free year of dope would get us on somebody’s law enforcement list! :eek:

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**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-vs-pro-football/256342/23 "2004-07-28T15:57:46Z")

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…especially if they looked up some of my posts in legalization threads!

But, to be clear, we’re talking about a year’s board membership. Which I will be recieving when the Vols beat the Tigers. Or the War Eagles. [Or whatever the hell Auburn’s calling their football team these days.](http://www.auburntigers.com/traditions/page.cfm?doc_id=430)

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