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Hurricanes stumbling like mere mortals.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Greg Cote
BLACKSBURG, Va. _ Miami's Hurricanes had their best championship hopes snatched Saturday night in a strong-armed robbery, saw a quarterback controversy bloom like a sudden rash and endured their most public humiliation in many years on an otherwise uneventful evening here in Blackhole, Va.
The Lane Stadium loudspeakers kept playing an insane, inane ``turkey call'' in honor of the Hokies' secondary nickname, ``Fightin' Gobblers.'' And the deeper this game sank, the more that call began to sound like what Virginia Tech was systematically doing to UM's dream of a sixth national title:
Gobblegobblegobblegobble!
It was the ultimate Revenge of the Turkey. Gobblers, coming out on top in November, seeing somebody else's neck on the block and swinging down hard.
As the game ended thousands of marauding Tech fans swarmed onto the field in celebration of not so much their own victory as the stunning toppling of a football giant. The field stayed covered by fans, and the chilly air filled with the high buzz of shocked delirium, for a long, long time.
The Hurricanes do not lose by 31-7. Do they? Perhaps we were time-warped and turned up in 1975. Remember the first time you saw Superman felled by Kryptonite? Saturday night felt a little like that.
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