Legendary Miami Hurricane Melvin Bratton explains the culture and brotherhood of Canes Football.
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00:00What pissed me off though, bro, as we go into three-a-days, so Stellenberg takes us through
00:05three-a-days as true freshmen. When I tell you it was hell to pay and we were like,
00:11what in the hell is wrong with this man? I mean, we got up at six, we had a hard workout.
00:16We'll not even shower, go get breakfast, come back and go back at 10 with full pads,
00:22take a lunch break for an hour and come back at 2.30 and we was back at on Green Tree.
00:27We did that for a whole entire week before the veterans came in and he kicked our ass.
00:32I'm like, I said, bro, this dude is crazy. But it really, it taught us something that
00:37that class right there, we had a special bond. We didn't see color. We didn't give a damn about
00:44who's black, who's white, what background you come from. We knew we were special. We had
00:49the movie Cujo. I don't know if I remember you, Alex, your ass wasn't born at the time.
00:54You don't even know the damn Cujo. I still have seen it. Yeah. I know what it is.
00:58Yeah. So that movie had just broken the screens at 83 to be exactly. But this powerful dog.
01:05So all of us, we left all our cars. We walked from Green Tree across to, there was a theater,
01:10movie theater across the street on US 1 right across from the campus. We all as a group,
01:1513 of us, we walked together and that walk right there was like, it was like a bond that,
01:22you know what I'm saying? We know like the, all of us are in it and inside the movie and God
01:26bless the day Jerome Brown, we were talking and joking and cracking jokes about the dog.
01:32Some dude with his girlfriend, some little steroid guy, you know what I'm saying? Little,
01:35you know, yoked up guy. He's like, yo, yo, yo, shut up. So Jerome stands up and tell him,
01:41shut, who are you talking to? You. So all of us stood up. We're ready to go to war,
01:46go to fight. Right then was a moment that if something happened to one of us, all of us going
01:51in and we took that mindset everywhere we went. You cannot, we'll fight each other all day,
01:58but anybody outside trying to fight our brothers, we're going to fight and we're
02:01coming together. I don't care what, we can be dead ass wrong, we're coming. So that right
02:06there, that was a bond that changed the whole mindset of Miami football right there.