For three years earlier this decade, Marlins Park would masquerade as a football venue at least once a year. From 2014 to 2016, the home of the Miami Marlins annually hosted the Miami Beach Bowl, and Butch Davis was a part of it.
Now the coach of the FIU Panthers, Davis worked for ESPN at the time and Carlos Padilla, the director of the bowl game, leaned on Davis as a consultant to figure out what players wanted out of a postseason contest.
The Miami Beach Bowl was played for the final time in 2016, and there hasn’t been a football game at the Miami stadium since.