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During the 1980s Black athletes and other athletes of color broadened the popularity and profitability of majorcollege televised sports by infusing games with a Black style of play At a moment ripe for a revolution in mens college basketball and football clashes between good guy white protagonists and bombastic bad boy Black antagonists attracted new fans and spectators And no two teams in the 1980s welcomed the enemys role more than Georgetown Hoya basketball and Miami Hurricane football
Georgetown and Miami taunted opponents Athletes of color at both schools made sports apparel fashionable for younger fans particularly young African American men The Hoyas and the Canes were a sensation because they made the badboy image look good Popular culture took notice
In the US sports and race have always been tightly if sometimes uncomfortably entwined Black athletes who dare to challenge the sporting status quo are often initially vilified but later accepted The 1980s generation of barrierbusting college athletes took this process a step further Georgetown and Miamis aggressive style of play angered many fans and commentators But in time their style was not only accepted but imitated by others both Black and white Love them or hate them there was simply no way you could deny the Hoyas and the Hurricanes
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