{"id":10818,"date":"2011-01-21T09:41:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T13:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=10818"},"modified":"2014-11-14T15:59:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T20:59:45","slug":"little-caesars-pizza-bowl-delivers-on-many-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2011\/01\/little-caesars-pizza-bowl-delivers-on-many-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Caesars Pizza Bowl delivers on many dreams."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo support the football team and see snow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo not witness a blowout and to see Florida International University (FIU) get wider attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those hopes from <strong>Anezka Martinez-Rios<\/strong> (BBA \u201901) assistant to the executive dean and the associate dean of the College of Business Administration, and <strong>Clifford Perry<\/strong>, associate dean, Landon Undergraduate School, came true on December 26, 2010 when they were among the fans on hand to see the Golden Panthers win in dramatic fashion against the Toledo Rockets&#8212;34-32&#8212;in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl in Detroit, Michigan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10820\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10820\" style=\"width: 409px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tn_DetroitGroup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10820\" title=\"tn_DetroitGroup\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tn_DetroitGroup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anezka Martinez Rios; Mark B. Rosenberg, president, FIU; Carla Garcia (BS \u201910); and Andria Williams Garcia,(MBA \u201903, BA \u201900)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe saw people in FIU gear at the Fort Lauderdale airport and in Detroit we stayed at the same hotel as the team, so we were psyched,\u201d Rios said. \u201cThe energy was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was her first trip to the Motor City. She had never seen snow and got to experience flurries, a snowball fight and the image of Roary making snow angels.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bowl game mingles with homecoming of a personal sort.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For Perry, the trip was a homecoming. He\u2019s from Detroit and got to spend time with his sister, Judy Whitlock, who still lives in there. It was also a validation of his long-term support for the football program.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10821\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10821\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tn_CliffAndSisterWithRoary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10821\" title=\"tn_CliffAndSisterWithRoary\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tn_CliffAndSisterWithRoary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judy Whitlock, Roary and Clifford Perry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI am an original season ticket holder with seats on the 50-yard line at our stadium,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve been excited by the progress we\u2019ve seen under head coach <strong>Mario Cristobal<\/strong>, and it was wonderful to see FIU getting wider recognition, including for our \u2018Worlds Ahead\u2019 campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only did the snow cooperate so Rios could enjoy it, but also the whole team, and FIU in general, benefited. Because of the collapse of the roof at the Metrodome, the Minnesota Vikings game against the New York Giants had been postponed. That meant the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl was the only football game on that Monday night. And though the FIU fans were outnumbered, \u201cour Panther Pride was clearly heard,\u201d Perry said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo support the football team and see snow.\u201d \u201cTo not witness a blowout and to see Florida International University (FIU) get wider attention.\u201d Those hopes from Anezka Martinez-Rios (BBA \u201901) assistant to the executive dean and the associate dean of the College of Business Administration, and Clifford Perry, associate dean, Landon Undergraduate School, came true [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[455,1758],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23910,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818\/revisions\/23910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}