{"id":121533,"date":"2026-01-17T03:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/121533\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T03:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:58:09","slug":"miami-fans-pack-cfp-events-as-free-festivities-take-over-south-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/121533\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami fans pack CFP events as free festivities take over South Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans filled the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Miami Beach<\/a> Convention Center on Friday for the Fan Central event, which runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Miami, it&#8217;s a city that you know is kind of there with everything being financially up there, but this is, look at all of the families and kids out here having a great time and to do it free,&#8221; said UM fan Robert Federhofer. &#8220;We are thankful. We are so thankful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Travelers arrive without game tickets<\/p>\n<p>Some fans traveled through multiple states just to be in the same city as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/college-football-playoff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">College Football Playoff<\/a>, even without plans to attend the Indiana-Miami game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tickets were a little bit too high, but if I find $5,000 on the floor, I will definitely be going to the game for sure,&#8221; joked Hoosier fan Bryan Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>Free concerts hit Lummus Park<\/p>\n<p>Saturday and Sunday, music lovers can take in free concerts at Lummus Park in Miami Beach.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fanzonegraphic.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"fanzonegraphic.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  Locals join in championship buzz<\/p>\n<p>Even Miami natives are playing tourists in their own city to celebrate the championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll be here tomorrow. We&#8217;ll be here Sunday,&#8221; said one UM fan in South Beach. &#8220;And the Canes are going to win, baby.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The championship game kicks off at 7:30 p.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans filled the Miami Beach Convention Center on Friday for the Fan Central event, which runs from 10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10241,28,5935,123,125,124,807,9724],"class_list":["post-121533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-florida","tag-indiana-university","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-south-florida","tag-university-of-miami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}