{"id":2239777,"date":"2026-01-18T16:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2239777"},"modified":"2026-01-18T16:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:14:11","slug":"miami-fans-pack-cfp-events-as-free-festivities-take-over-south-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/miami-fans-pack-cfp-events-as-free-festivities-take-over-south-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami fans pack CFP events as free festivities take over South Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-0\">\n  <!-- lil observer --><br \/>\n      <span class=\"content__observer-marker content__observer-marker--fixed lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body\">\n<p>Fans filled the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" 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<h2>Travelers arrive without game tickets<\/h2>\n<p>Some fans traveled through multiple states just to be in the same city as the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/college-football-playoff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" 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<h2>Free concerts hit Lummus Park<\/h2>\n<p>Saturday and Sunday, music lovers can take in free concerts at Lummus Park in Miami Beach.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\"\/><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Locals join in championship buzz<\/h2>\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<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n        <\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.cbsnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans filled the Miami Beach Convention Center on Friday for the Fan Central event, which runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday through Sunday. &#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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2239778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[426307,22373,355705,344786,351125,416327],"class_list":["post-2239777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-florida","tag-indiana-university","tag-miami","tag-south-florida","tag-university-of-miami"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Miami-fans-pack-CFP-events-as-free-festivities-take-over.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239779,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239777\/revisions\/2239779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2239778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}