{"id":776650,"date":"2026-02-26T01:59:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/776650\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T01:59:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:59:42","slug":"miami-star-doesnt-hold-back-about-crazy-michael-irvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/776650\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Star Doesn\u2019t Hold Back About \u2018Crazy\u2019 Michael Irvin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Irvin<\/a> was an iconic Miami Hurricanes wide receiver, setting several all-time program records<\/a> and winning the 1987 national championship, but Irvin has become contemporarily known as an iconic Miami Hurricanes football fan.<\/p>\n

The latter was never truer than during the 2025 season. Irvin was an animated fixture, to put it lightly, on the Hurricanes’ sideline as Miami tore through the College Football<\/a> Playoff before narrowly losing to the undefeated Indiana Hoosiers in the 2026 College Football Playoff National Championship. <\/p>\n

While at the 2026 NFL Combine in Indianapolis on Wednesday, Miami defensive end Rueben Bain Jr.<\/a> visited with The Rich Eisen Show<\/a>. Eisen asked Bain Jr. for his thoughts on Irvin. Bain jokingly responded, “Man, he’s a hell of a mentor, but that man is crazy.”<\/p>\n

Irvin went viral repeatedly for his “BTA<\/a>” celebration, so it’s unsurprising that the Pro Football Hall of Famer was devastated when his Hurricanes fell short<\/a> of what would have been the football team’s first national championship since 2001.<\/p>\n

“I was depressed after the game,” Irvin said on Cam’ron’s It Is What It Is podcast<\/a>. “I’m not gonna lie. I was depressed. Everybody was calling me and said, ‘Man, let’s go out and party.’ I said, ‘I ain’t goin’ nowhere. I ain’t going no damn where. We just lost.'” <\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

Irvin, who won three Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys in the 1990s, continued: “As I’m trying to leave the stadium, all the Indiana fans [said], ‘Mr. Irvin! Mr. Irvin, I’m a Cowboys fan! Can we take a picture?’ Hell, no! I ain’t taking no picture with y’all. It’s like jersey-swapping. I told you, I wasn’t going to jersey-swap with somebody, and I’m not going to give you a picture on this field, so you can remember whooping my ass. Are you crazy? Get on out of here with that. I just went back to my room, and I just went to sleep.”<\/p>\n

Irvin should be pleased with the fact that nobody is sleeping on the Hurricanes as we approach April’s 2026 NFL Draft, including Bain Jr. <\/p>\n

Mock drafts by the likes of CBS<\/a>, ESPN<\/a>, and The Athleti<\/a>c slate Miami products Bain Jr., offensive lineman Francis Mauigoa, defensive end Akheem Mesidor, and cornerback Mansoor Delane as first-round prospects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Irvin was an iconic Miami Hurricanes wide receiver, setting several all-time program records and winning the 1987…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[331,7,2972,21120,49,48],"class_list":["post-776650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-college-football","tag-football","tag-miami-hurricanes","tag-michael-irvin","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116134463608842123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}