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Fans at Miami Hurricanes game use American flag as net to help save cat falling from stadium's upper level
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Miami Gardens, Florida — The most notable catch in Saturday's game between No. 22 Miami and Appalachian State didn't even happen on the field.
Wasn't even a football. It was a cat. The animal somehow got into Hard Rock Stadium, then got caught by one of its paws off the facade of the upper deck in the first quarter. It eventually fell to the lower level of the stadium, where fans using an American flag as a makeshift net of sorts were able to catch it before it was carried off to safety.![](/newspic/picid-6252001-20250216030556.jpg)
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