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PARKLAND, Fla. — The evening crowd at Starbucks has begun to thin as Rod Mack, a former linebacker at Miami, thumbs through his phone to scan thousands of photos and videos preserving the memories of a football team that defined a generation. Between sips of his strawberry acai lemonade — "My guilty pleasure," he calls it — Mack finally unearths the clip he's been searching for: a cinematic entrance plucked from a noteworthy YouTube channel that, on Aug. 3, 2019, decided to broadcast the Miami Gardens Ravens live for the first time. He presses play and turns the screen toward his guest.

Beneath the last fading pinks of a darkening, cloud-filled sky, a line of players snakes its way through the parking lot toward the stadium at Monsignor Edward Pace High School in Miami Gardens, Florida, where a cauldron of noise and a sold-out stadium and an opponent from California await.

"Yoooooo!" a coach shouts. "Yoooooo!" the players shout back.

"Whose house is this? ... Our house!"

"Whose house is this? ... Our house!"

"Daaawwwwg check!  ... Woof!"

"Daaawwwwg check! ... Woof!"

"Check! Check! Check! ... Woof! Woof! Woof!"

It's at this moment, as the team makes a right-hand turn to approach the gates, that the music blaring through the facility's speakers grows clearer. The slow and unmistakable buildup to "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins greets the Ravens as they leap and bound their way into the fray, though it's quickly drowned out by rapturous screams and applause.

Hundreds of spectators, including players and coaches from other programs, have lined the entrance to dole out high-fives and helmet slaps to the No. 1 team in the country. There are social media mavens wielding cameras and reporters holding microphones for pregame