"On Saturday evening, exactly 48 hours before kickoff of the College Football Playoff National Championship Presented by AT&T ( 7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN), an alley draped with strands of white lights and tucked into the hustling heart of Coconut Grove was packed with Mendozas. Granted, any location where Mendozas choose to gather, it always becomes packed. That's how they roll. Deep."
"Every five years they hold a family reunion, and the last one, in 2022, drew 850 kinfolks, an assemblage of such mass it landed them on the front page of the Miami Herald. They wore color-coded T-shirts, a dozen different hues signifying which of the 12 branches of the family tree was theirs. At that reunion, the official Mendoza headcount of direct descendants was 2,836, backed by a genealogy flowchart so detailed that everyone on it receives a designated number that tells their story."
An alley in Coconut Grove filled with Mendozas 48 hours before the College Football Playoff National Championship. Hundreds of Mendoza relatives gathered, many wearing football jerseys, to support family member No. 314111, Fernando Gabriel Mendoza V, who will play Monday night. The Mendoza family holds a reunion every five years and the 2022 reunion drew 850 kinfolks. The official Mendoza headcount records 2,836 direct descendants and a genealogy flowchart assigns each person a designated number. The gathering included color-coded T-shirts marking 12 family branches, hugs, laughter, beers, and cousins tossing a football near University of Miami fans.
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