Orange Bowl

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  1. Terry O'Keefe

    Terry O'Keefe Well-Known Member Administrator

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    Anybody going to bother to watch? I read that both teams were unable to sell their allotments of tickets and will lose over 1 million dollars playing in the game. Going to be a lot of empty seats.

    I've got a lot of Big Bang Theory reruns qued up to run tonight instead of the Orange Bowl. :roll:
     
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    Dishes, xbox, too much to do. :?
     
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    Talk about a major upset! I just check the score and could not believe what I was seeing on the scoreboard. (ESPN)
     
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  4. Terry O'Keefe

    Terry O'Keefe Well-Known Member Administrator

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    Yikes 70 points...I didn't know Clemson was that bad.
     
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    I've never seen so many empty seats at bowl games as I have this year. The fiasco in San Francisco between Illinois and UCLA drew only 26,000 and this pathetic excuse for a major bowl game last night was no Orange Bowl. I don't know what it was. I fell asleep.
     
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    Both teams lost money going to that bowl.

    Some of the best bowls I saw in terms of looking like there was a big crowd (sellout or near sellout) were the Alamo Bowl and the Champs Bowl. Sugar Bowl looked like it was a big crowd, as did the Rose Bowl and Fiesta Bowls.

    I think in years that the Orange Bowl does not get the BCS Champ game they struggle because they are tied to the ACC/Big East.
     
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