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The EagleBank Bowl, the first college football bowl game ever scheduled to be played inside the District, was a virtual lock to feature Navy, who finished the season at 8-4 after a 34-0 thrashing of Army on Saturday. What wasn't so clear was who the Midshipmen would play. Well, consider the mystery solved: Wake Forest accepted an invitation to play in the game, which will kick off, quite literally, the annual glut of football which straddles New Year's. RFK Stadium will host the game on December 20 at 11 a.m. — the bowl game's (rather expensive) tickets are definitely still available.
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$45 minimum to see these two teams play a meaningless bowl game at a crappy stadium?
What a joke.
ces12: My thoughts exactly.
If I'm here on that date, I'm certainly waiting til after kick off to see what I can get from scalpers.
Another note, however: did anyone see Army's uniforms on Saturday? Pretty cool.
Maryland really screwed this bowl by refusing on grounds of "exam week". As if Maryland athletics really care about grades! There must be something going on behind the scenes there if they're denying the Eagle Bank organizers a Maryland-Navy game. I think 'exam week' means, don't feel like playing the Mids this year.
And Wake-Navy is what bowl organizers really dread - a rematch. And a rematch for Navy against the smallest 1-A school, who's fans have already seen Navy and had a game in the area (loss to Maryland). Ouch.
Apparently Navy had no problem seeing Army's uniforms.
anybody want to take bets on actual attendance?
i'll wager something between 16 and 19 thousand
$45 for "cheap" seats to an exhibition game? It should've at least had a cool name like Poulon Weedeater Bowl or something.
anybody want to take bets on actual attendance?
i'll wager something between 16 and 19 thousand
Navy always get 30k+ at home. I'll bet on that - I'm sure they are on the hook for a certain amount of tickets.
I'm withholding my opinion until I hear from FREDTERP.
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"Maryland really screwed this bowl by refusing on grounds of "exam week". As if Maryland athletics really care about grades! There must be something going on behind the scenes there if they're denying the Eagle Bank organizers a Maryland-Navy game. I think 'exam week' means, don't feel like playing the Mids this year."
Seriously. It's on a Saturday morning at 11 AM. NOBODY will be studying on Saturday morning at 11 AM.
FWIW, I'm pretty sure I remember having finals on Saturdays at Maryland.
Student athletes can pretty much take their exams whenever they're available. Though I do understand wanting to have a reduced practice schedule that week while exams are going on. I still think there's something else behind this.
If this bowl game were a beer it would be Keystone Light.
Can we get a story about renting homes and apartments to visiting fans? It isn't inaguaration sure, but I believe there tens of dollars to be made here.
Maryland denied the EagleBank Bowl wayyy before they found out they could be possibly playing Navy due to it falling on exam week. There are around 25 players that have exams on that Saturday, which the AD really tried to work around, but MD ultimately had no other choice but to accept Boise. I'd much rather see the Terps take on Navy here in DC then some WAC team out west on the Smurf Turf.
Maryland denied the EagleBank Bowl wayyy before they found out they could be possibly playing Navy
I take your point there. Not to be pedantic, but there is no Eagle Bank Bowl without the possibility of playing Navy. They were/are essentially locked in to the game. Any ACC team would know they're going to play them pretty much from day one.
I take your point there. Not to be pedantic, but there is no Eagle Bank Bowl without the possibility of playing Navy. They were/are essentially locked in to the game. Any ACC team would know they're going to play them pretty much from day one.
I'm saying the date of the bowl game from the get-go, regardless of who the opponent would've been, made the EagleBank Bowl impossible for UMD to attend because of exams and was never an option for the school to begin with.
Hopefully, the organizers can move it to a later date (and kickoff time... 11am!?) to accommodate MD in the future, especially since this is the last year the ACC affiliates itself with Boise.
I can hardly wait NOT to see this game, in person or on tv.
They had already sold 22,000 tickets to this game before Navy's opponent had even been announced. The Academy travels well (and they don't have far to travel in this case). Organizers said they are anticipating a crowd of at least 30,000 and the folks at Wake Forest were evidently very excited at the prospect of playing in DC, so the final ticket sales shouldn't be too bad.
kevrock: just to make sure to clarify, i'm looking for actual attendance, not tickets sold. i'm sure they'll sell out the stadium, or something approximating that, but i want to know how many people don't come dressed up as empty seats...
we'll see if the crowd of over 30K materializes
OK, yeah I agree that attendance will be an entirely different matter from ticket sales -- as the Nats can attest. Given the proximity, a good portion of the Navy student body should attend, but depending on the weather they may make up the bulk of the crowd.
I'm guessing attendance will likely be somewhere in the teens. It will help that Navy encourages its boosters to buy extra tickets and donate them to the school so they can give them to cash-strapped Midshipmen and local military families.