EagleBank Bowl Tickets Now On Sale

City Paper's Dave McKenna reminds us that college football's bowl season will return to the District with a reprise of last year's EagleBank Bowl, despite the main sponsor's TARPtastic financial position. Tickets for the December 29th game (moved back from last season's pre-Christmas date) at RFK Stadium went on sale yesterday. The bowl, which would pit Army (under the very generous assumption that they will be bowl eligible), and the eighth-place team from the ACC -- obviously, organizers would kill to draw Maryland, for obvious reasons -- got mostly positive reviews from fans and teams last season, when Wake Forest defeated Navy, 29-19. But in-person attendance did not meet expectations. In light of that, it strikes us as odd that just like last year, tickets are somewhat ridiculously expensive -- the lowest priced seat is $30 -- for a game possibly featuring a service academy which hasn't been to a bowl since 1996 and a team that will likely be 6-6 and in the bottom half of the ACC.