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Re: Fenway Bowl: Official Thread

PostPosted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 12:44 pm
by ponyboy
Southwest has flights from Dallas Love to Logan leaving on the 28th and returning on the 30th for $420 RT.

Re: Fenway Bowl: Official Thread

PostPosted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 1:16 pm
by CA Mustang
ponyboy wrote:Southwest has flights from Dallas Love to Logan leaving on the 28th and returning on the 30th for $420 RT.

Those appear to be long gone. Fares from Austin and Houston are also very high that week. This appears to be a trip where cashing in FF miles on your preferred airline is the best way to go.

I'd be interested to know what is driving airfare so high. We've discussed the weather and all the colleges/universities in the area will be on break, so where's the demand coming from that week?

Re: Fenway Bowl: Official Thread

PostPosted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 1:23 pm
by DanFreibergerForHeisman
CA Mustang wrote:
ponyboy wrote:Southwest has flights from Dallas Love to Logan leaving on the 28th and returning on the 30th for $420 RT.

Those appear to be long gone. Fares from Austin and Houston are also very high that week. This appears to be a trip where cashing in FF miles on your preferred airline is the best way to go.

I'd be interested to know what is driving airfare so high. We've discussed the weather and all the colleges/universities in the area will be on break, so where's the demand coming from that week?

It's almost like the airlines are a racket!

Re: Fenway Bowl: Official Thread

PostPosted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 1:24 pm
by PK
CA Mustang wrote:
ponyboy wrote:Southwest has flights from Dallas Love to Logan leaving on the 28th and returning on the 30th for $420 RT.

Those appear to be long gone. Fares from Austin and Houston are also very high that week. This appears to be a trip where cashing in FF miles on your preferred airline is the best way to go.

I'd be interested to know what is driving airfare so high. We've discussed the weather and all the colleges/universities in the area will be on break, so where's the demand coming from that week?

Still considered holiday travel time.

Re: Fenway Bowl: Official Thread

PostPosted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 1:46 pm
by ponyboy
I saw at least one ticket available, Love to Logan, an hour ago, for $420 RT. Maybe they are gone, but I’d be surprised.

Re: Fenway Bowl: Official Thread

PostPosted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 1:59 pm
by redpony
sadly, two of my favorite restaurants in Boston- Durgin-Park and Anthony's Pier4 are no longer.

Re: Fenway Bowl: Official Thread

PostPosted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:58 pm
by Peruna94&07
Did you notice the bowl game got some love in this ranking?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/ranking-the-42-college-football-bowl-games-from-best-to-worst/ar-AARuXmi?ocid=msedgntp

#18 isn't bad considering the melt down. Even said that if either team hadn't melt down it would be higher on the list. Plus we are ranked better than the Houston v Auburn game.

Although the Frisco bowl with UTSA is #16.

Re: Fenway Bowl: Official Thread

PostPosted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 5:57 pm
by docabel
Peruna94&07 wrote:
Although the Frisco bowl with UTSA is #16.


Tell me you've never been to the Frisco Bowl without telling me you have never been to the Frisco Bowl.

Re: Fenway Bowl: Official Thread

PostPosted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:24 pm
by Terry Webster
Looking at the video from the nfl game tonight with the temp and wind chill makes the 1k to fly to the game, get a hotel and tickets a lot less desirable.

Re: Fenway Bowl: Official Thread

PostPosted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:31 pm
by CA Mustang
PK wrote:
CA Mustang wrote:
ponyboy wrote:Southwest has flights from Dallas Love to Logan leaving on the 28th and returning on the 30th for $420 RT.

Those appear to be long gone. Fares from Austin and Houston are also very high that week. This appears to be a trip where cashing in FF miles on your preferred airline is the best way to go.

I'd be interested to know what is driving airfare so high. We've discussed the weather and all the colleges/universities in the area will be on break, so where's the demand coming from that week?

Still considered holiday travel time.

Just spoke with a friend on the East Coast. She said those prices are due to folks traveling to NH and VT for skiing. Apparently airfare for NH and VT airports is even more outrageous.

Re: Fenway Bowl: Official Thread

PostPosted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 11:12 am
by EastStang
Terry Webster wrote:Looking at the video from the nfl game tonight with the temp and wind chill makes the 1k to fly to the game, get a hotel and tickets a lot less desirable.


Game was in Buffalo. Weather always bad in Buffalo in the winter which is next to Great Lakes. They call it "lake effect". Boston is on the coast and still gets bad weather, and it still gets cold, but it can be just dreary. Hopefully it isn't 35 degrees and raining.

Re: Fenway Bowl: Official Thread

PostPosted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 11:38 am
by CA Mustang

Re: Fenway Bowl: Official Thread

PostPosted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 1:55 pm
by GHammond
Has anyone found a Fenway Bowl merch site yet?

Re: Fenway Bowl: Official Thread

PostPosted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:06 pm
by jpe747
I didn't see the Sun Bowl. Did I miss something or are they not playing it anymore? I always loved the stadium carved out of the mountains of El Paso. The Sun Carnival was such a big event for El Paso.

Re: Fenway Bowl: Official Thread

PostPosted: Tue Dec 07, 2021 4:49 pm
by Arkpony
I attended the Sun Bowl the year we played Alabama. Absolutely the coldest game I ever attended.