Anybody gonna watch the Cowtown Bowl?
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 8:02 pmJust wondering. 
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 8:02 pmPosted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:33 pmI watched the whole thing (too cold to ride the motorcycle tonight). Marshall showed very little energy. They were beaten.
Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 12:42 amYeah, the Thundering Herd came to a halt tonight.
Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 9:58 pmI heard there was absolutely nobody there, outside of the players' families (gee, what a surprise). Saw a few minutes of it while I was freezing to death at DFW airport.
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Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 5:02 pmDallasDiehard wrote:I heard there was absolutely nobody there, outside of the players' families (gee, what a surprise). Saw a few minutes of it while I was freezing to death at DFW airport.
You didn't miss much from what I could see. Saw some of the game while up in Indiana for Christmas; ESPN showed very few crowd shots at all, and I can see why. Official attendance listed was 13 K plus but couple people I talked to two people who actually went to that game and said there were probably 5,000 there, tops. I also read in the FWST that there were around 28,000 tickets "distributed" for the game. Meaning someone in Fort Worth bought about half the tickets and gave them away.
Much as I like Fort Worth itself, the FW Bowl and at least six or seven other spare bowls need to give it up and go away. Two 6-5 teams from CUSA and the MAC aren't going to sell tickets to ANY bowlgame anywhere.
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 10:10 amI grew up in the Fort and traveled the great distance from Plano with my wife and kid to grandma and grampa's house off Hulen Street on the 23rd. My brother and dad were talking about how their TCU alum friends and FW Chamber of Commerce folks were begging people to go and were giving away tickets to anyone willing to go. It was really a big joke. My brother takes his 3 kids to a lot of TCU games, but had no interest. Granted, it was cold as heck.
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 1:54 pm[quote="HorseRaiderOfficial attendance listed was 13 K plus but couple people I talked to two people who actually went to that game and said there were probably 5,000 there, tops. [/quote]
The attendance looked very similar to one of our home games when we don't use the "rent-a-fan" approach by playing Tech, OSU, or TCU.
The attendance looked very similar to one of our home games when we don't use the "rent-a-fan" approach by playing Tech, OSU, or TCU.