I agree with you Helen on the game's excitement. However, if the bowl game is
in a great venue, and New Orleans is certainly that, it can be a fun vacation
trip with Gator football thrown in.
It's really hard to find a bad place to eat in the Big Easy. The historical
and museum scene is also cool. I hear there are things to be seen on Bourbon
Street.
A. Leon Polhill, Gator
"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did.
I said I didn't know." - Mark Twain
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From: Helen Huntley <hhsga...@gmail.com>
To: gatortalk@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 12:37:36 PM
Subject: Re: [gatortalk] 15 seconds (give or take) of fame(?)...
Great job, Steve!
I agree with your points, Ken. Even before UF told me I wasn't worthy to buy
post-season tix through UAA, I started buying them elsewhere because I always
found you could get better seats for the same price. Now I think bowl
attendance is in the past for me. I have been to the Sugar Bowl twice and had a
good time, but in general, I don't find bowl games to be anywhere near as much
fun as regular season SEC games and the travel expenses make them a lot more
expensive.
Helen
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Ken Kirkley <k...@kirkley.net> wrote:
Steve,
>
>I think you nailed the reason why the tickets weren’t selling through the
>UAA. Lot’s of reason for it too:
>- Had to have really high priority to get BCS tickets through UAA. Many
>people who did not have that priority had already made other arrangements
>through StubHub or others.
>- Many Gators had made plans to travel out West – spend a few days in Vegas or
>Arizona before heading to the game. Those other vacation plans are often hard
>or expensive to change.
>- Can’t ignore the economy, the face value tickets are expensive and travel is
>a hassle as well.
>- And finally, the tickets the UAA had to sell were some of the worse in the
>stadium, the schools allotments are usually in the corners of the endzones, so
>better tickets can be had buying directly from the Sugar Bowl.
>
>I watched on TV from chilly (-18) Minnesota, and it appeared the crowd was
>evenly split, Gators were certainly louder!
>
>And BTW, great job on the interview, but where was the Gatortalk mention?
>
>
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>From:gatortalk@googlegroups.com [mailto:gatort...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
>Of Steve McKibben
>Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 10:56 AM
>
>To: gatortalk@googlegroups.com
>Subject: [gatortalk] 15 seconds (give or take) of fame(?)...
>
>On Tuesday the 29th, I drove my son Shane back to Gainesville so that he could
>attend marching band rehearsal with The Pride of the Sunshine ahead of their
>bus trip to New Orleans the following day..
>
>
>We had some time to kill before he had to report, so we hit Gators Dockside to
>get a bite to eat, and met a local TV20 reporter that was doing a story on why
>the UF allotment of tickets to the Sugar Bowl weren't selling out.
>
>As you can see from their video, they must have been very hard up for people
>to talk to...
>
>http://www.wcjb.com/news/5796/tickets-still-unsold-for-sugar-bowl
>
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GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY!
1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions
2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions
2008 National Football Champions |
Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996),
Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
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GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY!
1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions
2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions
2008 National Football Champions |
Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996),
Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
