fau bowl game

[BayouBaller]

The game drew an overwhelmingly pro-CMU crowd of 41,399. The Chips led the MAC in home-attendance average this year with 22,659. ...

http://www.freep.com/article/2008122...73/1048/SPORTS

Still a lot of empty seats at Ford Field in spite of CMU only a car trip away. Several of the games to date have been played in less than full stadiums. ESPN is a master at cropping out the empty seats. This is something UL should figure out with most tv/webcast views lookin into the empty visitors side of the stadium.

http://cmsimg.freep.com/apps/pbcsi.d...W=320&Border=0

[MissingMandy]

_ The game drew an overwhelmingly pro-CMU crowd of 41,399. The Chips led the MAC in home-attendance average this year with 22,659. ...

http://www.freep.com/article/2008122...73/1048/SPORTS

Still a lot of empty seats at Ford Field in spite of CMU only a car trip away. Several of the games to date have been played in less than full stadiums. ESPN is a master at cropping out the empty seats. This is something UL should figure out with most tv/webcast views lookin into the empty visitors side of the stadium.

http://cmsimg.freep.com/apps/pbcsi.d...W=320&Border=0 _

No doubt there were many empty seats.....many people in Detroit are without jobs....the highest unemployment in the US. I would imagine they have more important issues to deal with right now.

[RCAJUN90]

_ No doubt there were many empty seats.....many people in Detroit are without jobs....the highest unemployment in the US. I would imagine they have more important issues to deal with right now. _

Shreveport was driven by the military and a GM plant. I wonder how that is doing these days.

[BayouBaller]

No. 11 Horned Frogs beat the No. 9 and previously undefeated Broncos of Boise State in the Poinsettia Bowl. The announced attendance at Qualcomm Stadium was 34,628.

Saw this one on the tube too. Lots of empty seats. MCB would have been in big trouble without a Michigan MAC team regardless of the economy.

So many of these games are made for TV.

[Clutch0364]

_ Good game by the Owls.

It sounded like their band made the trip even though I never ACTUALLY saw them on TV. Did ANY of their fans actually make the trip outside of a couple of hundred? I felt that ESPN focused on the Central Michigan fan base/band instead of FAU's. _

They said during the broadcast that they rented a local high school band.

[DestinCajun]

It's Sunday and the weather is terrible. Are there any bowl games today?

[jllanclos]

They said during the broadcast that they rented a local high school band.

How embarrassing. I guess phony, fake atmosphere is better than no atmosphere, eh?

igeaux.mobi

[Rebel02]

_ It's Sunday and the weather is terrible. Are there any bowl games today? _

None of any significance to us!