Boomer, I watched that bowl game, or at least part of it, and it was the game closest to ours in excitement and attendance. There were two advantages that bowl game had this year over the NO Bowl; (1) both teams were within easy travel distance to the bowl, and (2) it was an AQ against an non-AQ school.
If we had Purdue in our game we probably draw more for us but they definetly would have brought more than SDSU.
Anyway, there crowd looked good BUT, both teams were the same colors (black and gold, kind of Saintsy) they looked NOTHING like our sea of RED! We still have the most impressive looking crowd.
With that being said, the Belk Bowl also had a good crowd and game.
I don't think your numbers are that far off, but you aren't taking into account the number of people in suites & the poeple in clubs. You can bet that just about every single empty seat you saw from one corner of one end zone to the same corner of the opposing end zone had someone there for that seat. A lot of those people were in suites & I would bet many were at various parties around the dome watching on close circuit TV. The same would go for the old lodge level. You have to realize with the way the dome is configured now, it just swallows up people. This may be the reason a stadium like Detroit's could have had the number they showed without it looking like that many on TV.
Looks like the Holiday Bowl (Texas/Cal) has a great crowd.
Military Bowl 25,042
You know we did GREAT!...the NO BOWL loves LOUISIANA!....where it all plays out is OK!...can you imagine playing in the Hawaii Bowl?
Belk's, Beef O Brady's, where will it end?
There are currently 11 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 11 guests)