[NU Sports] sec bowl foes

[Jeff Beamsley]

Anthony Mallas wrote: <snip>

>The location of the game is more important that who we play??  What is the reason for the bowl game anyway?  Obviously there are places I'd rather travel to a bowl game than Detroit (where I'd have to pack a gun) or El Paso.  
>
 From your comment, I suspect that you haven't actually gone to a 
football game at Ford Field.  I went to the Motor City Bowl last year.  
Other than the traffic jam to get into the place, Ford Field was a great 
place to see a bowl game (much better than the Alamo Dome IMHO).  Far 
from feeling threatened, I was looking forward to the possibility of 
going there again.

As far as your comment on Detroit, it certainly has it's problems, but 
they are working very hard to put that image behind them.  The Ford 
Field/Comerica Park/Fox Theater area is geared to tourism and rivals the 
best that any big city has to offer.  When you throw in world class 
destinations like the Henry Ford Museum/Greenfield Village, the Detroit 
Institute of Art, and Zingerman's Deli (Ann Arbor) - you can have a lot 
of fun in a couple of days.

That's why civic boosters put money into things like the Motor City 
Bowl.  They want people to come and see for themselves, rather than just 
gossip based on what they read in the newspapers. 

Jeff Beamsley
Tech '72