December 28, 2004
Music City Bowl Ticket Sales Set Record
Ticket sales for Friday's Music City Bowl in Nashville have set a record for the game, according to bowl officials there. Organizers announced that--as of last week--over 60,000 tickets had been sold for the New Year's Eve matchup between Alabama and Minnesota. The previous record had been 59,221 tickets sold for the 1999 game between Kentucky vs. Syracuse.
The enthusiasm for this year's contest is not coming from Golden Gopher fans, however. Minnesota returned 5,000 of its 10,000 ticket allotment.
Butch Spyridon, president of the Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau, jokingly stated:
''The Crimson Tide is rising, and the Gophers have gone in their hole. Maybe a warm forecast will bring them out.''
The Alabama program, appearing in its first postseason game since 2001 (thanks to an NCAA-imposed bowl ban), will be welcomed in Nashville by a huge contingent of bowl-starved Tide fans. Bama fans seem willing to make the short drive to Middle Tennessee and are snapping up Music City Bowl tickets at a record clip.
Nashville's Coliseum--the site of the contest--seats 67,000 fans, so a number of tickets do remain available but are expected to briskly sell as the game approaches.
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