Papajohns.com Bowl to Stay in Birmingham
It was announced recently that the ESPN regional NCAA bowl game that has been hosted in Birmingham for the last two years will remain in the city for at least another two. Boasting 30,000+ tickets sold each year ESPN claims that they have been reasonably happy with the Birmingham support.
” ‘With the Papajohns.com Bowl being the highest-rated event on ESPN2 during the month of December for two consecutive years, we think continued support of the bowl makes great business sense for us as we continue to strengthen our leadership position in online ordering and our connection with college football fans,’ said Chris Steinberg, the senior vice president in charge of communications at Papa John’s.”
Hopefully, this good news will continue with the renewal of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament being hosted here as well. Birmingham is a great place for spectator sports, at least for one-off events. The question is: “Can we be a regular season city?” If the powers that be can grow support and belief that we ARE such a city then surely a dome will have no problem. However, the answer to this important question is yet to be found.
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Tying our bowl game to the SEC hopefully will be a big plus in the push for a Dome Stadium, we lost the SEC championship to Atlanta because of their Dome. But I am still concerned about our Mayor’s idea of putting it out at the Dog Track. It needs to be downtown and no where else. I do not think Birmingham is an ideal place for a sports resort, I think you would need a pro-team or teams for that to happen. But that is one reason he wants it out there.