GMAC Bowl: SELLOUT!!!

MobileBama · Post by **MobileBama** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:37 pm

Way to go BGSU fans, Memphis fans and the locals:

We can't wait down here in 'Bama!

http://www.al.com/sports/mobileregister ... 257660.xml

falconman · Post by **falconman** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:51 pm

According to the article, it says we are expected to bring 3000 people. That sounds like a good amount considering all the circumstances.

Falcon Commander · Post by **Falcon Commander** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 10:09 pm

I guess we'll have to be THREE times as loud.

We'll take your support Mobilebama.

And

thanks for ALL your help leading up to this Game. Really looking forward to it!

. . . outta this 7 degree weather Tues Morning.

Turn up the heat.

GO FALCONS !!

FalconKing · Post by **FalconKing** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 1:03 am

Falcon Commander wrote:I guess we'll have to be THREE times as loud.

And hand out a lot or ORANGE beads to the locals to get them to cheer for the good guys. ::Grin::

I'll be there with nine dozen strands.

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 9:15 am

This rocks!

I believe Miami drew better than 3,000 (for some reason, I have 5K stuck in my head), but 3K is not bad.

And the fact that the game sold out is just plain awesome!

Falconboy · Post by **Falconboy** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 1:01 pm

Just 3,000?

Man, I hope there'd be alot more around 10,000. Unless there's more BG fans that got their tix from other sources than BGSU. I hope the latter is the case. Is there really alot of alum's in Alabama?

Falconfreak90 · Post by **Falconfreak90** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 1:37 pm

falconboy wrote:Just 3,000? Man, I hope there'd be alot more around 10,000. Unless there's more BG fans that got their tix from other sources than BGSU. I hope the latter is the case. Is there really alot of alum's in Alabama?

Just 3,000?? This game is 3 days before Christmas, 1,000 miles away, on a Wed night....I think 3,000 is awesome! Just really wish it was 3,003!!!

GO FALCONS!!!!! TAME DA TIGERS!

redskins4ever · Post by **redskins4ever** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:30 pm

Miami sold 5K tickets and there were approximately 7-8K Miami fans last year. Alot of folks drove in from Atlanta as well as Florida. 3k isnt a bad number considering the date of the game.

ab1994 · Post by **ab1994** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 7:03 am

You know, it didn't really look like a sellout on TV. Lots of empty seats. Kind of like our home games.

Of course the crowd was easily 3-4 times the size of the empty Ft. Worth Bowl last night. I think ESPN actually went out of their way to avoid showing the stands.

orangeandbrown · Post by **orangeandbrown** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 8:19 am

It might have been a sellout, but the stands weren't full, that's for sure. Maybe the weather caused the problem for people.

factman · Post by **factman** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 9:22 am

Thge weather was a MAJOR problem. It rained all day, until about 4pm stopped for a couple of hours and rained the hardest I have ever seen it rain for an hour before the game, and then rained of and on during the game.
I was amazed at how many "local" people attended and stayed for the whole game. It was GREAT!!!!!

orangeandbrown · Post by **orangeandbrown** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 11:05 am

factman wrote:...rained the hardest I have ever seen it rain for an hour before the game,

I was in Ohio, but that was the impression I got. The 13ABC reporter (Hancock?) said that she had talked to game officials and "they had decided not to cancel the game" so you knew it had to be bad.

Metz · Post by **Metz** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 12:21 pm

orangeandbrown wrote:
factman wrote:...rained the hardest I have ever seen it rain for an hour before the game,
I was in Ohio, but that was the impression I got. The 13ABC reporter (Hancock?) said that she had talked to game officials and "they had decided not to cancel the game" so you knew it had to be bad.

From my seats, the stands looked really full but it was all Memphis fans. When I turned around, I saw the BG crowd but they only took up about 3 sections. That rain was something else though so I'm glad the place had the people it had. My favorite part dealing with the rain, the announcer kept saying Ladd-Pebbles Stadium is an umbrella free place. That's how all sporting venues should be!

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 12:46 pm

My strong impression was that the rain prompted the vast majority of locals to stay home and watch on television. It seemed like 90 percent of the fans in the stadium were partisans of one side or the other -- and the Memphis side was much more full than ours.

It was raining very, very, very hard as the game started, and there were occasional flashes of lightning way off in the distance.

As it turned out, the weather could have been much worse. The way the Weather Channel was talking that morning, I honestly expected them to have to clear the stadium when the lightning storm finally hit Mobile. But it never did.

And it was warm -- very warm. I think it was nearly 70 degrees until about 2 a.m. CST, when a cold front finally moved in. Oddly enough, it didn't get cold until about three hours after the rain had moved on and out of town.

MajorFalcon92 · Post by **MajorFalcon92** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 9:27 pm

yeah, the weather was bad. I do not think I have seen it rain that hard for a game ever. We had some locals sitting behind us & they came to see Omar.

the crowd was not too bad considering the weather.

I think most of the local tickets were for our side since Memphis filled up ther side pretty well.

GMAC Bowl: SELLOUT!!!

GMAC Bowl: SELLOUT!!!

Is that all the falcons that are going?

Re: Is that all the falcons that are going?