St. Petersburg Bowl Tickets - Touchdowns on Tampa Bay
The second annual St. Petersburg Bowl will kick off on December 19, 2009 and will likely feature teams from the Big East and the Conference USA conferences. After a successful debut in 2008, this year’s bowl looks to again be an exciting event. The game is played at Tropicana Field, famously known as the home of the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball. If for some reason a team from either the Big East or C-USA conference can attend the bowl, a team from the Sun Belt conference will likely play.
This year’s game will be televised on ESPN and will be one of the first bowl games of the year, sharing opening day with the New Mexico Bowl, which will kick off only a few hours earlier. Fans in the Tampa and St. Petersburg area will be able to see a FBS college bowl game right in their back yard, and the inaugural bowl featured local team South Florida winning over the Memphis Tigers. While some fans think the bowl game system should be replaced with a playoff system, for now the bowl system allows teams to enjoy a postseason.
The St. Petersburg Bowl is played at Tropicana Field, which is primarily a baseball park, which means that seating can be awkward. This is often the case with multiple-use stadiums, but a new Rays ballpark may be in the works, and if so, the game will likely be moved. However, it is not uncommon for football games to share time with baseball, and cities must strongly consider multi-use stadiums in order to fully leverage the tax dollars spent on sports stadiums.
The St. Petersburg Bowl is one of several owned by ESPN, and the network will organize and televise the game once again. ESPN’s other bowls include the New Mexico Bowl, Armed Forces Bowl, Maaco Las Vegas Bowl, Hawaii Bowl and the PapaJohns.com Bowl. With several bowl games under their belt, ESPN is becoming proficient and promoting and organizing college football bowl games, and it’s possible they may organize more bowl games in the future.
Last year’s inaugural St. Petersburg Bowl featured local South Florida against C-USA’s Memphis Tigers in a rout, where USF quarterback Matt Grothe torched the Tigers for 236 yards and three touchdowns. Grothe walked away with a win and the Most Outstanding Player award as his Bull won 41-14.
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