Of course, Dallas, Detroit, one rotating host and three others take up something like nine hours of television time while you indulge in the greatest holiday of the year and prepare for battle at Walmart the next morning or wherever your Black Friday battleground of choice is that year.
I see all that and think, "I'll have some of that, thanks."
It has to start somewhere. Why not this year? Why not San Antonio?
Let's give the people something other to do than eat and watch Cowboy football. Give people an option other than enduring the Detroit Lions game and fighting through a day with annoying relatives. Let them spend the day with friends and food and live football downtown once every two years.
Thursday is for turkey and football. Friday is for shopping. Saturday is for recovering. Sunday is for flying back home.
Some people think that we won't get good attendance because a bunch of UTSA students will be back home in Houston or the Valley or wherever. So what? This game isn't to get one good day of attendance. We'll already reach 60K on opening day. Later, when those students become alums and nostalgia is taking hold of them as they begin their lives in the real world with all of its responsibilities they'll take the opportunity to come back and make an event of it. Current San Antonians will have another event to come out to.
It has got to start somewhere, though. If we don't consider it prominant and worthy of a place on the holiday then why should anyone else?
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Unfortunately we will likely be at the mercy the World Wide Leader. The point still remains.
