Big Game Tonight

[charsibb]

INT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tigers win!

[NewEnglandBull]

Bam! Interception game over

[bullsfan27]

ball game. that pic seals it for memphis

[charsibb]

Thank you Memphis.

[charsibb]

Houston, Navy, and Memphis are going to have a real battle for the West crown.

[charsibb]

Cards and Niners unis are FUGLY!

[namuh-bull]

18 minutes ago, charsibb said:

 

...Looks like it's the other way 'round

It looks like you are right.  Here's an interesting page for a number of reasons.

 

http://www.tampapix.com/tampastadium.htm

"...The architectural firm of William Watson and Company designed Tampa Stadium.  The company chose to base their design of the stadium on the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee."

 

Here is another very interesting tidbit.

"In 1961 Mayor Julian Lane commissioned a study on the feasibility of a football stadium in Tampa. The University of South Florida was considered as a site, but the relatively new school did not want the stadium.  There was not enough support for the plan; USF was in its infancy then and Dr. John Allen (president of USF at the time) was not an athletics type guy.  He knew that if the stadium was built there, he wouldn’t have a choice but to support athletics at the school. In addition to Dr. Allen’s hesitancy, there was little public support for a tax-funded stadium. So the building of a Tampa football venue was shelved."

 

We could have had an OCS decades ago.

 

Go Bulls!

 

[TallyBull]

Oh. No.Mike White fumbles.

[NewEnglandBull]

WCU 52 LTe h 55. Mike White fumbles the ball. Ol' White is still soft. 

[charsibb]

 

3 minutes ago, namuh-bull said:

It looks like you are right.  Here's an interesting page for a number of reasons.

 

http://www.tampapix.com/tampastadium.htm

"...The architectural firm of William Watson and Company designed Tampa Stadium.  The company chose to base their design of the stadium on the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee."

 

Here is another very interesting tidbit.

"In 1961 Mayor Julian Lane commissioned a study on the feasibility of a football stadium in Tampa. The University of South Florida was considered as a site, but the relatively new school did not want the stadium.  There was not enough support for the plan; USF was in its infancy then and Dr. John Allen (president of USF at the time) was not an athletics type guy.  He knew that if the stadium was built there, he wouldn’t have a choice but to support athletics at the school. In addition to Dr. Allen’s hesitancy, there was little public support for a tax-funded stadium. So the building of a Tampa football venue was shelved."

 

We could have had an OCS decades ago.

 

Go Bulls!

 

John Allen was great for the school in many ways, but he absolutely missed the boat on athletics.