College fans enjoy opportunity to watch football game for first time at downtown ballpark; Port of San Diego Parade buoyed by balloons; Bands battle it out
On Tuesday afternoon, Kent Thompson was looking out over the sea of passenger baggage that crowded the terminal at Dallas’ Love Field Airport.
“When you’re in the front row on the other side,” he said, “you can literally touch the goalpost. It’s unheard of.”“It’s a great venue,” said Thompson, who was hosting a client appreciation event for Wisdom Wealth Management.As fans began to fill the ballpark, the dominant color was Oregon green. By a large margin. There was one section of the Tar Heels’ Carolina Blue, just beyond the right-field foul pole.
There are three other bowl games being played this year at MLB ballparks — the Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl at New York’s Yankee Stadium, Guaranteed Rate Bowl at Phoenix’s Chase Field and the Wasabi Fenway Bowl at Boston’s Fenway Park — and each venue is a little more roomy. The Holiday Bowl assigns its parade director each year to watch the Macy’s parade, count the number of balloons and report back to make sure the Holiday parade has more inflatables.
Except two hours later there was no football, with the game canceled because of COVID issues within the UCLA football program. The battle ended peacefully — unofficially declared a draw — though it seemed like fighting words at one point when Oregon had the audacity to play “Sweet Carolina.” Or was it “Sweet Caroline?”The game’s venue change guaranteed that this would be the smallest crowd in Holiday Bowl history since seating for Petco Park was 41,000 for the bowl game.
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