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A pre-game view from the booth
By Ryan Haddox
The line out of Las Vegas when the Armed Forces Bowl matchup was announced was a “Pick ‘Em”, or in Layman’s terms, a toss up. The game is one of the more evenly matched contests of the 2011 bowl season, pitting the 9-4 BYU Cougars against the 8-4 Tulsa Golden Hurricane. Both teams come to Dallas out of state, and ESPN color commentator and former Heisman trophy winner Andre Ware talked about what kind of experience it is to get to showcase this game in a football hotbed like Texas.
“It’s a good opportunity because it gives it some...
Activities Galore
By Diandra Marquez
What a great way to kick off this years Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl with the ninth annual VIP Party.
The Westcott Parking Lot near Gerald J. Ford Stadium on the SMU campus was full of activities for people of all ages. You could feel the level of pride in the air as different branches of the U.S. military came together and showed everyone how they served our country. There were many different activities for everyone to participate in and get a feel of what it took to be a soldier and to serve in the U.S. military. Located...
The Other Side of Going Independent: A Player’s Perspective
By Ryan Haddox
When BYU finally made the decision to take its football team out of the Mountain West Conference in the summer of 2010 and on into the unknown land of conference independence, everyone had an opinion.
Some fans gleamed with excitement, some were fraught with uncertainty. The BYU board of trustees, the school administration, the coaching staff and everyone else in Provo had an opinion on what they were jumping into.
One perspective that got mildly over looked that summer is an important one, the player perspective. While a football game is a football game, going from playing for conference championships...
Transforming Ford Stadium
By Tyler Scott
SMU’s Gerald J. Ford Stadium experienced an about-face transformation as BYU and Tulsa were set to face off in the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl on Friday Dec. 30 at 11 AM.
The most noticeable changes to the stadium included the large Armed Forces Bowl logo badging covering the red SMU Mustang on the 50-yard line. Tulsa boasted it’s signature royal blue accompanied by white letters in the south end zone, as BYU displayed it’s own BYU blue with white “BYU” lettering in the north end zone.
Bell Helicopter, now in its ninth season as the bowl’s sponsor, made its...
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