In Bowling, this is a X!
By urbanhoustonian at March 29, 2007 | 3:02 PM | Print
Just received an email from an official with the Texas Bowl. I will write more when details appear in the Chronicle. Just want to thank everyone I worked with on this exciting event, as well as, the great people of Houston for making it such a success.
Some great news – we are making a donation to DePelchin Children’s Center today at noon – we hopefully will get some press in the Chronicle or on TV tonight – keep your eye out for it! And you are all a huge part of that. When we first started this venture, nobody thought we would turn a profit this year and DePelchin really came on board just hoping that they would get a lot of awareness out of our relationship. Not only did they get about $1.7 million worth of promotion & PR, but now we are also able to make a significant financial contribution to them today. They are thrilled, we are thrilled and we hope that this gets more great people like you involved with the Bowl game.
Also, we just had our recaps with the conferences (Big 12, Big East, Conference USA) and they were blown away not only by our success story:
- Biggest bowl crowd in Reliant Stadium History!
- $30 million in economic impact to Houston (everyone keeps saying it’s “O.T.C. like” which references that big offshore convention that is here every year).
- 5x more tickets sold before the teams were announced than any Bowl here since it was the Bluebonnet bowl.
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But they were also blown away by that fact that we made a significant profit on the game (which we give back to the schools and DePelchin) in our first year.
Lastly, we just got our “grades” in from both schools & you all (the hosts and hotels) were given EXTREMELY high marks so Congratulations!!
I cannot tell you how proud I am of the people I worked with. Just makes my day to hear stuff like this.
