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Fans still booking Virtual Bowl "seats"
Bonesville.net Staff
Report
If you
thought interest in the
Virtual Bowl had dried up, you're
wrong.
The ordinary bowl season
ended with Southern Cal and LSU splitting the national title, but the
outcome has yet to be determined in the push for extraordinary
postseason achievement by East Carolina diehards.
The Virtual Bowl, the
cyber-influenced creation of
Purple-and-Gold aficionado Doug Groome, has generated "ticket" sales of
$19,795, according to information supplied Friday by the Pirate Club.
The new total represents an increase of more than $2,700 since the
previous tally of $17,005 was reported.
A burst in sales after the
Christmas and New Year's holidays easily boosted the bottom line beyond
$18,000, the first of multiple benchmarks announced by Pirate Club
executives Dennis Young and Matt Maloney when ECU's official booster
club signed on to the project.
The $18,000 level was
established as the first objective for the Virtual Bowl because that
amount happened to the shortfall in the Pirate Club's drive to to
fulfill its scholarship-underwriting pledge for the year.
Now that Target No. 1 has
been met and left in the dust, the next set of goals involves selling
enough tickets to accommodate Young and Maloney, respectively, with a
shaved dome and a Mohawk haircut.
You can help ECU's
athletic scholarship fundraising organization emerge as the winner of
the Virtual Bowl by
placing your "ticket" order
online,
or by calling the Pirate Club at 252.328.4540 to reserve your "seats" by
phone.
02/23/2007 11:20 AM
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