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- <title>
- Dec. 31, 1990: Business Notes:Football
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 31, 1990 The Best Of '90
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 39
- Business Notes
- FOOTBALL
- Your Company Name Here!
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- <body>
- <p> When the University of Texas Longhorns meet the University
- of Miami Hurricanes in the Cotton Bowl on New Year's Day, the
- football teams will have to share billing with a third
- powerhouse: Mobil Corp. The oil company's name will be
- emblazoned on stadium signs and embedded in the AstroTurf at the
- 50-yd. line. In fact, the extravaganza has been officially
- rechristened the Mobil Cotton Bowl. Mobil earned title rights
- to the game for seven years by paying millions of dollars to the
- organizers, the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association.
- </p>
- <p> As postseason bowls have proliferated to 19, such major
- corporate tie-ins have begun to be the norm. Among them: the
- Federal Express Orange Bowl, Mazda Gator Bowl, Poulan/Weed Eater
- Independence Bowl and Domino's Pizza Copper Bowl. In El Paso
- sports reporters and other locals persisted in calling the John
- Hancock Sun Bowl by its old name, the Sun Bowl. So last year the
- insurance company got the name changed. Now it is officially the
- John Hancock Bowl.
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- </body>
- </article>
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