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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: IBM OS/2 Fiesta Bowl
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.231141.22402@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1h90c7INNkmn@chnews.intel.com> <697@riscy.simplot.com> <1992Dec24.145156.7787@panix.com> <Bzs0nG.6uu@unx.sas.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:11:41 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- In <Bzs0nG.6uu@unx.sas.com> sasghw@pica.unx.sas.com (Greg Wust) writes:
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-
- >In article <1992Dec24.145156.7787@panix.com>, os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.) writes:
- >|> In <697@riscy.simplot.com> rshelley@riscy.simplot.com (Robert Shelley) writes:
- >|>
- >|> >Of course, but, that means OS Bowl 1 would be:
- >|> > OS/2 v DOS
- >|>
- >|> >That isn't fair though, when dos passed the ball, all
- >|> >the players would stop! When the center hiked the ball
- >|> >for that matter!
- >|>
- >|> A friend of mine said she heard on the radio that IBM signed a contract to
- >|> allow them to sponsor some major TV event. I am almost sure that it was a
- >|> sporting event. Can someone confirm this?
- >|>
- >|> If this is true, there would be a *definate* opportunity for OS/2 commercials
- >|> (and maybe they won't put any insomnia cures out of business).
- >|>
-
- >Yes - this is true. But, IBM's size does them in again. Seems they
- >started in contract negotiations over a year ago when Arizona was going
- >to vote on the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday which caused them the loss
- >of the SuperBowl. I guess IBM assumed it would either pass this time
- >or would not affect college's. BUT, the referendum was voted down so
- >Arizona does not have a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and because of it,
- >no colleges will sign up except little dunks like Arkansas Central U or
- >some odd one.
-
- Man, you really should get out more. Fiesta Bowl (Tempe, AZ) this
- year is the University of Colorado (Big Eight and all that -- not
- exactly a 'little dunk', what with some 30k students or so, although
- they DID used to say we were kind of odd ;-)) and Syracuse (ranked #6
- in the nation this year, I think).
-
- Yep, sure sounds like people are avoiding the Fiesta Bowl in droves.
-
- --
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- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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