OB33 Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 Smith trying to arrange Tennessee-Va. Tech matchupAssociated PressBRISTOL, Tenn. -- Racing mogul Bruton Smith reiterated his offer to pay Tennessee and Virginia Tech $20 million each to play a football game at Bristol Motor Speedway, and said Friday he would make a personal pitch to the Volunteers' athletic director.Smith, the billionaire owner of Speedway Motorsports Inc., will host Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton during Saturday night's race at Bristol. He claims that Virginia Tech officials are receptive to the game, and he'll gauge Hamilton's interest during the race.Smith has pitched the game before, and former Tennessee athletic director Doug Dickey was against it."He's gone," Smith said.The proposal would call for the game to be played on artificial turf in Bristol's infield, which Smith said he would raze to stage the game. Any game would have to be held in November, he said, because of Bristol's racing schedule.The allure of a game at Bristol is that the track is located about 120 miles from both campuses and with stadium-style seating, has a capacity of more than 160,000.It is unclear when the game could be played. Tennessee has its schedule set through 2008, and the track hosts the Nextel Cup's Sharpie 500 every year in late August.Smith said he won't beg the schools to accept his offer."They either like the money or they don't," he said.Asked why he was interested in staging a football game, the flamboyant Smith was firm in his response."The world of racing has already been conquered," he said. "We want to move on to something else."-----------------------------------Here's a pic of the raceway for those of you not who choose not to associate yourselves with NASCAR: #CHOMPCHOMPCHOMP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCBoy Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 That would be cool ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeytonManningRocks Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 Nah, what would be cool would be to have the football game going DURING the race! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAD! Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 Nah, what would be cool would be to have the football game going DURING the race! I can just see it now. Jeff Gordon doing the 40 yard dash in 0.41 seconds.... I saw, I came, I left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CC97 Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 Nah, what would be cool would be to have the football game going DURING the race! Perhaps Baseketball predicted Inter-sport play correctly --- Chris Creamer Founder/Editor, SportsLogos.Net "The Mothership" • News • Facebook • X/Twitter • Instagram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFoA Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 Wow, I've thought about them holding any event at the Speedway. That would be freakin awesome if they did it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBGKon Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 I think If I remember correctly, Texas Motor Speedway owners wanted to have the Oklahoma-Texas Red River Shootout at the Speedway's infield, does anyone else remember hearing this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camden Crazy Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 I'm thinking this is going to happen just because both schools would be getting paid more than what they would if this was a BCS game. I've been to Bristol before, and the it wouldn't be the greatest view from the grandstands, but maybe they can add some bleacher seats on the straightaways? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epper Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 this would be AMAZING! ive been to Bristol a few times for the Cup race, and always thought of how it looked like a giant football stadium. the stands are absolutely insanely large. i wonder how they would make the playing field? probably import fieldturf? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jigga Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 I am uneasy about this game taking place. The NCAA has pimped itself out for years to increase revenue at the expense of crowning a national champion on the football field, so it's great that the member institutions got a chance to make some money for themselves, but you all know how the entertainment landscape is, if one group does it, then 50 will. They'll be one of these games every week and we'll be no closer to a playoff. Also, think about all the cheating that goes on now, how bad do you think it will become if a school can get a 20 million dollar game! Yikes... On January 16, 2013 at 3:49 PM, NJTank said: Btw this is old hat for Notre Dame. Knits Rockne made up George Tip's death bed speech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapshot Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 How the hell are the fans going to see the game? It's not a running track surrounding the field, it's a race track. The closest fans would be what, at least 500 yards away from the action? You'd have a better view watching a basketball game in the middle of a football field. Back-to-Back Fatal Forty Champion 2015 & 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAD! Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 You'd have a better view watching a basketball game in the middle of a football field. pssst.... Don't give any more ideas I saw, I came, I left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapshot Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 You'd have a better view watching a basketball game in the middle of a football field. pssst.... Don't give any more ideas What, you forget the Commonwealth Classic hockey game (or whatever it was called) for Edmonton vs. Montreal? And Michigan/Michigan State hockey at Michigan State's football stadium? Back-to-Back Fatal Forty Champion 2015 & 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epper Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 How the hell are the fans going to see the game? It's not a running track surrounding the field, it's a race track. The closest fans would be what, at least 500 yards away from the action? You'd have a better view watching a basketball game in the middle of a football field. no no, Bristol is not a huge speedway. Its only a 1/2 mile around, not 2.5 miles like a Daytona or Indy. Sure, the grandstands would be further away than normal, but its not 500 yards like you said, and i wouldn't doubt they'd get a truckload of fans to this thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMMF Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 You'd have a better view watching a basketball game in the middle of a football field. pssst.... Don't give any more ideas What, you forget the Commonwealth Classic hockey game (or whatever it was called) for Edmonton vs. Montreal? And Michigan/Michigan State hockey at Michigan State's football stadium? Or even MSU/Kentucky, I believe it was, at Ford Field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAD! Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 You'd have a better view watching a basketball game in the middle of a football field. pssst.... Don't give any more ideas What, you forget the Commonwealth Classic hockey game (or whatever it was called) for Edmonton vs. Montreal? And Michigan/Michigan State hockey at Michigan State's football stadium? Or even MSU/Kentucky, I believe it was, at Ford Field. D'oh, I forgot about that. Let's not forget all those final fours played in domed stadiums. I saw, I came, I left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMMF Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 You'd have a better view watching a basketball game in the middle of a football field. pssst.... Don't give any more ideas What, you forget the Commonwealth Classic hockey game (or whatever it was called) for Edmonton vs. Montreal? And Michigan/Michigan State hockey at Michigan State's football stadium? Or even MSU/Kentucky, I believe it was, at Ford Field. D'oh, I forgot about that. Let's not forget all those final fours played in domed stadiums. True but even then they usually don't use the whole stadium for Final Fours as shown by the seating chart for this years Final Four in the RCA Dome:The game at Ford Field used all the seats: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH42XCC Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 Don't be surprised if a Georgia-Georgia Tech football game takes place on the infield of Atlanta Motor Speedway or an Arizona-Arizona State game at Bank One Ballpark, a Washington-Washington State game at Safeco Field, or even a California-Stanford game at SBC Park. Heck, don't be surprised if an Army-Navy game comes to Shea Stadium (Flushing, NY). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnWis97 Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 In 20 years, I wonder if any big rivalries will take place ON CAMPUS. It's what makes college football have the greatest regular season. Disclaimer: If this comment is about an NBA uniform from 2017-2018 or later, do not constitute a lack of acknowledgement of the corporate logo to mean anything other than "the corporate logo is terrible and makes the uniform significantly worse." BADGERS TWINS VIKINGS TIMBERWOLVES WILD POTD (Shared) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmackman Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 Okay here's an idea. Let's say I'm really rich, and I'm going to pay Florida and FSU $30 million each to play their game in my front yard so that I don't have to drive all the way to Gainesville or Tallahassee. "Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be eaten. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you'd better be running." - Unknown | Check out my articles on jerseys at Bacon Sports Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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