It has been a challenge. But our staff and our volunteers have really worked hard to put it together and we've been able to make it happen.

200

To bring the Midshipmen and all the pageantry they bring to a football game is just a natural.

174

The first call I'm looking for the day after the game is what was our rating. It's enormously important and getting more so.

158

It's all new money. And it can be a significant thing for the community if we can get people to stay for two or three days.

149

I certainly didn't think (the Poinsettia Bowl) would happen as fast as it did. The day after we made our presentation (to the NCAA), they called in and said, 'Congratulations, you've got a second bowl game in San Diego.' We were confident we could pull it off, but never did we think it would happen this soon.

129

We didn't want to see the event end. The Holiday Bowl put a lot of love and sweat into building the Speed Festival. We offered the team all the staff knowledge and help we could give them. We'll have volunteers out there this weekend to help. We hope it works out.

126

We were hoping it would follow the Holiday Bowl tradition of a high-scoring game and a lot of yards gained. The only pattern we've seen in the Holiday Bowl is people don't turn their televisions off.

124

We want to have two major bowl games in town. And it's been the luck of this town that we've had high-scoring games.

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