• 9 months ago
Transcript
00:00 Sports Professor Rick Horowitz, another $1.3 trillion business in sports.
00:07 Your Sports News Minute.
00:08 Hard Rock Stadium, New Year's 6, snubbed Florida State against defending national champion
00:14 Georgia.
00:15 Who knows who plays?
00:16 That's the other issue.
00:17 But the economics of this game are not in dispute.
00:21 Forty million dollars for the community from the Orange Bowl and its committee.
00:25 It was FedEx in '89.
00:28 Then it was Discover, and for the last ten years, Capital One, firmly entrenched as a
00:33 sponsor.
00:34 The game itself, the week-long activities, used to be a downtown parade.
00:39 Dave Broward and Palm Beach melded together.
00:42 And now, it is one of the six, but it's in an afternoon before New Year's Eve.
00:47 But don't worry, Orange Bowl committee.
00:50 Next year, the 12-team playoff, the semifinals here.
00:54 After that, the year after, the national championship.
00:58 This game regains its lofty perch.
01:01 Sports Professor Rick Horowitz, Sports News Minute.
01:03 (music)
01:05 (upbeat music)

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