The Numbers Game
I sat in my hotel room Saturday night with the remote control and
stirred the alphabet soup of college football—ABC, CBS, ESPN. All had
great games going, so I surfed the channels, hoping to catch the high
points (or the replays of the high points) of the day's action.
While I watched the Bulldogs, Badgers, and Boilermakers roll to victory,
something began to simmer in my mind. There were a lot of people at
those games. Not only that, it took a lot more people to get ready for
and to clean up after the 56 Division I-A games played on Saturday.
I know you chamber of commerce types are snickering at my naïveté, but
to be honest, I've never considered the "numbers game" before.
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