Bowl excitement translates to tickets/donations
12/29/2016 12:00:00 AM | Football
U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- The excitement from Air Force fans leading up to the Nova Home Loans Arizona Bowl has translated into the Falcons' ticket sales and donations. Air Force has distributed its entire allotment of 5,000 tickets and has generated more than $140,000 in its Tickets for Troops campaign.
The Tickets for Troops campaign provides resources so that most deserving service men and women and their family members receive tickets for free to attend the bowl game. Recipients of the tickets are chosen by installation commanders, chief master sergeants, first sergeants or their equivalents. In addition, the bowl game sponsors have donated 8,000 tickets to active, reserve and retired military that have been provided tickets through the bowl's Heroes Program.
Air Force will take on South Alabama at University of Arizona Stadium on Friday, Dec. 30, in Tucson, Ariz. Kickoff is set for 3:30 pm MT. Air Force is playing in its ninth bowl game in the last 10 seasons under coach Troy Calhoun. At 9-3 overall this season, Air Force will be seeking a 10th win which would place the 2016 Falcons in rare territory. The Falcons could become just the seventh 10-win team in Academy history and first since 2014.
The game will be broadcast on KXTU (The CW) in Colorado Springs and KWGN (The CW) in Denver. KWGN is in the majority of the state of Colorado as well in the panhandle of Nebraska and Eastern Wyoming. The game will be televised world-wide on the American Sports Network and the Armed Forces Network. For a complete list. of affiliates carring the game on television, click here
In addition, the multi-media platforms of Twitter and Campus Insiders will carry the game digitally. Watch Live
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