By Rob Landry
Sports Columnist
The fact leaked this week that the actual turnstile attendance for the Tulane-Texas El Paso game on Oct 15 was 973 people.
No, you don’t need to go get your eyes checked, 973 people walked into the New Orleans – now Mercedes Benz – Superdome on that glorious Saturday afternoon.
That same day LSU was playing on the road against a struggling Tennessee team in front of more than 100,000.
Now it’s not fair to compare LSU and Tulane attendance, as they are in completely separate universes. But here are a few events that might be a better benchmark for the Green Wave to begin setting as, “future attendance goals to reach.”
- A John Curtis Christian high school football game
- An AAU All-Star basketball game
- A Baptist church service in southern Louisiana
- Time the Tennessee band plays Rocky Top
- An 8:30 am class in the Cox building on a Friday morning
- A midnight premiere for a Twilight movie
- Reggie’s on a Thursday night
- A Kindergarten graduation
- A wedding in Louisiana or Alabama on the night of Nov 5
- Game Stop at midnight on the release date for Call of Duty
- A New Orleans Saints summer mini camp practice
- The BRPD drunk tank the morning after an LSU home game
- A Swine Palace production
- The Occupy Baton Rouge movement
- A Nickelback concert
- Number of pitching changes Tony LaRussa has made this postseason
- Hairs in Brain Wilson’s beard
- Attendance at a Florida Marlins game
- Amount of Aaron Rodgers title belt celebrations this season
- Times Bear Bryant is shown on the jumbotron at an Alabama home game
These are just a few examples, but hopefully some of them might help put Tulane back on the right track to hitting four digits in actual game attendance.
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I want to play! Thing that are smarter than an LSU grad.
A snail.
A monkey.
A zombie.
A person who has had their brain removed.
Corndogs.
Things that can move.
Steven,
That may be true, but more people would gladly turn up to watch a monkey take a test than watch a member of Tulane’s football team play a game in the super dome. For such a fine institution I would say that the Green Wave’s ability to market it’s athletics program is on par with a the marketing strategy of a 7 year old trying to sell lemonade. Doesn’t say much about the intelligence of the employees that Tulane is hiring, considering what a great university it is…
Great analogy Stuart. They sure can’t market themselves.
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