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BUSINESS, Page 39Business NotesFOOTBALLYour Company Name Here!
When the University of Texas Longhorns meet the University
of Miami Hurricanes in the Cotton Bowl on New Year's Day, the
football teams will have to share billing with a third
powerhouse: Mobil Corp. The oil company's name will be
emblazoned on stadium signs and embedded in the AstroTurf at the
50-yd. line. In fact, the extravaganza has been officially
rechristened the Mobil Cotton Bowl. Mobil earned title rights
to the game for seven years by paying millions of dollars to the
organizers, the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association.
As postseason bowls have proliferated to 19, such major
corporate tie-ins have begun to be the norm. Among them: the
Federal Express Orange Bowl, Mazda Gator Bowl, Poulan/Weed Eater
Independence Bowl and Domino's Pizza Copper Bowl. In El Paso
sports reporters and other locals persisted in calling the John
Hancock Sun Bowl by its old name, the Sun Bowl. So last year the
insurance company got the name changed. Now it is officially the
John Hancock Bowl.