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Football Fever Hits The Buckeye State
Moran says that football fans will have pumped more than 140-million dollars into the local economy by the end of the weekend. The game is sold out and scalpers are asking upwards of one-thousand-dollars per seat.
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(2003-01-03)
CLEVELAND, OHIO
(WCPN) -
Football fans in Northeast Ohio are g-earing up for a full weekend of Browns and Buckeyes. Tonight, Ohio State has a chance to win its first outright national title since 1968 with a win in the Fiesta Bowl. That game will be played against the University of Miami at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. Although it's a neutral site, Mark Moran, news director for K-J-Z-Z in Phoenix, says the Buckeyes should feel like the home team.Moran says that football fans will have pumped more than 140-million dollars into the local economy by the end of the weekend. The game is sold out and scalpers are asking upwards of one-thousand-dollars per seat.
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