Summary
As you lurch toward baggage claim at Jacksonville International Airport, the red neon sign looms large: "403 DAYS TO THE SUPER BOWL [XXXIX in February 2005]." Other than gaggles of chattering Maryland and West Virginia fans, there is little indication today's Gator Bowl - or, to give commercialism its dastardly due, the Toyota Gator Bowl - is only one day away.
Similar signs greet visitors at the major hotels and the downtown Riverfront area, which one grumpy Marylander likened to "a poor man's Inner Harbor." The 59th Gator Bowl - once the nation's premier second-tier New Year's affair after Rose, Orange, Cotton and Sugar - now seems like an afterthought to many in its own back yard. Which it might be, too, for Maryland's perplexing football team.See the full content of this document
Extract
Fridge's Monster Needs to Be Fed
When his Terrapins dash out to confront West Virginia this afternoon before a record Alltel Stadium throng of 79,000, coach Ralph Friedgen might have both fingers crossed behind his ample back. He won't kno...
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