((ht: ajc.com))Hmmm....talk about think a bit outside the box. Either that or it's a desperate attempt to draw some sort of college football (SEC) audience.
Atlanta sports talk radio station 92.9 the game has taken the unusual step of being the local affiliate for the University of Alabama's football team.
Mind you Georgia Tech is based in Atlanta and the Georgia Bulldogs are a mere 70 miles away and are the assumed kings of Atlanta areas sports.
But The Game has no college teams. Both Tech and UGA are spoken for in the Atlanta market and they aren't leaving their homes. So that left 92.9 with few, if any options. They are a fledgling Sports talk station in the market (a market with 2 other sports stations--none of the 3 are very good), and want to in some way, draw a fall audience.
To their credit the station did acquire the rights to Atlanta Hawks games, not a huge get, but a franchise never the less.
More on this from the AJC.com Radio blog RIGHT HERE
No, this really doesn't mean a whole lot to anyone outside Atlanta, but then again, that is where we are based.
But it speaks volume's to the reach of College Football in general and SEC football in particular. Yes, there's a significant Alabama fan base in Metro Atlanta, but no more so than the University of Florida's.
And more importantly, it gives the Crimson Tide a bigger voice in a city brimming with high school football talent. Talent that coach Nick Saban has said publicly he covets and talent that if they know where to look, will get full-on exposure to his teams games.
For you 'Bama fans out there, enjoy a fan made "Hype Video":
Can't argue about the quality in our City.
ReplyDelete790 was the best until the "joke gone bad" this summer.
As a Bama alum in Atlanta, I love it.