FBA 2018 Media Guide FLIP (2)

Raycom Media Camellia Bowl
Street Fest Union Station Train Shed 4 – 6pm
Pep Rally with MAC Union Station Train Shed 5 – 5:30pm
Pep Rally with Sun Belt Union Station Train Shed 5:30 – 6pm
Montgomery Christmas Parade Dexter to Commerce Street 6:15pm
Saturday, December 15, 2018
Fan Fest Paterson Field TBD
Parent’s Luncheon at Fan Fest Paterson Field TBD
MAC Pep Rally Paterson Field 3:30 – 4pm
Sun Belt Pep Rally Paterson Field 4 – 4:30pm
Kick off Cramton Bowl 7pm
Designated team hotels:
MAC – Embassy Suites Montgomery
Sun Belt -- Renaissance
Hotel & Conference Center
Mongtomery Hotel & Spa
300 Tallapoosa St. 201 Tallapoosa Street
Montgomery, AL 36104 Montgomery, AL 36104
334-269-5055 334-481-5000
Fax: 334-269-0360 Fax: 334-481-5005
Designated media hotel:
DoubleTree by Hilton Montgomery Downtown
120 Madison Ave., Montgomery, AL 36104, 334-245-2320, FAX: 334-245-2334
Adrienne Larkin, contact, 334-430-2073, adrienne.larkin@hilton.com
Local airport: Montgomery Regional Airport; Delta, American, US Airways
Local tourism bureau: Montgomery Convention & Visitor Bureau, 300 Water St.,
Montgomery, AL 36104, Dawn Hathcock contact, 334-261-1108 or 800-240-9452,
FAX 334-261-1111, dhathcock@montgomerychamber.com
Prominent area tourist attractions:
Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Alabama State Capitol Building, Civil Rights Memorial & Center, Dexter
Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald Museum, First White House of the
Confederacy, Freedom Rides Museum, Hank Williams Museum, Harriott II Riverboat, Montgomery
Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery Zoo, Rosa Parks Library & Museum
DIRECTIONS
>From main arrival airport to stadium:
(10.3 miles, approximately 15 minutes driving) Exit airport west for 0.5 miles and follow AL 8 East/U.S.
80 East and I-65 North to Herron St., take Exit 172 from I-65 North, turn right onto AL 21/AL 8/U.S. 80
East and continue to follow AL 8/U.S. 80 East, merge onto I-65 North via the ramp to Birmingham for
five miles, take Exit 172 for Herron St. and take slight right onto Herron, Herron turns slightly left and
becomes Bibb St., continue to Madison Ave. for 0.1 mile and stadium will be on the right.
>From main arrival airport to media hotel:
(9.5 miles, approximately 14 minutes driving) Exit airport west for 0.5 miles and follow AL 8 East/U.S.
80 East and I-65 North to Herron St., take Exit 172 from I-65 North, turn right onto AL 21/AL 8/U.S. 80
East and continue to follow AL 8/U.S. 80 East, merge onto I-65 North via the ramp to Birmingham for
five miles, take Exit 172 for Herron St. and take slight right onto Herron, Herron turns slightly left and
becomes Bibb St., continue to Madison Ave. for one mile and hotel will be on the right.
>From media hotel to stadium:
(0.8 miles, approximately 2 minutes driving) Head east on Madison Ave., toward N. Lawrence St. for 0.8
miles and Cramton Bowl will be on the right.
Other Trivia:
-The Cramton Bowl has played host to major league and minor league baseball and plenty
of football games. The stadium was the first in the South to play a football game under
the lights, a night game pitting Cloverdale High against Pike Road High in 1927. That game
drew more than 7,200 and helped prompt a seating expansion in 1929.
- The inaugural Raycom Media Camellia Bowl took its toll on more than the players. South
Alabama coach Joey Jones got banged up on the sidelines after USA tight end Ryan Onkka
caught a ball and fell, his feet coming up and hitting Jones in the face and giving him a
bloody nose. Later in the game, side judge Craig Falkner was hit in the right leg by a flying
object and had to leave the game.
- The Blue-Gray Football Classic called the Cramton Bowl home during its existence, and
the Alabama Crimson Tide played some home games at the stadium from 1922 to 1932
and in various years through 1954.
- The civil rights movement traces its beginnings to Mongtomery and the Cramton Bowl
area. In December 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city
bus, sparking a bus boycott. Ten years later in 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ended the
Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March at the Capitol steps, one block away from the
only church and pulpit he ever ministered from.
-The Wright Brothers brought their aviation deeds to Montgomery in 1910, establishing
the nation’s first school for powered flight.
Major Media in the area:
Montgomery Advertiser WAKA-TV WCOV-TV
Alabama News Network WSFA-TV/Raycom Media
Sports Radio WMSP 740 107.5 FM/1210 The Ticket
– 41 –