The BMS game: digging a little deeper

So the Bristol Motor Speedway game with Tennessee is going to happen after all, unless something breaks down at the last instant.  But generally, once negotiations reach the point where the news is leaked to the media ahead of time — and the Speedway has even called a press conference next week — you can feel pretty confident that they’re going to pull it off. For all I know, the contracts have already been signed.

Your first impression on hearing about the game is something along the lines of “Wow! 160,000 people at a football game! And Virginia Tech will be one of the teams! That’s cool!”

That’s right. It is cool.

And then the questions start coming to mind. Too many questions to answer.

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