For many years, it seemed like a pipe dream for a college football bowl game to not only come to New York, but to have lasting power. But when the Yankees made plans to build the new Yankee Stadium, college football was going to be a staple at the Bombers’ new home. Because that’s what “The Boss” wanted. “We always believed it,” said Yankees president Randy Levine. “George Steinbrenner believed it because, as I’ve said over and over again, when we built this stadium, he insisted that it was built to accommodate college football.
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