
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, August 21, 1993                   TAG: 9308210168
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: METRO 
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DISNEY OFFERS COLLEGE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

The company that deals in fairy tales now wants to create a football game that's every college fan's fantasy.

Walt Disney Co. has offered to stage a postseason football game that would cap an eight-day festival and crown a national college champion in Anaheim, Calif., in January 1995.

The Disneyland Classic and the surrounding hoopla would lure 49,000 visitors, who would spend $125.5 million, Disney planners said at a meeting of local business leaders. That's about $5 million less than what the 1993 Super Bowl generated in Pasadena, Calif.

First, though, Disney must persuade a majority of NCAA Division I-A college presidents to support a national championship game.

by CNB