Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl to Be First College Football Game Sponsored by Cryptocurrency
Although pop culture outlets often associate cryptocurrency with computer geeks, Bitcoin and Dogecoin have each made inroads into the athletic community. This year, both the NBA's Sacramento Kings and the MLS's San Jose Earthquakes have announced plans to accept Bitcoin payments. For its part, Dogecoin has sponsored both the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team and NASCAR driver Josh Wise. Now, Bitcoin will make its way into a new sport-college football-via the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl to Be First College Football Game Sponsored by Cryptocurrency. While most of the....
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Merchant bitcoin payments processor BitPay has announced that it will sponsor the St. Petersburg Bowl, an annual college postseason football game sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), through 2016. This year's game will kick off at Tropicana Field, home of Major League Baseball's Tampa Bay Rays, on 26th December under a new name. The bowl was previously sponsored by chain restaurant Beef 'O' Brady's and USB provider magicJack. Thanks to BitPay sponsorship, however, the bowl will now be known as the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl. BitPay hopes the sponsorship will....
ESPN Events has announced that Atlanta, Georgia-based BitPay will serve as the new title sponsor of the annual St. Petersburg Bowl - an NCAA-sanctioned post-season college football game that has been taking place since 2008. BitPay, renowned for its business of allowing merchants to easily accept bitcoin payments and convert them instantly to local currency, will have the game known as the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl beginning with this year's game, slated to be held on the 26th of December at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. "Our goal is to continue to move bitcoin into the....
Dogecoin grabbed a lot of attention for the cryptocurrency space by sponsoring a NASCAR driver, now Bitpay is putting up some major bucks to get some mainstream media attention on the far more popular Bitcoin, by buying the naming rights to an NCAA college football bowl game. For our international/non sports fan audience: Bowl games are played every year in college football after the regular season, typically in lieu of a playoff system. Teams are placed in different bowl games depending on where they were ranked in their conference that year. While the bowl games do finish up the year and....
The 2015 edition of the St Petersburg Bowl will not be known as the Bitcoin St Petersburg Bowl, according to ESPN. A representative from the TV news source would not comment as to whether the move foretells a sponsorship change for this year's event, or if it is currently seeking a new sponsor for the 2015 bowl game. Last year's event was sponsored by bitcoin processor BitPay, which inked a three-year deal to brand the college football playoff. The spokesperson told CoinDesk: "The decision to rebrand the event to the St. Petersburg Bowl was a mutual one between both BitPay and ESPN." While....
Yes, it's true. In the midst of the most exciting time of the year in college football, bitcoin is making its mark. What was previously called the Beef O' Brady's Bowl, will now be known as the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl for the next three years. BitPay, one of the largest bitcoin payment service providers will serve as the title sponsor of the NCAA Football game, which will take place at Tropicana Field, the home of the Tampa Bay Rays. BitPay has been very successful since its founding in 2009, and with over 33,000 merchants, the company is playing a pivotal role in the mainstream....