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MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Historical remembrance and team bonding were the major themes as the Georgia Southern football team had another outstanding day in Montgomery. The Eagles sit just two days away from the program's second bowl game, the 2018 Raycom Media Camellia Bowl against Eastern Michigan.
The entire team spent part of the morning at the Rosa Parks Museum remembering the significance of Parks and her ties to the city of Montgomery. The museum is an active memorial to the life of the civil rights icon and the lessons of the Montgomery Bus Boycott that brought racial integration to transportation and international attention to civil rights. It is located in downtown Montgomery, at the site where Mrs. Parks was arrested, and is the nation's only museum dedicated to Rosa Parks. The museum's collection contains a number of historically significant artifacts including the original fingerprint arrest record of Mrs. Parks, a bus from the 1955 fleet of Montgomery city buses, original works of art including statuary and quilts, court documents and police reports and a restored 1955 station wagon used to transport boycotters.
After a few morning meetings and lunch, the team went back to Huntingdon College for its No Sweat Thursday walk-thru. The brief practice dodged the rain and the Eagles were off the field and back to the hotel quickly.
The evening event was a great time as the student-athletes and coaches ventured to Riverwalk Stadium, home of the Montgomery Biscuits, for a taste of the local flavor. Dreamland BBQ was the headliner as several local eateries fed close to 200 members of the school's travel party.
The ramp-up to the Camellia Bowl hits a fever pitch on Friday with a number of marquee events as Eagle Nation is expected to flood into town. The Alabama Legend's Luncheon brings both teams together for a formal luncheon, a formal press conference will be held, the team picture will be snapped at the Cramton Bowl as the Eagles get their first look at the stadium, and the entire team will head to Friday night's pep rally at the Union Station Train Shed where the GS band and cheerleaders will lea the way. The evening concludes with a Christmas Parade through the streets of Montgomery.
WJCL's Frank Sulkowski will host a live broadcast featuring members of the Georgia Southern Sports Network team at the Aviator Bar, which will serve as the unofficial meet-up place for Georgia Southern fans.
The Raycom Media Camellia Bowl will take place on Saturday, Dec. 15 at 4:30 p.m. (CT)/5:30 p.m. (ET) on ESPN. Tickets are still available through GSEagles.com/Bowl
http://GSEagles.com/Bowl.
