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College Football Playoff opens NY Stock Exchange bell

Feature

December 15, 2015

| Taylor Garrett

This morning ESPN visited the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to toast The College Football Playoff on New Year’s Eve. To mark the occasion hosts of College GameDay, Desmond Howard and Rece Davis, rang the Opening Bell®. They were joined by Bill Hancock, Executive Director of the College Football Playoff and George Zimmer, of Generation Tux, as well as ESPN’s President, Global Sales & Marketing Ed Erhardt, EVP and Chief Financial Officer Christine Driessen, Executive Vice President, Programming and Scheduling Burke Magnus, Emeka Ofodile and Erin Thornton and four members of the sales and marketing team who donned our exclusive New Year’s Eve Collection Tuxedos for the occasion.

College GameDay team and ESPN employees open the New York Stock Exchange.

(Credit: NYSE/Valerie Caviness)
(Credit: NYSE/Valerie Caviness)

Post contribution from Amy Phillips.