CRANE: Peach Bowl grows from pits to major cash crop

New Year’s Eve 1981 was probably the coldest sporting event and evening of my life, spent in 50-yard-line seats in the very top row of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. My maternal grandmother, a Falcon’s season ticket holder, had given me the tickets, but I remember very little about the entire evening other than the biting wind and freezing rain, and my hot date (not quite charmed by the event,…