The Army-Navy football game is coming to Southern New England.
The 2023 game will be played at Gillette Stadium next December.
This will mark the first time since 1983 that the annual game is being played somewhere other than Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC or East Rutherford, New Jersey.
The game will be held in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party and the 225th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the USS Constitution.
Providence expected to benefit by the game.
So is the state of Rhode Island.
There is a connection.
During the Civil War the Naval Academy was temporarily relocated to Newport because of the proximity of Annapolis to the confederate territory.
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