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However, Michael Franco, director of communications at the school said that with an increase in school popularity, after the success of the Boston College football team and quarterback Doug Flutie, the school decided to crack down on stores making money from the Eagle...
Boston College wrote to all the stores which marketed goods with their school emblem and asked them to stop selling those products, according to Franco...
...school sought injunctions against the two stores who did not comply with this request, the Eagle Shop and the Heartbreak Hill Sports Shop, Franco said. Because these shops were located directly across the street from the school's campus, many visitors thought the shops were authorized by Boston College, he said...
...Boston College Bookstore sold many of the same items that the two shops were offering, but Franco said that the stores not owned by the school sold merchandise of inferior quality...
...There was just an overall feeling that sales of those goods of inferior quality would do harm to our image and take funds from the university," said Franco...