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Bowl Season

20 December, 201020 December, 2010 Drew LittonDrew Litton 6 Comments
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Tis the season. There are so many bowl games now it’s hard to figure out which is what with who. I went to UTEP. They played (figuratively speaking) in the “New Mexico” Bowl against BYU. Seriously. The “New Mexico” Bowl? Is that the best name they can come up with? No big name sponsor? No fruit or vegetable or plant name attached to it? How about the Sadie’s Green Chile Bowl (Sadie’s is one of New Mexico’s finest dining establishments.) Even better how about the Tomisita’s Tamale Bowl? Tomisitas is my favorite restaurant in Santa Fe. The Tamales in red sauce are to die for. Top it off with a frozen blue margarita a bowl of green and pintos, a side of posole and that’s pretty much my wish for the last meal I want to eat before departing to the great Tamale Kitchen in the Sky. My point is, there are just way too many bowls. How many will you watch? 15? 10? 5? 1? None of the above? Let me know. I’m curious.

As for me, I taped the “New Mexico” Bowl. I saw the score before I deleted it. It brought back too many nightmares from those 82-6 beatings by BYU that UTEP had to endure during my days in college. I’m sure I’ll watch the one that isn’t really a national championship game, because they don’t have playoffs to get there, but they call it that anyway bowl. It’s the one with the team sponsored by Nike vs the team that Cam Newton went to because his father couldn’t get a higher bidder. The one that is too good to share New Years day with the other bowls so they move it to the second week of January so they ruin the student athletes entire Winter break.

That’s about the only one for me. Maybe the one LSU plays in because my brother Allan lives in Baton Rogue and Pete Maravich went there. I honestly don’t know who they are playing or in what corporate sponsored bowl the BCS saw fit to assign them to. Now if they ever blow up the BCS and go to a playoff system, it’s a whole other matter. I’d become one with the couch and wouldn’t move until it was over. Not even for Tamales. But, let’s face it, UTEP stands a better chance of beating BYU in football long before University presidents come to their senses and have playoffs. I’m convinced we could solve the whole federal budget crisis by just having the proceeds of the first ever college football playoffs go to paying it all off. But until then, we’re stuck with “New Mexico” bowls. Forgive me. But I think I’ll go buy some tickets to “True Grit”

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6 thoughts on “Bowl Season”

  2. Dear Mr. Litton,

    In this day of corperation bowl gaames I am hoping someday to see either the “Hooters Bowl” or the “Victoria Secret Bowl”. Not only would it make the bowl game more interesting it would give cartoonists like you even more fodder for your drawings.

    All the best

    Louis

  3. Good morning from Omaha,

    Wow you are fired up about the over abundance of bowl games. I don’t know which games I will watch…MO and Iowa could be good if either team has enough players eligible to play, NE plays WA again? Some of the news year day games sound good..tcu and wisconsin(speed against strength) and sometimes you watch football to give your mind something to do unless you want to sit around and think about how bad things are economic wise, how cold and snowy it is, how far in debt you are in, how much you miss your kids, football seems to fill the blank spots in my life. AND no I am not that depressed.

    There are I think 65 bowl games, I am not exaggerating! that means that there are 130 football teams still playing and of those only about 22 teams are worth watching.

    way over board with the bowls.

    strive for excellence, nothing but your best.

    Gene

  5. I really miss the days when Jan 1 was a great day for getting with friends and watching good football bowl games and then the season was done.

  6. Among the great Ironies is that the overabundance of bowls actually supports the case for a playoff. BCS backers have long claimed that a playoff would kill the mid and minor bowls, but nothing could be further from the truth. The BCS bowls (which host playoff-caliber teams) are the only games that matter in the minds of the causal fan, which leave the other 30 bowls meaningless in the national title picture…but also well-attended, lucrative and – I mean this – mostly watchable. The NIT may be 32 teams in search of nothing, but it still makes money and attracts schools after all these years.

    Laugh though we do at R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl, The GoDaddy.com Bowl, the Insight Bowl, The Champ Sports Bowl and the Humanitarian Bowl, they’ve all been with us for over a decade now. And they’ll probably still be here, playoff system or no.

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