Gisei's Handy Guide to *REAL* Bowl Games

[daidoji_gisei]

This post has no relation to anything of any real importance. However, it does touch on one of my really minor pet peeves, one which a headline on Yahoo! news just reminded me of.

It has come to my attention in the past few years that there are ridiculous numbers of "bowl games" in existence. This is no doubt a clever marketing ploy on someone's part. However, if you are confused as to what exactly is a real bowl game, remember this handy fact: Real bowls are always named after agricultural products. Thus, Rose, Sugar, Cotton, and Orange are real bowls. Fiesta, Hula, Music, Amalgamated Plastics and whatever else are not.

Comments

[yoritomo-reiko.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I consider the Fiesta Bowl to be a real bowl game if for no other reason than it's been around for longer than I have.

I also like the Las Vegas Bowl, but I admit a certain amount of bias to that one.

[helen-keeble.livejournal.com]

I harbour a fond yet unlikely hope that the Las Vegas Bowl is played entirely by Elvis impersonators. _That_ I would go to see...

[yoritomo-reiko.livejournal.com]

Hell, I'd go pay to see that.

Nah, it's just a match up between two of the college football conferences. It's telling that UNLV has only ever been in the Las Vegas Bowl twice. :)

[helen-keeble.livejournal.com]

It took the tags to clue me in as to what you were talking about... and I've LIVED in the States. I can only plead my young age (then), gender, and geekiness as excuses for my utter ignorance. *grin*

(though, if memory serves, my family and I _did_ live opposite a Washington Redskins player at one point... a quick Google suggests that it may have been Art Monk, which I can only work out due to remembering the truly tasteless nickname that only other black men dared to use to his face)

Anyway, I was hoping you were referring to some arcane strategy game known only to bakers, played with the spare contents of the kitchen while waiting for the dough to rise. Disappointment!

Jesse Says....

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You preach it, sister! There are waaaaaay too many bowl games. I can't even tell which ones "are important". It's bad enough I try to follow college football and their half-assed ranking system (which is 98% wrong), but trying to determine how the bowl system even begins to function is more difficuly than a left turn downtown while doing Greek algebra.