Nothing dates you like NCAA bowl names

[Recursion]

I was just talking with a younger cousin about Mississippi State's bowl chances.

Me: "I think the Hall of Fame Bowl makes the most sense"
Cousin: "The what?"
Me: "The Hall of Fame Bowl. Tampa, New Years Day"
Cousin: "You mean the Outback Bowl?"
Me: "The what?"
Cousin: "The Outback Bowl, you geriatric fool." (sends me a link)
Me: "THEY CHANGED THE NAME 25 YEARS AGO?"

[genxlib]

1. You are not alone

I remember it as the HoF as well.

I once thought the playoff system would kill off all the lesser bowls but they seem to have proliferated. I guess we need a sports fix during the second half of December in order to make it through those holidays with the Trumpster family members.

[Ohiogal]

2. Everything is named after a corporation now.

That's the American way, doncha know!

[brewens]

3. I still liked the old days better when New years Day was the football highlight

of the year. I don't give a shit about the playoff thing. Now we get some of the big NFL prospects sitting out the lesser bowl games. Luke Falk did for Washington State in the Holiday Bowl vs Mich St. Great. Travel to the game to watch the possibly next years starter at QB play.

Some of those games are pretty sad. I only watch a lot of them because a dude in my town runs a pool where you pick all the bowl games. It's a total crap shoot. How do you even pick some of those games? I usually scope out what the so-called experts say, then I tend to pick the team that's been hottest, if either of them even finished the year well. I factor in if it's a lot closer venue for one of the teams hoping their fans will show up. Big Bend vs Eastern Oregon in The Chico's Bail Bonds Bowl will be a tough call this year!

[TEB]

4. Thank you

From a 52 year old hugs

[hlthe2b]

5. The "Outback Bowl"? What, is this Australia?

whatever....

[kydo]

6. Like the Tangerine Bowl

Way back when judge "I love beer" kavanaugh was date raping girls, I marched in the Tangerine Bowl Parade and took part in the halftime show. It was brutally freezing, the two teams did not interest me, (Mizzou and Iowa, I am a Fl gal, SEC SEC baby). Even the people from the two teams said it was freezing. It was one of those winters that basically wiped out the citrus crops in central fl. But I regress.

I was in high school then. In Fl, but at the time we lived in Orange Park, I live in Winter Park now. Anyho, my high school band was invited to take part in the Tangerine Bowl as were other high schools from around the country. We collected green stamps to pay for the trip. Yes green stamps still existed then.

The point is, now that bowl is the Capital One Citrus Bowl, even though we don't do citrus in central fl no more because the industry died in the 80's when we had all that cold weather. Which was also when they changed the name of the bowl game. Go figure.

These days that stadium still sucks, even after the upgrades. And they host another bowl game (I forget the name it keeps changing as companies keep going belly up or merge), around the time the state high school football championships use the stadium, which destroys the field for the Citrus Bowl. Don't worry the fans don't get it any easier. The steps for the seating are weird. So weird you should not wear flip flops. When it rains and you are in flip flops and try to get to your seat you fall on your butt, hard, on cement, not fun, it hurts, and everyone laughs at you before they fall.

[Recursion]

7. It's now the "VRBO Bowl", after a timeshare company

Mizzou played Southern Miss in 1982 in that bowl, was that it?

[kydo]

10. We were both wrong

You were right it was Mizzou and Southern Miss. I just remember both teams were basically black and yellow/gold. One thing I for sure remembered was Mizzou, they were the tigers and I stood next to them in the halftime show. The other was an eagle or hawkeye, as I recall the logo as the head of a bird. Also the heavy SEC influence, keeps one conference blind at such a young age. And it was cold. That's my story and I am sticking to it.

But it was Mizzou and Southern Miss. However, it was 1981. That bowl was not a New Year's Day game. It wasn't a big bowl game as that year it was on Dec 19.

I am getting old.

[Sneederbunk]

8. Remember the Blue-Gray Game?

[Recursion]

9. Particularly the year when the "grays" were entirely African American?

That was like '99 or so, I think; it didn't last much longer after that.

[kydo]

11. YES! When my dad was in the Air Force

He was stationed at Gunter Air Force Station in Montgomery AL. I went to Houston Hill jr High School which was literally right across the street from the stadium that the Blue/Gray Game was played.

[Recursion]

12. OMG: Gunter, Columbus, and Meridian: the Pork Triangle

2 AF bases and 1 Naval Air Station that existed for literally no reason except to keep Southern Senators happy.

[kydo]

13. And Maxwell AFB

That is in Montgomery. Gunter was data system design and a very small base. Maxwell was huge. That's were my mom would go to the commissary.

[Hoyt]

14. Remember when it was a big deal to go to the Bluebonnet Bowl.

Back then, all the bowls -- except the Blue Gray BS -- were pretty good games. Nowadays, just about any team above 6-5 can go to a bowl.

[jmowreader]

20. Nowadays, any team above 6-5 HAS to go to a bowl

There are 41 bowls, so you need 82 teams. There are 130 schools in the Football Bowl Subdivision. We're past the point where you HAVE to win more than half your games to go to a bowl.

[House of Roberts]

15. The Hall of Fame Bowl isn't played at Legion Field anymore either.

Since I almost always work second shift at my jobs, and no longer have cable, I don't see those lesser bowl games on ESPN anyway. I lost count of them years ago. I can only keep up with the games on network tv and on holidays.

[Recursion]

16. If they've changed the field, the name, the sponsor, and the seeding

In what sense is it even the "same" bowl?

[House of Roberts]

18. Depends on what changed first, I reckon.

it moved to Tampa, but kept the name. The sponsor changed the name years later.

[whistler162]

17. What there is no more

Studebaker Bowl!

[petronius]

19. I saw today that one of my schools will be in the Cheez-it Bowl

Not sure I'll be able to take that seriously enough to actually watch...