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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-26-09 11:09 PM
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The Emerald Bowl, kind of nutty:
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The Emerald Bowl is a post-season college football bowl game certified by the NCAA that has been played annually at 40,800-seat AT&T Park (home of the San Francisco Giants) in San Francisco, California, since 2002. It was previously known as the San Francisco Bowl and its official name was the Diamond Walnut San Francisco Bowl in recognition of the corporate title sponsor, Diamond of California, from 2002 to 2003. (The company is now known as Diamond Foods, Inc., with Emerald of California its primary snack nut brand, and as such remains the title sponsor.)

At the time of its launch in 2002 as the San Francisco Bowl the game was one of two college bowl games to be played in baseball-specific stadiums, joining the Insight Bowl (which was played at Chase Field from 2000-2005). (Several other bowl games have been played at stadiums with both baseball and football tenants, with the Orange and International bowls being two examples.) In 2006 and 2007 the Emerald Bowl was the only game played in a baseball-specific stadium, as the Insight Bowl had moved to Sun Devil Stadium following the Fiesta Bowl's move to University of Phoenix Stadium. In 2008 the game again became one of two bowls at baseball-specific sites as it was joined by the St. Petersburg Bowl in St. Petersburg, Florida, which is played at the Tampa Bay Rays' home stadium of Tropicana Field.

Since AT&T Park is not normally used for football, the makeshift arrangements of the playing field require both teams to be on the same sideline, separated by a barrier at the 50-yard line.

The organizers has announced that the Emerald Bowl will host the Pac-10’s sixth-place team with the WAC’s first, second or third-place team in 2010 and 2013. Then in 2011, Army will play against the Pac-10 team, with Navy in 2012, provided they are eligible.
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fishnfla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-26-09 11:48 PM
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1. the airplane ad could use a nuts on fire thing
Edited on Sat Dec-26-09 11:49 PM by fishnfla
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Onceuponalife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-30-09 02:15 AM
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2. Shouldn't it be the Balco Bowl..
if it's at China Basin?
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