Rod's Football Bowling Take

Between a break in watching college football bowl games, we had a chance to take our Christmas decorations down for the year. Inside decorations I should say. It is down right frigid to take down the outside decorations. Maybee sometime in May the snow will be melted enough I can get on the roof and get those lights down. Amazing. It took 2 hours to undo that it to close to 8 hours to do back on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Thirty some bowl games this year. I did not watch all of them. I did watch every play of the Holiday Bowl of course and was very proud to be a Husker fan. Gone are the days when there were just 7 bowl games. 4 on New Years Day and 3 others. New Years Day bowls conisted of the Cotton, Sugar, Orange and Rose. The other 3 that were played between Christmas Day and News Year Day were the Liberty, Bluebonnet (later renamed Astro Blue Bonnett)and Gator. The Liberty and Gator were moved to Monday Night's after NFL Monday Night Football ended. The Astro Bluebonnet was on New Years Eve. There were some others a little bit later that didn't make it. The Gotham and Tangerine come to mind. I remember when the first Fiesta Bowl was played. Florida St. played Arizona St. I think the bowl was created to give Arizona State a game to play in. It wasn't long and Fiesta overtook the Cotton as a fan favorite and while the Cotton stayed on New Years Day it became a lower tier bowl and the Fiesta became one of the big 4. But when January 2nd came, the college football season was over. Not any more. Not sure If I like the current set up with bowl games going from December 15 to January 7 or 8, as long as Network TV continues to suck, I guess it's a good thing.