If you are one of those college football fans who embrace the-more-the-merrier tack when it comes to bowl games, this post is right up your alley. If you’re one of those fans who feel like the postseason gluttony does nothing but reward mediocrity, you might feel the need to take ESPN right into an alley and kick them repeatedly in the baby maker.
Announced back in September, the bowl game at the new Yankee Stadium now has a title sponsor, a TV agreement and a concrete date for the inaugural contest.
According to multiple reports, The New Era Pinstripe Bowl will be played at the home of the New York Yankees on Dec. 30, 2010. The New Era Cap Co. agreed to sponsor the bowl, which was initially called the Yankee Bowl, for four years and will pit the No. 3 Big East team against the No. 6 team from the Big 12.
ESPN has reached an agreement with Yankee officials to televise the game for the next six seasons.
Just how well received a bowl played in the dead of winter in an open-air stadium in a city not exactly enamored with the college game remains to be seen, but I’m all for a little slop mixed in with my warm-weather holiday football fare.
This Pinstripe Bowl will be the second college game held in old/new Yankee Stadium since Dec. of 1962 — Nebraska 36, Miami 34 for those keeping score at home; Notre Dame-Army will christen the stadium collegiately on Nov. 20.
YAWN
These bowl games at baseball only stadiums are rediculous. The seats are terrible to watch football and in the Emerald Bowl’s case both teams use the same sidelines.
What a treat for the teams playing in them. You get to go to NY and freeze your a$$ off.
“does nothing but reward mediocrity”.
Kids that play for free and bring in millions for their school deserve some kind of reward.
ESPN has trouble getting attendance numbers at the St Pete Bowl played in a warm environment in a domed stadium.
What the hell are they thinking adding this stupid “concrete and ice” bowl?
Jim Leavitt will need to get a new job someplace that accepts mediocre football to fill out the opponents in this yawner that no one will attend.