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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">SPORT AND SOCIETY FOR ARETE </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">DECEMBER 16, 2022 </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">When you come across the word “bowl,” what comes to mind? </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">Do you envision a colorful ceramic vessel possibly steaming with a delicious soup? One of those great exotic concoctions of meat, vegies, and spices? One of those steamy delights
for a cold day? Or perhaps it is chicken soup to cure whatever seems to be ailing your soul. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">On the other hand, maybe you think back to your childhood when a “bowl” was an essential utensil for a haircut. If that is what comes to mind clearly you are of an advanced
age. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">Or if you are on top of the current sports scene, especially college football, then what will come to mind is the 42 (or is it 43) Bowl Games that will clutter your television
screens from now until mid-January. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">Is this a tribute to the popularity of college football, the greed of the colleges, the ego of coaches, ESPN’s desperate need for programming, or the general boredom of American
life? All of the above. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">What has always fascinated me about the bowls is not only the growth in numbers, but also the growth in sponsorship. Does anyone remember the simplicity of The Rose Bowl, The
Orange Bowl, or other similar singular names for these games? Or do you perhaps remember when all the Bowl games were played on New Year’s Day? Only the Rose Bowl has retained its non-sponsorship name. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">The Orange Bowl is now the Capital One Orange Bowl played on December 30 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. Also on the 30<sup class="x_x_ContentPasted0">th</sup>
are the Dukes Mayo Bowl in Charlotte, North Carolina; the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas; the Taxslayer Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida; and the Barstool Sports Arizona Bowl in Tucson. This cluster of names involving Tony the Tiger and Mayo
on a Barstool is mind bending and make Taxslayer seem like a normal term. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">On December 31 the Sugar Bowl is an insured success with Allstate, while the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl suggests a strange food combination. This also means that the game will
not be on a Sunday. On the 31<sup class="x_x_ContentPasted0">st</sup> is the Transperfect Music City Bowl, which sounds more like a verb form than a football game, and the VBRO Fiesta Bowl, which apparently will rent you a home while you are in Glendale, Arizona
for the not so big game. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">The New Year’s Bowl Games will be on January 2 and this is not connected in any way to Chick-fil-A. The Cheez-It Citrus Bowl in Orlando seems to feature flavored cheez crackers.
Down I-4 to Tampa is the Reliaquest Bowl, while in Dallas it will be another Goodyear for the Cotton Bowl. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">I will not go through all 42 or 43 games but there are a few more great names to consider. The Taxact Texas Bowl in Houston on December 28 needs to merge with the Taxslayer
Bowl. On the 29<sup class="x_x_ContentPasted0">th</sup> is the Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl in Yankee Stadium where the first 10,000 fans will be inducted into the Bad Boy Mowers of America. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">On December 26, the redundantly named Quick Lane Bowl will take place in Detroit. I don’t know about you, but I really don’t like to be rushed while at the lanes. On December
22, the lobbyists meet their clients in the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl. In the aftermath of the recent hurricanes, Boca Raton, Florida is the site of the Roofclaim.Com Boca Raton Bowl. Floridians will find little comfort in this reminder of recent troubles. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">All the action begins tonight with the Hometown Lenders Bahamas Bowl, which is actually in the Bahamas, and the Duluth Trading Cure Bowl. Anyone who has been in Duluth in any
month other than August will feel the chill from this one in Orlando. Tomorrow seven more games will clutter the television channels with such games as the Frisco Bowl, that is not in San Francisco; the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl Presented by Stifel in Inglewood,
not Los Angeles; and the Wasabi Bowl in the heart of Sushi Country<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="">
</span>at Fenway Park in Boston. In an unexplained moment of rationality, The New Mexico Bowl will be held in New Mexico.
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">Finally, this bit of information on the general state of The Bowls. Most of The Bowls do not offer payouts large enough for participants to make any money. They are in fact
a consistent contributor to the deficits run by football programs across America. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">In a recent development the arrival of the transfer portal in college sports combined with the NIL money now on the table, has resulted in many players on Bowl-bound teams
entering the transfer portal before the Bowling season. The result is that many teams will be short-handed for their Bowl Games. The Florida Gators, for example, will be without 21 players for their game in the SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl this Saturday.
If this trend continues it could eventually result in fewer and fewer Bowl Games. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">Of course, I am only dreaming. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">On Sport and Society this is Dick Crepeau reminding you that you don’t have to be a good sport to be a bad loser. </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"">Copyright 2022 by Richard C. Crepeau </span></p>
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