J-Mac’s Corner

Jessica MacIntosh - Editor-in-Chief

Jessica MacIntosh – Editor-in-Chief

During the holiday break, I was exposed to the numerous college bowl games that exist today. There are so many bowl games present you are unable to count them all on one hand.

This made me start thinking about the countless bowl game names you can come up with.

It seems like every year a new name for a bowl game makes the list.

For instance, there was one called the New Orleans Bowl. OK, that is a fine name for a game, but if you name a bowl after a city like New Orleans, then you have to have one for every other big city in the United States. It is only fair for the other cities if they have the honor of having a bowl game named after them.

Another example comes with the two flower bowls: the famous Rose Bowl and the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl (points go out for the longest bowl game name).

The same should go for these types of bowl names like the cities. You could have one called The Daisy Bowl to one called The Tulip Bowl. Take your pick on the flower and turn it into a bowl game name.

Everyone knows about the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl and the FedEx Orange Bowl. Why can’t there be one universal bowl name called The Fruit Bowl? On the other hand, even better, there could be a bowl game for every known fruit in existence today. Nevertheless, one question haunts me.

Why in the world is a sponsor like Chick-Fil-A paired up with a fruit? I am just curious. Also, since FedEx is a sponsor for one of the bowl games, why can’t UPS have one? I think the bowl could be called the UPS Brown Bowl.

Lastly, if two teams play in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, I think there should be a bowl game called the Gordita Bowl with the sponsor being Taco Bell.

There are 25 different bowl games, and I have heard rumors there will be another added for the next year’s series. However, I have come up with a number of bowl games sponsors could come up with in the coming years.

No. 1: the Crayola Crayon Box Bowl.

No. 2: I Am So Sick of the Number of College Bowl Games Bowl.

No. 3: General Mills Cereal Bowl.

No. 4: Your Name Here Bowl.

No. 5: MTV Wardrobe Malfunction Bowl.

No. 6: Playboy _______ Bowl. You are just going to have to fill in the blank yourself.

Finally, No. 7: the Scrubbing Bubbles Toilet Bowl.

It will be interesting to see what bowl game sponsors decide on for the next year, but maybe it will be one of these (in my wildest dreams).