So non-BCS teams Boise State and TCU fought so hard this season to be able to prove themselves by playing against a top-ranked BCS team on a national stage, both ending their regular seasons undefeated, and now they get to play… each other… just like last year in their consolation-prize bowl.
Gah!
It is the Fiesta Bowl, but these teams wanted to prove themselves to be something other than the best of the non-BCS teams. So here are some suggestions for a more apt name for their game than “Fiesta Bowl”:
ALTERNATE NAMES FOR THE FIESTA BOWL
* The Kiddie Table Bowl
* The David vs. David Bowl
* The Screw You, Non-BCS Teams Bowl
* The Glass Ceiling Bowl
* The Poinsettia Bowl
* The Prevent Embarrassment to BCS Teams Bowl
* The It Doesn’t Matter How Well You Play, We’ll Never Give You a Chance Bowl
* The BCS People Are Worse Than Hitler, Stalin, and the Guy Who Invented Clamshell Packaging Combined Bowl.
Somehow, I blame Obama for all of this.
* The We Can’t Let Tim Tebow End His Career By Losing To TCU Bowl
* The This Is Worse Than The Year Richard Nixon Gave The National Title To Texas Before The Bowls Had Been Played Bowl
* The Righteous Anger Is The Best Kind Of Anger Bowl
* The There’s No Way They’ll Sell This Game Out Bowl
The Red Haired Children Bowl.
* The You’re Welcome, Florida, Iowa, and Georgia Tech Bowl
* The Screw College Football Fans Bowl
* The Obamacare Bowl
The Rodney Dangerfield Bowl
Used to be good enough, still good enough: Siesta Bowl
The ‘Who Are These Teams?’ Bowl
No, seriously, who are they?
*runs and hides*
Hey…Hawkeyes = Our team is the brush, the ball is our paint and the field is our canvas…Let’s Play!
When did Boise become a state? Is that one of the 57?
It could be called the “When we get to be a real school, we’ll get to go to a real bowl”.
The “Watch how good six men ball can be bowl”
The “We miss the NCAA bowl”
The “WTF bowl”
The Siesta Bowl – zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Ok, I can do better…
The “Fiesta Bowl” because Boise State and TCU wanna party. Oh, look, balloons.
The Obama-Biden bowl?
Coulda-Been-A-Contender Bowl
Hey, isn’t this bowl method kinda like the primary election process? Media and local politics get to choose who plays when, and the best looking teams don’t even get to compete against each other. (i.e. how the heck did we end up with McCain?)
Also, I’m calling it now, at least one bowl game will have a half time show starring Justin Timberlake, Barack Obama, and Nancy Pelosi. It will feature a wardrobe malfunction and national plea for universal healthcare # 26. If the wardrobe malfunction has anything to do with Nancy, the healthcare plan had damn well better cover acid wash for my eyes.
Oooh! MarkcoMancuso must be another Razorback fan (i.e., giving the championship to Texas after they screwed the Hogs out of the title!). May we never forget.
As to the Fiesta — at our house it’s called the “How Pissed Off Can the Future Son-in-Law-Horned-Frog Get?” Bowl.
And, General? Just don’t even go there to a Pelosi wardrobe malfunction. Just make her wear a Naughty Nurse costume at halftime and give CPR to Obama — she wants so badly to be involved with healthcare, maybe that would satisfy her and she’d shut up.
Nope, Moogie, I’m a Penn State fan. Penn State had an undefeated season with Mike Reid, John Ebersole, Jack Ham, Franco Harris, Charlie Pittman, Neal Smith, and Dennis Onkotz, but Nixon thought he could grab votes in Arkansas and Texas, I suppose.
What a numbnuts.
“Worse than the Guy Who Invented Clamshell Packaging” ? Harsh.
* The This Is What You Get for Electing an Incompetant Lightwieght as President Bowl
Lets pretend like Obama supports the BCS so people will get pissed off at him. After all, if this had happened during Bush’s tenure, it would all somehow be his fault. Just like Afghanistan is now “Obama’s war” and this is “Obama’s recession”, I think it is clear that this is now “Obama’s Bowl”.
How about: The Fiesta Blow?
Sometimes simplicity is best. 8)
*the everyone gets a nobel peace prize bowl.
Hmmm….how about:
“The SEC-Big10-Big12 Teams are scared to play us so we’ll just have to play each other Bowl”
“How many times does a WAC/MWC team have to beat one of the ‘elite’ teams in a bowl game before the rest of the country will shut its collective pie-hole about how ‘weak’ they are Bowl”
Cuz let’s face it – the reason the BCS committee put them together was so that they wouldn’t have to listen to the truth after TCU beat Ga. Tech and BSU beat Iowa. When Oregon beats Iowa, just remember that it took Oregon 3/4 of the game before they got a first down against BSU.
But this whole argument just shows what’s wrong with the system. If they just let the darn teams play a playoff then we wouldn’t have to have these meaningless ‘my Dad could beat up your Dad’ discussions. No one (not even the most die-hard ‘Bama fans) thought that the Tide would put such a smack down on Florida but that’s why they play the game. Or they could just not play any games and let the sportswriters pick the champion on August 15th.
Sorry, meant to say when Oregon beat Ohio State.
What, nobody thought of the Toilet Bowl yet? Shame on you; get your minds out of the clouds and back in the gutter!
Bad as the Clamshell Packaging guy?
No way! NOBODY’s gonna take that monster’s place in Hell from him!
Too easy, too Wacky.
Technically, doesn’t a ‘Toilet Bowl’ occur when 2 win-less teams meet in the last game of the season?
Since these two teams are loss-less, they deserve Some kudos.
the toilet bowl?
how about the you don’t have a history of winning bowl
Anyone here in favor of replacing the BCS with the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit?
Haw about “The BCS’s Ban on Illegal Narcotics Obvously Doesn’t Aply to Our Executives” Bowl.
The guy who invented clamshell packageing was actually a woman, Ellen Tade Glassman, who holds the patent 6170663 issued January 9, 2001. It’s a feminist plot: “Honey, would you open this?”
Nap Time
The Fiesta Bowel.
For any of you who have ever been to Carnival…
How ’bout the “Separate but Equal” Bowl?
The Separate but Equal Bowl is professional, not college. That’s run by a non-NFL professional league that Rush Limbaugh is allowed to invest in.
I’ve got 2 points of view on this bowl game. 1) I’m sure those involved at TCU and Boise State are really excited to be going to a BCS bowl game – it’s a big deal and it should be exciting – they are both good teams. 2) However… these two teams could have been playing in much more high-profile, exciting games. A TCU-Florida matchup would have been awesome to see, as would a Boise State-Cincinnati.
But for now, they are Fiesta Bowl bound and should be proud of it. Right? http://www.newsy.com/videos/questioning_the_bcs
Wait. They hold bowl games without a team from the Southeast involved? And people go to those games? Regular season, sure. But a bowl game? Where you have to pay to travel? And no SEC team involved? That’s just plain silly.
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