How are we supposed to get excited over bowl games?

So tonight Utah and Navy square off in the SAN DIEGO COUNTY CREDIT UNION POINSETTIA BOWL.





Are all bowls heading for long corporate names like this? How rediculous is it going to get? Are we ever going to see the Maxi-Tampax With Wings Bowl?

How are we supposed to get excited over bowl games?
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Very good question!





But, Bowl season always starts out with the 'boring' games 1st leading up to the Championship.
Reply:I'm excited, football almost every day of the week for the next 3 weeks. sweet!!!!





go Navy, run all over them Utes.
Reply:The national championship is cool. All other bowls are rather :(





I'm not excited, other than it's football.
Reply:It's football !!!


beats survivor american idol dancing with house
Reply:No, only a few have long names. The Poinsettia Bowl has been that name for a long time. Remember the only reason for bowl games is the large amounts of $$$$$. O well. College football is awesome anyway!
Reply:if they do ill watch it***
Reply:im not excited for that game but i am excited for LSU v.s. Ohio





LSU IS GONNA WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply:i really miss the blue-gray all star classic. i wish they'd bring it back. i even heard that 1 or 2 of this year's bowl games were gonna be on the NFL network. how stupid is that?
Reply:so so true. the reason im excited is bcuz this is baseically the first football ive seen in a couple of months. well that is if u dont count the 1-AA, Div. II, and Div III playoffs which well....
Reply:I guess we will just have to leave that up to their students and alumni fans.
Reply:To answer your last question: YES! if Tampax felt as though they could get exposure (no pun intended) by sponsoring a game. And "NO" I wouldn't agree to call it that. I still call the Bowls by their orginal name, unless the sponsor has taken the name over completely. The Orange Bowl is the Orange Bowl, not the FedEx Orange Bowl.





But to answer your first question, ESPN and columnist will tell you 'no', you shouldn't be excited about all the bowl games. I do know the guys at NAVY are thrilled to be playing in a bowl game. And the Midshipmen that are able to attend the game are not like, 'this is stupid'. They are in fact saying, 'go NAVY!!'. Do these games mean something on a National scale, NO!! But do they mean something to the programs, 'YES' they really do.





Are their too many bowls, probably, but someone is making money off these games or they wouldn't be there.
Reply:As far as the long names go, I agree with you. However, I am excited about pretty much every bowl game this year...even Bowling Green v. Tulsa. It's actually pretty easy to get excited over all the bowl games. Next year, you should join a bowl pool...or start one if you can't find one to join. If you have a chance to win a lot of money depending on what team you pick, it's easy to get excited, because you have a team to pull hard for, which is where all the excitement of any game comes from anyway. Go Utes!
Reply:I agree but a lot of the games are fun to watch!
Reply:It should be renamed the "People will watch because it is the only game on bowl"





Seriously though, I have often wondered if these big corporations have figured out if it is worth spending the money to have their name on something. I mean, the San Diego County Credit Union...come on. WIll people be lining up tomorrow to swith their bank? And outside of San Diego, who cares?





The more perplexing ones are the stadium names. Companies sign multi year, multi million dollar agreements just to have their name in the title of the stadium.





It must work, otherwise they would stop doing it..





I am perplexed as to why sports related companies don't do it. Why do we not have a Nike bowl, or Reebok bowl. Or Addidas arena.....or do we?
Reply:Learn the names that they would have without the corporate sponsor-for example the Capital One Bowl is the Citrus Bowl and the first bowl is the Poinsttia Bowl
Reply:bunch of GEDs... how is it that mcdonald's lets the lot of you surf while flipping our big macs?





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don't like the bowl game, don't watch. why whine about it at all?
Reply:LMAO. True