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To: Perdogg
What happened to the old days when bowl games were named after obscure citrus fruits?
4 posted on 12/03/2012 10:56:16 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Big Bird is a brood parasite: laid in our nest 43 years ago and we are still feeding him.)
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To: KarlInOhio
What happened to the old days when bowl games were named after obscure citrus fruits?

lol

Obscure citrus fruits got out-bid by obscure businesses.

6 posted on 12/03/2012 10:59:53 AM PST by builder (I don't want a piece of someone else's pie)
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To: KarlInOhio
What happened to the old days when bowl games were named after obscure citrus fruits?

Massive GLAAD protests at the Charles Nelson Reilly Bowl brought a permanent end to those days.


14 posted on 12/03/2012 11:08:35 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: KarlInOhio

>What happened to the old days when bowl games were named after obscure citrus fruits?<

Corporate sponsors had to pick up the naming rights or they all would have been named ‘High Fructose Corn Syrup’ bowls.


69 posted on 12/03/2012 12:31:38 PM PST by highnoon (Where do I sign up for all the free stuff??)
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To: KarlInOhio

The Kumquat Bowl? ;-)


94 posted on 12/04/2012 7:49:39 AM PST by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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