Yankee Stadium Adds "Bowling" In 2010!

Banking on the allure of New York City during the Holidays and forgetting the history of the Gotham Bowl, the Yankees announced a new bowl game this morning to be played at Yankee Stadium in 2010. The game, which will be named after a yet to be determined sponsor, will take place between Christmas and New Year’s Day, assuming the NCAA approves the game next April. The Big East and Big XII conferences will each send a team with the Big East sending it’s fourth-place squad and the Big XII sending it seventh-place squad. Under college football rules, teams must have six wins to be eligible to play in a bowl. If one of the conferences does not have a qualifying team, Notre Dame has agreed to play in the bowl, provided they are not eligible for a BCS game.

The Yankees have already announced a slate of football games to be played at the Stadium starting next year and this game is expected to draw “40,000 visitors” to New York City, according to Mayor Bloomberg. One thing that is unclear at this date is what will happen to the potential Winter Classic game in New York. The NHL was reportedly looking to January 1, 2011 as a date to have a hockey game at Yankee Stadium, but it seems unlikely that the Stadium could host both events in the same week. Update: What you've all been waiting for — photos from the press conference including a lovely poster job.

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By Peter Trinkle in News on September 30, 2009 3:11 PM

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Neil Epstein

Alas this wasn't the 10 pin action I was hoping for.

EastRiver

Fordham vs. the best college football squad in NYC

Isn't that Columbia - by default? Are there any other NCAA schools in New York that have a football team?

JenChungsBaby

St. John's does. There must be others. NYU???

longacre

Wagner (Staten Island) used to have a pretty good Div III program, not sure if that's still the case.

Guest

cheerleaders will be positioned in monument park shaking their asses while they stand on the plaques of Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle

NannyState

Shouldn't that happen at every Yanks game?

longacre

Yawn. The only people who care about college football in New York are bookies, degenerate gamblers and people who went to schools with good football teams. The NHL Winter Classic would be much more exciting, I hope they make that happen.

Cautious Pessimist

There's the snap. The QB fades back. It's a long pass...! Deep into the endzone...! Annnndddddd... TOUCHDOWN GUY SITTING IN SECTION 104, ROW 5, SEAT 12!

Jen Chung

I don't understand, does the football field run into the dugouts?

Spirit of 76

I'm not into spectator sports, but aren't the poor ticketholders pretty far from the sidelines? I've heard of nosebleed sections, but the people in the northwest and southeast corners would need 30x spotting scopes to see anything.

TooTallJeff

Not to mention the other end zone is against the monuments. I'd hate to see a wide receiver run head first into the Ruth bust.

NannyState

I was wondering the same thing. Did they design elements of the stadium to be removed so football could be accomodated, or is the graphic a bit off? The whole thing is like New York Polo Grounds 2009.

nomnomnom

Good job on that poster! Those Yankees graphics people are AWESOME at photoshop!

Guest

What if Notre Dame doesn't have 6 wins?

Rfive

THen its the BMCC touch football intramural squad!

JenChungsBaby

How about Fordham vs. the best college football squad in NYC every year, and you call it the Bronx Bowl?

JenChungsBaby

If Yankee Stadium was open during football season I would go every Sunday to watch the Giants on that screen.

Alex

I was at Sunday's game and that's exactly how I felt. Other than the really fucking obnoxious Jets fan a few rows back constantly booing whenever the Giants did something good, the Stadium response was great. I was actually hoping for a 3 hour rain delay so I could watch the Giants game and then some baseball.

nomnomnom

I'm all for more college football in the NYC area...but like Devilforhire said, these matchups could really suck.

Guest

"The Big East and Big XII conferences will each send a team with the Big East sending it’s fourth-place squad and the Big XII sending it seventh-place squad."

...sounds like a real clash of the titans.