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Left to right, Mayor Bloomberg (Red Sox fan), Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe, Big East commissioner John Marinatto and Yankees' managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner (recipient of a Big East helmet and Big 12 football). (AP/Stephen Chernin)
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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"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.
Yeah the matchups are pretty lame, but Bowl games are pretty historical, so starting a brand new bowl game isn't going to attract top teams who have been playing in the Rose Bowl/Orange Bowl/Sugar Bowl for half a century.
I'm all for more college football in the NYC area...but like Devilforhire said, these matchups could really suck.
If Yankee Stadium was open during football season I would go every Sunday to watch the Giants on that screen.
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.
What if Notre Dame doesn't have 6 wins?
THen its the BMCC touch football intramural squad!
How about Fordham vs. the best college football squad in NYC every year, and you call it the Bronx Bowl?
Good job on that poster! Those Yankees graphics people are AWESOME at photoshop!
I don't understand, does the football field run into the dugouts?
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
cheerleaders will be positioned in monument park shaking their asses while they stand on the plaques of Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle
Shouldn't that happen at every Yanks game?
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?
Wagner (Staten Island) used to have a pretty good Div III program, not sure if that's still the case.
St. John's does. There must be others. NYU???
Alas this wasn't the 10 pin action I was hoping for.