New Years Day........

I grew up with New Years Day being a day of football, bowl games, and needing more than one TV if you wanted to see more than one game and a big party at someones home. The food spread was fantastic and for the adults the after New Years Eve hangover drinks flowed.........hair of the dog right! Boy have things and times changed and right now sitting in our suite at the Luxor in Las Vegas I'm watching the Capital One bowl...............who? Back in the day, we had the Sugar Bowl, the Cotton Bowl, the Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl and today we have 34 bowls games stretching from mid December until January 9th and the mystique around the bowl games is gone as far as I'm concerned.

Did you see what I said, Cotton Bowl (2 words) Rose Bowl (2 words) etc. and now some of the bowls of today you'd need one or more sheets of paper to write down the name or title of these bowls. Commercialism has taken over the bowls and their names. We got things like the Pinstripe Bowl what the hell is that all about, the Music City bowl....is that Detroit? Outback, Sun, Capital One, Alamo yes I guess is would be hard to come up with a name when your trying to come up with 34 bowl games and names. I'm bored with it and maybe it's my age but can anyone really keep up with all these bowls? I mentioned being in Las Vegas and they like it here that's for sure, betting on football is BIG, very BIG and parlay sheets are flowing all over town.

One thing in it's favor I guess is the revenue generated for the schools by all these bowls, yes revenue to build bigger and better stadiums and training facilities and salaries for the coaches and staff and bigger salaries than you can even imagine! Too bad it for the most part doesn't go to or for education, is college still a place for higher education or just a place to fill the needs and members of pro sports, a minor league if you will.

No it's not special for me anymore, New Years Day is just not the same but I guess if this is all you know and what you grew up with (3 weeks of bowls rather than a couple of days) your in hog heaven..............does anyone watch the parades anymore? Hangover or not we'd watch the parades very, very early and football into the evening it was a big day and day is singular!