The Cotton Bowl today made official their attempt to reinvent their bowl game. As has been rumored for the last month, the Cotton Bowl board of directors voted to move their game to the new Cowboys stadium in Arlington, effective in 2010.
The Cotton Bowl will now attempt to crowd into the BCS bowl rotation. It is one of the traditional New Year's Day bowls, but suffered in recent years from a decaying and decrepit stadium. The game was in danger of being passed up by other cities in the pecking order of Big XII and SEC teams.
The new Cowboys stadium would be a great place for a BCS bowl game, and a national championship game. It would also benefit the Big XII, as the Big XII often finds itself playing in a hostile environment for national championship games (see Orange Bowl-OU vs. Florida State, Sugar Bowl-OU vs. LSU, and Rose Bowl-Texas vs. USC).
I am excited that the Cotton Bowl has made this move. I hope that OU and Texas follow suit and move the Red River Rivalry to Jerry's Palace on Johnson Creek.
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The Cotton Bowl is leaving the Cotton Bowl. Does that Fair Park Cotton Bowl have another name? I just thought it was the Cotton Bowl, but it seems stupid to call it that now.
This story makes me chuckle, btw. Dallas was idiotic to let the Cowboys go to Arlingdon.
Correction:
Jerry's Palace on Johnson Creek
should read
Jerry's Eminent Domain Palace on Johnson Creek.
The name of the stadium is still the Cotton Bowl, unless the Fair board or the city of Dallas sells the name to a sponsor. When this is all said and done, it may only host the Grambling-Prairie View game.
There is precedent for this. The Orange Bowl is no longer played at the Orange Bowl stadium in Miami, but the stadium kept the name. The Canes play at the OB, but the bowl game is played at Dolphin Stadium in north Dade County.
Dallas was idiotic to let the Cowboys go to Irving in 1971. They were super-idiotic to not get them back. But, Laura Miller made a political career out of opposing the Ross Perot Jr. arena deal, so she wasn't going to fall all over a Jerry Jones stadium deal. Plus, now that the city is involved in a racial civil cold war between black, brown, and white, nothing is going to get done there. That city is going down the tubes right before our eyes.
Jerry's Eminent Domain Palace on Johnson Creek. That's a good one!
I don't know one person who supports Laura Miller. She stunk as a morning host on the Ticket, too!
I remember when Laura Miller was a muckraker for the Dallas Observer. It's pretty sad when you can go from being an "investigative reporter" for an alternative weekly to city council to becoming mayor of a major American city. What a country.
I don't think it's sad - it's what makes America great (or part of what makes Dallas suck). They chose her, so now they are paying the consequences! This is also the same city that keeps electing John Wiley Price.
At least Laura's not running for re-election. Two terms is enough damage.
John Wiley Price is only elected by one county commissioner precinct, located south of the Trinity River. Problem is, he makes the whole city look bad. But, after the Dems swept all Dallas County offices last fall, he could run for another office there on the D side of the ticket, and get elected to something bigger than county commissioner. At least he didn't try to run for mayor.
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