Why Not a Bowl in Little Rock?

[PonderinHog]

The "We Turned Down FedEx and they Went to Memphis" Horrible Decisions Bowl
The Peabody Hotel/Ducks Unlimited Duck Bowl
The Riceland Rice Bowl
The Remington Home Security / Concealed Carry Bowl
The Delta Airlines No Direct Flights In or Out Bowl
The Eat at Doe's Because Bubba Used To Eat at Doe's Bowl
The Wally Hall Old and Out of Touch Bowl
The Little Rock 9 / Integration of Central High is the Only that Ever Happened Here Bowl
The Hawaiin Tropic Tan Ned Perme Bowl
The every-few-years a gay weatherman ends up in a drug/sex/homicide scandal bowl

Congratulations, I think you've offended all of our potential bowl sponsors!

[popcornhog]

There are bowls in Albuquerque, Boise, Birmingham, Mobile, El Paso, and Shreveport.  Little Rock's hosted a couple of very minor "bowl" games back in the 40s and 50s, but if these cities can do it, why not Little Rock?


Pros:
*It's in the South, where football is king
*It's centrally located in the country
*People in Arkansas support athletics
*The weather's not usually too bad here the week after Christmas
*We have some big corporations who are not already bowl sponsors
*War Memorial has had some siginificant upgrades

I think Little Rock could support one.

Move all bowl games to Fayetteville.

[ADAM_713]

The "We Turned Down FedEx and they Went to Memphis" Horrible Decisions Bowl
The Peabody Hotel/Ducks Unlimited Duck Bowl
The Riceland Rice Bowl
The Remington Home Security / Concealed Carry Bowl
The Delta Airlines No Direct Flights In or Out Bowl
The Eat at Doe's Because Bubba Used To Eat at Doe's Bowl
The Wally Hall Old and Out of Touch Bowl
The Little Rock 9 / Integration of Central High is the Only that Ever Happened Here Bowl
The Hawaiin Tropic Tan Ned Perme Bowl
The every-few-years a gay weatherman ends up in a drug/sex/homicide scandal bowl

Haha.  Good old Ned. How does he not have skin cancer yet?

[jamie72921]

Outside of the people who live there, most people don't think much of Little Rock. It's got all the feel of a larger city with crime, bums, and traffic minus much to do.

Back to the op, I am with you, why not try it and see what happens?

[ADAM_713]

The We Used to Have a Bunch of Xmas Lights Bowl
The Horniest Former Governor Bowl
The Sudafed We Cook Good Meth Bowl
The Our Only Club Is A Gay Bar Bowl

[Pig Worshipper]

Root 66 can tell you about the real bowl game that was played in the Rock back in the day. It had something to do with Reynolds Aluminum and the trophy was made out of aluminum foil. Maybe we could reprise that one.

[popcornhog]

Outside of the people who live there, most people don't think much of Little Rock. It's got all the feel of a larger city with crime, bums, and traffic minus much to do.

Back to the op, I am with you, why not try it and see what happens?

I do live in Little Rock, but I've only been here for four years.  I quickly decided that I would be very happy here for the foreseeable future or possibly forever.

There are some issues with crime, but it's pretty isolated to SW LR and around Park Plaza. If you're not spending your nights cruising Asher Avenue you're going to be in pretty good shape. I'm not saying that the crime and poverty issues aren't important to solve, but I think that many people around the state have a strangely negative picture of Little Rock.

For a small city LR has excellent dining options. Little Rock features one of the academically strongest public high schools in the country, several very good private high schools, a Presidential library, a decent local music scene, Razorback football, several colleges, universities, and community colleges.

At the same time it is very much a small town. Rush hour traffic is only an issue for about 45 minutes in the morning and 45 minutes in the evening, and even when it is an issue it's pretty mild compared to major cities.

Little Rock is within short driving distance of quality hunting and fishing.

In short, Little Rock offers many great features of a small town and many of the amenities of a city.  It's great for people who want a small town feel with access to decent dining, shopping, jobs, schools, etc.  It can suck for people who are either used to a legitimate big city or a very small town.

Just my opinion though.  Defense of Little Rock over.

[tiber]

Boise is a large tourist draw.

Google says -

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Old Idaho Penitentiary State Historic Site

history.idaho.gov
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Boise Depot

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Idaho Botanical Garden

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Boise Airport

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Boise Art Museum

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I'm booking my tickets now!

[99toLife]

Root 66 can tell you about the real bowl game that was played in the Rock back in the day. It had something to do with Reynolds Aluminum and the trophy was made out of aluminum foil. Maybe we could reprise that one.

Read before you post, It's been brought up...

Recap: The Aluminum Bowl

Year: 1956
5,000 people showed up
3- Total Passes
Nobody Scored a Point ( 0-0 )

[NaturalStateReb]

Read before you post, It's been brought up...

Recap: The Aluminum Bowl

Year: 1956
5,000 people showed up
3- Total Passes
Nobody Scored a Point ( 0-0 )

It was also NAIA. 

Some name possibilities:

The Diamond Bowl
The Rice Bowl
The Veterans Bowl (b/c of WMS)

[99toLife]

It was also NAIA.

You are Correct...

[jamie72921]

I do live in Little Rock, but I've only been here for four years.  I quickly decided that I would be very happy here for the foreseeable future or possibly forever.

There are some issues with crime, but it's pretty isolated to SW LR and around Park Plaza. If you're not spending your nights cruising Asher Avenue you're going to be in pretty good shape. I'm not saying that the crime and poverty issues aren't important to solve, but I think that many people around the state have a strangely negative picture of Little Rock.

For a small city LR has excellent dining options. Little Rock features one of the academically strongest public high schools in the country, several very good private high schools, a Presidential library, a decent local music scene, Razorback football, several colleges, universities, and community colleges.

At the same time it is very much a small town. Rush hour traffic is only an issue for about 45 minutes in the morning and 45 minutes in the evening, and even when it is an issue it's pretty mild compared to major cities.

Little Rock is within short driving distance of quality hunting and fishing.

In short, Little Rock offers many great features of a small town and many of the amenities of a city.  It's great for people who want a small town feel with access to decent dining, shopping, jobs, schools, etc.  It can suck for people who are either used to a legitimate big city or a very small town.

Just my opinion though.  Defense of Little Rock over.

I think you are spot on about Little Rock. Good post.

It's just the people who are born and raised there act like it's a real Metropolitan area, and my response to them after I throw up a little in my mouth would be,  "Very cosmopolitan" - Doc Holliday style, Tombstone.

[popcornhog]

I think you are spot on about Little Rock. Good post.

It's just the people who are born and raised there act like it's a real Metropolitan area, and my response to them after I throw up a little in my mouth would be,  "Very cosmopolitan" - Doc Holliday style, Tombstone.

Yeah, to call LR a "city" is a stretch.

[humphrey]

The Heifer.Org Send-a-Tribesman a Goat Bowl

This is the best and most useful bowl game of all!

Seriously, what tribesman couldn't use another goat?!

[sharks89]

POST OF THE YEAR!  (of course, it's only January 5).

I moved from Sherwood to Memphis in 2005, and gosh I miss the annual LR weatherman scandal.  You could count on it just like rain at Riverfest.

Agreed.

Other Possibilities:

WalMart Discount Bowl
The War Memorial Ancient Facility Bowl
"See, we do have shoes" Bowl
"At least we're not Mississippi" Bowl
"The MSM has it in for us" Bowl
The Hillbilly bowl-haircut Bowl
The Fannie Mae Fleece Bowl

With a Hot Spring tie-in it could be the   Gangster Bowl
and, with a East LR tie in, it could be the   Gangsta Bowl.

[cw2]

Diamond Bowl

Arkansas is the only state in the US with naturally occuring diamonds.
We have businesses that could sponsor it, i.e. the usuals(Wal-Mart, Tyson, etc.); but maybe you could talk De Beers, Jared's, and other diamond marketers into sponsorship.

[ADAM_713]

I do live in Little Rock, but I've only been here for four years.  I quickly decided that I would be very happy here for the foreseeable future or possibly forever.

There are some issues with crime, but it's pretty isolated to SW LR and around Park Plaza. If you're not spending your nights cruising Asher Avenue you're going to be in pretty good shape. I'm not saying that the crime and poverty issues aren't important to solve, but I think that many people around the state have a strangely negative picture of Little Rock.

For a small city LR has excellent dining options. Little Rock features one of the academically strongest public high schools in the country, several very good private high schools, a Presidential library, a decent local music scene, Razorback football, several colleges, universities, and community colleges.

At the same time it is very much a small town. Rush hour traffic is only an issue for about 45 minutes in the morning and 45 minutes in the evening, and even when it is an issue it's pretty mild compared to major cities.

Little Rock is within short driving distance of quality hunting and fishing.

In short, Little Rock offers many great features of a small town and many of the amenities of a city.  It's great for people who want a small town feel with access to decent dining, shopping, jobs, schools, etc.  It can suck for people who are either used to a legitimate big city or a very small town.

Just my opinion though.  Defense of Little Rock over.

Although the issues with crime are not so bad now, it used to not the be that way. When I was growing up in the 90's LR was a bad place to be at night, not as bad as the bluff, but bad.  It's has changed alot for the better, but its history is why people bring it up.

[budcampbellfan]

We already have the Cotton Boll in Monticello.  We can't support another one anywhere in the state.  Too much to expect.

WMS would have to be expanded to 65,000 in class A shape.  Wal-Mart Diamond Bowl (have a state flag symbol per Twin City Bank and its somehow associated banks with the same symbol.)   The key is $payout.  Should be about $5 mil per team to get the quality teams we want.  I'm for it.

[NaturalStateReb]

The Toad Suck Bowl
The Nature Bowl (Ric Flair MC's)
The Dogtown Classic
The Obesity Bowl
The Social Secuirty Disability Bowl
The Ron Paul Bowl (played with no officials to regulate)
The Bill Clinton Bowl, Sponsored by Shout
The Tramp Stamp Bowl
The Funions Bowl
The "My Grandma's 36 Years Old Bowl"
The Tinfoil Hat Bowl

[SEdrhawg]

The Dillards Over-Priced Yuppie Crap Bowl
The Stephens, Inc. Investments of Questionable Legality Bowl
The Friday Firm F*&$ You Bowl
The Jerry Jones Birthplace Bowl
The Repeatedly Robbed Dodge's Chicken Store Bowl
The Alltel, woops I mean Verizon Bowl
The North Little Rock Dogtown Inferiority Complex Bowl
The We Really Miss Bill Clinton / Big Glass Trailer House Bowl
The Heifer.Org Send-a-Tribesman a Goat Bowl
The Overrated BBQ Bowl
The Poor Quality Seafood Bowl
The Ludicrous Assertion Birthplace of Cheese Dip Bowl
The Holy Crap We've got to move to West Little Rock Bowl
The Don't Leave Anything in Your Yard Unattended for 10 Minutes Bowl

The possibilities are endless...

[lstewart]

War Memorial and Little Rock could offer as much as some of the smaller bowls that attract little interest. The issue is not so much that Little Rock could not sponsor a small bowl, but the fact that so many are already being played, and the quality of teams available to fill the spots is so low. Everyone sees all the 6-6 teams playing bowl games, so you would be talking about getting two of the absolute bottom teams for a new low level bowl. It could probably do okay if you could get ASU, and I assume UCA is only elgibile for the playoffs?

If about 10 small bowls are cancelled, then it is something that might work. But why? The dollars to the economy would be small.... not many fans would be coming in. Little Rock could have something like this, but the hassle and start-up would probably not be worth the effort for the low level game you would have. We are probably talking a game with teams like Louisiana Tech vs Middle Tennessee.

[Torqued pork]

6-6 teams are going to bowls. There's more bowls than good teams now.

[ADAM_713]

NWA Bowl:

Ralph Lauren Presents The I Only Wear Polo Bowl with side sponsor Sperry.

[razorback3072]

Although the issues with crime are not so bad now, it used to not the be that way. When I was growing up in the 90's LR was a bad place to be at night, not as bad as the bluff, but bad.  It's has changed alot for the better, but its history is why people bring it up.

#7  http://www.businessinsider.com/most-dangerous-cities-2011-5#7-little-rock-ark-19

[ADAM_713]

#7  http://www.businessinsider.com/most-dangerous-cities-2011-5#7-little-rock-ark-19

Yea but it used to be #2 or #3 every year. 

[The real Hogules]

This is where the conversation takes a turn from the semi-rational to the completely biased.

Besides... there's already a Chicken Bowl.  Barner played in it.

Maybe we could get American Standard to be the sponsor and call it the Toilet Bowl?

[Catfish John]

6-6 teams are going to bowls. There's more bowls than good teams now.

That's it!

The 6-6 Bowl
The .500 Bowl
The Awarding Your School for Being Painfully Average Bowl
The You're as Good as you are Bad Bowl
The C Average Bowl
The 5 Inch Member Bowl
The Joe Boxer Average Joe Bowl

[Potosihog]

This is the funniest post I have read in a long time.  I know the op was serious but this is classic.  Some of you guys are very imaginative.

[99toLife]

This is the funniest post I have read in a long time.  I know the op was serious but this is classic.  Some of you guys are very imaginative.

Catfish is on a Roll... I like all his Potential Bowl Names!

[Jackrabbit Hog]

The 5 Inch Member Bowl

Sponsored by Viagra!

[99toLife]

Sponsored by Viagra!

and If the game lasts longer than 4 Hours ....call a sports doctor!

[NaturalStateReb]

and If the game lasts longer than 4 Hours ....call a sports doctor!

I always thought it funny on the commercials when one of the side effects was "loss of vision."  Isn't this what it's supposed to do?

[cosmodrum]

The reason it was " Looked into" and failed is pretty obvious.... can you imagine trying to sell ads and get sponsers for a Bowl Game in Arkansas....Man the jokes would be rampant... we could get Tyson and call in the Chicken Bowl...All those other cities are ten times better locations than Little Rock...

El fricking Paso is better than LR?

Okay.

[99toLife]

El fricking Paso is better than LR?

Okay.

Yes...sad but true...

[hoghart]

This is the funniest thread I have seen in years.

Keep it going...more potential bowl names please

[TexHog188]

The "What cha gonna do when they come for you" Bowl

[CapitalCityHawg]

Yea but it used to be #2 or #3 every year.

Little Rock is much safer than it used to be. There were 76 murders in 1993 versus 25 in 2010. That is with the city growing from 175k to 200k. Obviously there is still room for improvement, but progress has been made.

[Jackrabbit Hog]

This is the funniest thread I have seen in years.

Keep it going...more potential bowl names please

The Interstate Potholes Bowl.
The Orange Barrels Bowl.
The Bridge Out at White River Bowl.

[ADAM_713]

Another NWA bowl:

I Owe Everything I Have To Wal-Mart Bowl

My self included.

[OneTuskOverTheLine™]

Yeah, to call LR a "city" is a stretch.

The City itself has close to 200k. I don't know your' definition of a city, but Webster's say's Little Rock is one...

[ADAM_713]

The Los Pollos Bowl if played in Springdale.

[hoghart]

The Interstate Potholes Bowl.
The Orange Barrels Bowl.
The Bridge Out at White River Bowl.

Speaking of bridges, maybe we can get the Arkansas Highway Dept. to sponsor it, and call it the
Let's piss away $52 million on a new Bridge Bowl

[ADAM_713]

The Jermaine Taylor Is The Most Famous Person I Have Ever Met Bowl

[FaulknerHogfan]

nice, a bowl game with 20,000 people

[ADAM_713]

Speaking of bridges, maybe we can get the Arkansas Highway Dept. to sponsor it, and call it the
Let's piss away $52 million on a new Bridge Bowl

I like the Arkansas Highway Dept We Built Us a Tunnel So We Could Have A Tunnel Bowl.

[NaturalStateReb]

The Powerball Ticket and 2 Packs of Pall Malls Bowl
The Teen Mom Bowl
The Toddlers and Tiaras Bowl
The Duggar Bowl (family splits into two teams and plays each other)
The Tube Top Bowl
The Game & Fish Bowl (game is exempt from media coverage)
The Catfish Is Really Seafood Bowl
The Crystal is Pronounced Chrischul Bowl

[Torqued pork]

That's it!

The 6-6 Bowl
The .500 Bowl
The Awarding Your School for Being Painfully Average Bowl
The You're as Good as you are Bad Bowl
The C Average Bowl
The 5 Inch Member Bowl
The Joe Boxer Average Joe Bowl

Rick Schaeffer could be the head. Who can polish a turd better than Rick?

[NaturalStateReb]

Rick Schaeffer could be the head. Who can polish a turd better than Rick?

If Rick was heading it up, we'd have to call it the Sunshine and Rainbows Bowl.

[ADAM_713]

The Powerball Ticket and 2 Packs of Pall Malls Bowl
The Teen Mom Bowl
The Toddlers and Tiaras Bowl
The Duggar Bowl (family splits into two teams and plays each other)
The Tube Top Bowl
The Game & Fish Bowl (game is exempt from media coverage)
The Catfish Is Really Seafood Bowl
The Crystal is Pronounced Chrischul Bowl

They have a cat driving a clown car as a mascot at the Duggar Bowl.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/skyzyx/249270409/

[RAF]

The Dillards Over-Priced Yuppie Crap Bowl
The Stephens, Inc. Investments of Questionable Legality Bowl
The Friday Firm F*&$ You Bowl
The Jerry Jones Birthplace Bowl
The Repeatedly Robbed Dodge's Chicken Store Bowl
The Alltel, woops I mean Verizon Bowl
The North Little Rock Dogtown Inferiority Complex Bowl
The We Really Miss Bill Clinton / Big Glass Trailer House Bowl
The Heifer.Org Send-a-Tribesman a Goat Bowl
The Overrated BBQ Bowl
The Poor Quality Seafood Bowl
The Ludicrous Assertion Birthplace of Cheese Dip Bowl
The Holy Crap We've got to move to West Little Rock Bowl
The Don't Leave Anything in Your Yard Unattended for 10 Minutes Bowl

The possibilities are endless...

If - IF - there's ever a bowl game in LR, these are hands down the only acceptable names.