OT: Citrus Bowl name returns
Just noticed this the other day.
Nice to see the Citrus Bowl name is back. Sure, it seems silly with the sponsor but I'm glad the corporations have allowed the traditional bowl names back.
It appears Capital One is now the sponsor of the Orange Bowl.
Introducing the Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl
Maybe we can play in this bowl again some day.
Here's the new Orange Bowl logo.
And the Fiesta
Boo to those. I grew up with the FedEx, Nokia and Tostitos logos for the Orange, Sugar and Fiesta Bowl respectively.
November 7th, 2014 at 9:56 PM ^
Wings would be pretty cool
November 7th, 2014 at 9:59 PM ^
About damn time. This needs to happen with all the bowls.
November 7th, 2014 at 9:59 PM ^
Hey WD, go out and party
November 7th, 2014 at 10:20 PM ^
November 7th, 2014 at 11:00 PM ^
Boink??? Ohhh, you mean what Jameis Winston said to do.
November 7th, 2014 at 10:08 PM ^
Nokia no longer exists.
November 7th, 2014 at 10:59 PM ^
November 7th, 2014 at 11:07 PM ^
November 7th, 2014 at 11:19 PM ^
so for marketing purposes, Nokia allowed Microsoft to sell the phones as "Nokia Lumia", even though the Lumia cell phone business is now wholly owned by Microsoft.
Coincidentally, Microsoft and Nokia just recently announced that Microsoft will be dropping the Nokia name and starting to sell the Lumia as the Microsoft Lumia.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-officially-cut-nokias-brand-122…
Microsoft and Nokia have officially announced that the Finnish smartphone maker will no longer be a part of the branding for Lumia Windows Phone devices. Tuula Rytilä, Microsoft's senior vice president of marketing for phones, shared the news via Nokia's Conversations blog (via The Verge). This means coming Lumia smartphones will be referred to as "Microsoft Lumia" rather than "Nokia Lumia."
November 7th, 2014 at 11:11 PM ^
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=NOK&ql=1
Microsoft bought the cell phone business from Nokia for $7.2 billion, but Nokia's other lines of businesses remain in operation under the Nokia Corporation.
HERE is Nokia's mapping division and the Technologies line owns a good deal of patents.
November 7th, 2014 at 10:14 PM ^
buy Nokia ?
November 7th, 2014 at 10:16 PM ^
They bought it and laid off pretty much all of their employees.
November 7th, 2014 at 10:22 PM ^
It will always be the Nokia Sugar Bowl to me.
November 7th, 2014 at 10:20 PM ^
So you grew up with the names those bowls went with like five minutes before these.
For all of us who grew up without bowl sponsorships, this is all just reshuffling the status quo. New company, new year, new crappy logo.
November 7th, 2014 at 10:25 PM ^
Maybe I miss it becaue I miss the Michigan teams that played when it was still called that.
November 7th, 2014 at 11:47 PM ^
when Michigan played in the fucking Rose Bowl on a regular basis.
November 8th, 2014 at 10:12 AM ^
Fu*king sponsored the Rose Bowl. . . . When there would be a lot of Fu*king commercials, and the halftime show featured "A Salute To Fu*king." . . . I miss those days when Michigan played in the Fu*king Rose Bowl.
November 8th, 2014 at 12:45 PM ^
I'm old enough to remember when Big Ten teams couldn't play in the Rose Bowl two years in a row, and in addition, couldn't play in any other bowls at all.
November 7th, 2014 at 10:27 PM ^
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November 7th, 2014 at 10:29 PM ^
November 7th, 2014 at 10:33 PM ^
to that bro
November 7th, 2014 at 10:33 PM ^
I am sad I got miss out on the 1990 Poulan Weedeater Bowl.
I can't believe that was actually a thing. And Notre Dame played in it!
November 7th, 2014 at 11:03 PM ^
Was that during the year(s) when the running joke about ND was...."Know what the difference is between Notre Dame and Cheerios? Cheerios belongs in a bowl"
November 7th, 2014 at 10:51 PM ^
New name for the Copper/Insight/BWW Bowl.
November 7th, 2014 at 11:03 PM ^
Not exactly so, but the era before the Fiesta Bowl started stealing teams from their traditional bowls. Back when all the New Year's Day bowls were equally relevant. We'd spend December working through the combinations needed for Team XYZ to be the MNC. Then we'd come back to school or work a couple of days after the bowl games and spend the next nine months arguing about what it all meant. Personally I don't look forward to the finality that the championship game brings.
November 8th, 2014 at 12:31 AM ^
November 8th, 2014 at 12:45 AM ^
If Michigan makes the playoff, we might play in the Cotton or Peach Bowl. Those are two prestigious bowl games we've never had a chance to play in.
November 8th, 2014 at 1:21 AM ^
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Cotton Bowl at AT&T Stadium. Which is better than the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Cotton Bowl at the Cotton Bowl because, that stadium is one worn out old lady.
To add to the confusion, the Heart of Dallas Bowl game is played at the Cotton Bowl and there have been suggestions to revive the Bluebonnet Bowl at the Cotton Bowl.
November 7th, 2014 at 10:42 PM ^
They need to bring back all the old names. Sun Bowl back to John Hancock. Outback reverts to Hall of Fame. And whatever the hell the Bluebonnet Bowl is today.
EDIT: And how could I forget our very own Cherry Bowl!?
November 7th, 2014 at 10:44 PM ^
The Cherry Bowl that lasted two years? Also, the venue it was played in is now the world's largest bird bath.
November 7th, 2014 at 11:46 PM ^
You can't hate on the Silverdome, man. The Pistons played there.
November 7th, 2014 at 11:06 PM ^
delete
November 7th, 2014 at 11:37 PM ^
wait... you want the Sun Bowl to go back to it's corporate name from the late 80's instead of just being the Sun Bowl? I'm confused... did you think John Hancock was an organic name and that "Sun" was like a reference to Sun Chips or some shit?
November 8th, 2014 at 11:47 AM ^
I meant more from a nostalgic perspective than anything else. But, no, I didn't realize its previous name was in reference to its sponsor. I remember it from the '80s and early '90s, when corporate bowl names didn't seem to be as widespread (though my memory may be a little fuzzy, being as I was elementary school-aged during this time), so I assumed it was a nod to the man himself, not a financial services company. I humbly, sincerely, and profusely apologize, good sir...
November 7th, 2014 at 10:40 PM ^
with Notre Dame
November 8th, 2014 at 12:13 AM ^
Honestly, this is probably a valid response to anything that could be said around here.
November 8th, 2014 at 12:25 AM ^
"A Michigan Man does not curse, unless it is in the name of Notre Dame."
November 7th, 2014 at 10:42 PM ^
Sunkist or Tropicana Citrus Bowl would have been so much better.
They ruined the Fiesta Bowl. This was a great logo...
November 8th, 2014 at 1:44 AM ^
And the sponsor was actually relevant to the bowl name.
November 7th, 2014 at 10:59 PM ^
November 7th, 2014 at 11:06 PM ^
The Gator Bowl is gone...
November 7th, 2014 at 11:48 PM ^
meh. It'll come back. They always seem to. The Capital One Bowl was about the most ensconsed one and boom, here we are.
November 7th, 2014 at 11:14 PM ^
Corporatization of America. Yay.
not.
November 8th, 2014 at 1:45 AM ^
Hi, Dave.
Whatcha been doin?
November 7th, 2014 at 11:33 PM ^
November 7th, 2014 at 11:41 PM ^
I hate to say it- but I find all of this incredibly depressing. I grew up in the 60's and 70's when these bowl were named simply after the main agricultural crop of the region. They had an aunthenticity I simply do not feel they have today.
The corporate logo is always bigger and first, then the traditional name- might as well be honest and get rid of the original bowl name altogether rather than make it bow to the corporate name.
College football has so little regard for tradition anymore that it might as well be done away with oficially altogether- why keep a semblance of it to mock the past with? Remember Oklahoma vs. Nebraska every year at the end?
Lets just call every bowl the "greed bowl" and get it over with- number them to tell the difference between greed bowls.
November 8th, 2014 at 12:30 AM ^
Microcosm of the direction America's going. So it only makes sense for entertainment to follow as well.
November 8th, 2014 at 12:54 AM ^
Reminds me of the famous line that Spurrier coined when he was the HC at Florida: "You can't spell Citrus without UT"