Hello: ReliaQuest Bowl (formerly known as the Outback Bowl)
In case you were wondering, ReliaQuest is a cybersecurity firm and does not have a suitable sideline mascot as far as I can tell.
Frank the Firewall is a fine mascot.
"Our ReliaQuest DDoS Threat Detection and Mitigation offensive line Player of the Game is ..."
But maybe they DO have a cyber security product called the Bloomin Onion
Dear VP of Marketing,
That doesn't make me want to buy and eat one.
A Guy Fawkes suit with mask would be perfect.
Thanks, I hate it.
Me too!
I was kind of hoping for the "Florida Man" bowl sponsored by Cash's Liquors.
Cash's Liquors... "The place your mother warned you about... Since 1965".
No more the Bloomin Onion player of the game. Damn
You've Been Pwned Player of the Game?
The Outback Bowl was the only one that I called by the sponsor name because unlike the rest it didn't change every few years. Now I'll have to just call it...the outback bowl i guess.
weirdly - most of the bowl games now have their names back, and the title sponsor is no longer the sole name of the bowl game. There are exceptions - most annoyingly the Cactus/Copper Bowl (which used to be CheezIt for a minute) and the Tangerine Bowl (which is now CheezIt). But I feel like somehow the trend has gone away from bowl game names being exclusively corporate.
Weird. Hopefully this happens with stadiums. Even moreso than bowls, when they change the names around I stop referring to them by their corporate names.
It'll always be Tigers Stadium to me, even at the new location.
Sobering thought: the 'new' location is already old enough to drink.
Given the Cactus Bowl is now the Guaranteed Rate Bowl --- and given the lack of 3-4% mortgages again any time soon --- that name may not be for long either.
The crass commercialization of every f'ing thing is a bane and a bore. The planet is bleeding out from numb stupidity. The more they change, the less people care. . . and maybe that's a good thing. I'd think twice about throwing my company's money at something that was going to make people chuckle, roll their eyes, and move on. "What are they calling it now?" "The Reliable something bowl. . . " "Great, who's playing?"
I mean, you GIVE a kid a name to build an identity around. You don't change it every five minutes.
They keep missing a bet on bowl names:
• Brews & Bowl
• Stacking Bowl
• What's-in-the Bowl
• Haircut Bowl
Bol Bowl
- The Toilet Bowl in Flushing, NY
Ty-D-Bol Bowl, aka Ty-D-Bowl, is a missed opportunity.
Get Off My Lawn Bowl
Hey, you! What are ya doin' on my . . . oh, wait. Never mind.
Tuck Going!!!
Welp, no more free blooming onion or coconut shrimp for the winner.
Yes, I know it just had a sponsor name previously, but a New Year's Day bowl should do better than just a sponsor name. Even the Vrbo Citrus Bowl still has Citrus Bowl in the title...
"You can't spell Outback without U-T."
-Ol' Ball Coach
Technically, Spurrier was talking about the Citrus Bowl.
Which leads to what I always thought was Spurrier's best quote, prior to the 1997 regular season: "I know why Peyton Manning came back for his senior year. He wants to be a 3-time MVP of the Citrus Bowl."
As it turned out, Spurrier himself landed in the Citrus Bowl that year. BUT Peyton didn't beat the Ol Ball Coach either - finishing 0-4 all time versus UF. Spurrier no doubt was smiling at that even despite their own disappointing 1997.
I miss the days when Hatin' Ass Spurrier was still going on EDSBS.
Thanks Nittany, Spurrier was my dude!! :-D
Or we could just call it by its original (non-corporate) name, the Hall of Fame Bowl.
I don't get the slavish attitude toward corporate naming "rights."
Yes you do. We're all corporate slaves.
Coming soon to a Michigan schedule near you!
An extremely sad day for team coconut shrimp.
Nope, not calling it that, just like I don't call the Sears Tower the Ellis Tower, Marshall Fields, Macy's, and Lake Shore Drive, Jean Baptiste DuSable Lake Shore Drive. Just not going to do it.
To be fair, nobody calls it the Ellis Tower.
I'm down with DuSable Lake Shore Drive though. I didn't know his story before that and it is both cool and enigmatic. Last year I learned a thing because of a renaming, so yay.
Damn, the Outback Bowl was the only bowl I've actually been to. I've been to dozens of regular season games, but outside my little brother performing at the halftime show of the 2017-2018 Northwestern/Tennessee Outback that is it. Ah well no matter lol.
Why is there no Top Ramen Bowl?
What a stupid name for a bowl game.
So I'm not going to get to see a giant Bloomin' Onion mascot running around all over the field anymore?
Dammit......