I’m not sure that I’ve made this emphatically clear before just now on this here website, but: I really, really don’t like bowl season.
The bowls that have existed for a century or so? They’re cool, I guess. The Rose Bowl and Orange Bowl and Sugar Bowl are all civic institutions in their various locales. My mom grew up in Miami, and spent her childhood in Florida; she remembers, in a time without widespread color television, the Orange Bowl Parade being a very cool thing to watch on TV around the New Year. I’m sure that Angelenos and New Orleanians have similar things to say about the Rose Bowl Parade and, uh, the slightly higher rate of public drinking in New Orleans around the Sugar Bowl, too.