Bowl games have weird titles. That’s part of their charm. But if you think the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowls and Bitcoin Bowls of the 21st century are the strangest it gets, you haven’t studied up on your history. Here are the 10 best defunct bowl titles.
10. Oil Bowl
There was a trend in the 1940s to name bowls after the most popular commodity of the city or region in which they were played. As such, there was once the Oil Bowl, which took place in Houston in 1944 and again from 1946-47. As far as bowls go, this one was pretty slick (we’ll show ourselves out).