The Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl is out here straight grinding, having hula hoop contests and so forth, while the Pinstripe Bowl can't even hand out some pom poms:
↵↵↵The failure for the bowl hosts to organize pep rallies for the participating teams is simply a reflection of a lack of commitment by the Big East, Northeast football culture and the mostly the Yankees.
↵The Yankees promote the Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium as some sort of revival of classic college football in NYC - a return to tradition. They've touted that except for the potentially cold weather (because football should be played in the cold), the Pinstripe Bowl is as marquee as any other bowl - big payouts, big city, big name stadium. But, in the proud New York tradition, the Pinstripe Bowl is lacking the most intangible and traditional aspects of bowl destinations - hospitality and celebration.
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