Name Amazon American College Football Tony Tiger, pirates and more: William Shakespeare clearly wasn't a follower of college football season, otherwise he would never have written "What's in a name? What do we call a rose with every other name would smell so sweet, "in" Romeo and Juliet. "

The name of the game for college football bowls starts today with - Are you ready? - The Makers Wanted Bahamas Bowl 2 p.m. on ESPN with a glass of the Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl.

The story behind the Bahamas Bowl can be found here. It is a unique proposition for a sporting event and, like a soccer ball, has received some unexpected bounces. The Frisco Bowl has its own little story of weirdness.

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The game began its life as the Miami Beach Bowl in 2014. It was played in Marlins Park, a baseball stadium seven miles from Miami Beach and in a separate city: the city of Miami Beach is independent of the city. from Miami. In 2017, ESPN purchased the game and renamed The Frisco Bowl.

Some thought the game would be moving to San Francisco. No, the game takes place in Frisco, Texas, which is 28 miles from Dallas and is home to one of the legendary games, the Cotton Bowl. DXL Men's Apparel was the main sponsor of Frisco's first two contests. The Tropical Smoothie Café chain of 650 stores is taking over this year.

Pay for the state of Utah and the state of Kent is $ 650,000, and presumably every tropical smoothie you can drink.

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The Camellia Bowl in Montgomery, Alabama has no primary sponsor and should not be confused with the 1948 bowl of the same name played in Lafayette, Louisiana, a game played from 1961 to 1975 and once in 1980 in Sacramento. , California.

So what do all three cities share in being the home of this game? Apparently flowers. According to the United States Camellia Society (Yes, there is such a thing): "The camellia flower often falls off the whole plant, which symbolizes the cut off of a man's head."

Pay for this game is $ 300,000, one of the lowest in the bowling season, which will be split between Florida International University and Eastern Michigan on December 21.

From Camellia to Gasparilla. No, this is not another flower.

The Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl is named after José Gaspar, a legendary pirate who operated in the Tampa Bay area and is the inspiration for the Tampa Gasparilla Pirate Festival. The game is played at Raymond James Stadium, which is home to the NFL Buccaneers. It actually started in 2008 as the St. Petersburg Bowl before changing to honor the legendary pirate in 2017. The title's sponsorship comes from tech accessory MagicJack, after Bitcoin and Beef O'Brady s, a Tampa-based 202 sports pub chain. He had two bowl names with four different sponsors in 11 years, but Marshall University and the University of Central Florida will not worry about this story, because they will split $ 1.2 million on December 23.

One of the most popular games, at least with players and coaches, is the Hawai'i Bowl. It joins a long line of bowls played in the 50th state of our nation. It all started with the Poi Bowl (1936-1939), then the Pineapple Bowl (1940-1941, 1947-1952), followed by the Aloha Bowl (1982-2000) and the Oahu Bowl (1998-2000). The last two had Jeep as their primary sponsor.

This latest edition of pork in paradise started in 2018 with Sofi as its primary sponsor. Sofi made a name for himself with the Millennium Millennial Millennial Loan Marketing Refinancing, so this link makes sense. On Christmas Eve, the hometown of the University of Hawaii and Brigham Young University will split $ 1.2 million or $ 999 million less than total student debt in the United States.

The Independence Bowl began in 1976 with the best intentions: to honor our nation's birthday and the fight for freedom. Then, title sponsorship came from 1990 to 1996, the Poulan Weed-Eater Independence Bowl. Several other world-class title sponsors followed until 2014 when Duck Commander, which manufactures duck hunting equipment, joined. The story of the name rights to this game is being dropped off its official website.