College Bowl Games

The first Rose Bowl football that was nationally televised was in 1962. I had been married for 7 years and had two children, Kurt-2- and Mark-1 and I was an USPHS officer-dentist serving in the Federal Prison system.

There were only 4 bowl games then--Orange, Sugar, Cotton and Rose, and two parades, Cotton and Rose. All were played on NY Day. NBC was the first to televise the Rose Bowl parade and game on color TV, a big sales coup for NBC-RCA.

Billie and p00-paw went to a Rose Bowl game in 1991 only to see Iowa get the corn shucked out of them, Washington 28, Iowa zip. Our seats were in the drunken Eskimo section so we were happy for the skunk.

Now there are 32 Bowls, come rain or come snow.