http://www.latimes.com/sports/nationworl...1624.story

NEW YORK (AP) — The first Pinstripe Bowl will be played at Yankee Stadium on Dec. 30 and will be televised by ESPN.

The game will include the No. 3 team in the Big East and the No. 6 school in the Big 12, excluding Bowl Championship Series participants.

ESPN agreed to a six-year contract, the Yankees said Tuesday, and New Era Cap Co. Inc. agreed to a four-year deal to be the title sponsor. Future games will be played no earlier than Christmas and no later than New Year's Day.

This will be the first bowl game at Yankee Stadium since Nebraska defeated Miami 36-34 at old Yankee Stadium on Dec. 15, 1962.

The first football game at the new $1.5 billion stadium will be Nov. 20, when Notre Dame plays Army.

Setting the date just before New Year's Eve is great for marketing purposes. You could sell bowl packages with hotel accomodations through New Year's Eve. NYC over New Year's is a blast. There's fun for the whole family, no matter what you're interested in. You'd also be able to kick in a new decade at Times Square, if you like...

NOTE: I must admit, when I saw the title on this thread, my first thought was of a bowl game officiated by those referees voted worst referee from each BCS conference. Sarcasm always rules first for me...

Sure, and all the fans coming to NYC will be tourists who'd be interested in being in a crowd bigger than their hometown. I know that no real New Yorker would be caught dead on Manhatten on New Year's Eve, unless he has a safe hideaway somewhere. What else is new?

That's what tourists are for, dude...

(03-09-2010 03:33 PM)KnightChris Wrote:  

(03-09-2010 11:53 AM)bitcruncher Wrote:  Setting the date just before New Year's Eve is great for marketing purposes. You could sell bowl packages with hotel accomodations through New Year's Eve. NYC over New Year's is a blast. There's fun for the whole family, no matter what you're interested in. You'd also be able to kick in a new decade at Times Square, if you like...

Trust me, it's not. It's a bunch of tourists crowding into Times Square. I tend to spend the night in an outer boro, waiting until the next day when it's safe to return to Manhattan.

I just avoid Midtown and Chelsea like the plague. I've done the Village more than a few times. I just try to avoid the tourists and the B&T crowd (which arguably I'm one of I just don't fit the stereotype.)

Times Square on NYE is not my idea of a good time.