The Rose Bowl has been on January 1 or 2 every year but 2, 2002 and 2006 when it hosted a BCS national championship game.

So I got curious and got to googling.

In 2006, it rained on the parade. Nothing much about there being no Rose Bowl game after the parade though.

CBS News:m Raindrops on Roses
New York Times Article

The 2002 game took a lot of blowback because the BCS sent Nebraska, who didn't qualify for the Big 12 title game instead of AP #2 Oregon. So there was a lot going on there, on top of the Wednesday night timeslot and the first post-9/11 Rose Parade.

It's almost like the 2 events can work against each other. Whoever participates in the parade has to get up so early that they are too tired to go to the game.

I wonder how many fans actually attend both the parade and the bowl game in the same day.

I was at the 2002 parade. I had planned to visit LA that year. I don't know why I specifically chose that year when the Rose Bowl was hosting the championship game. I left town before the Rose Bowl kicked off. So I have no concept of Pasadena with the Rose Parade and bowl in the same day.

I wonder if after 2002 and 2006 the model of "double hosting" wound up the norm in the last BCS cycle. The championship games were on January 3/4 those years and the later you got away from Jan. 1 the worse it got for the bowls. This way the bowls could have their cake and eat it too. Once the Playoff started they realized that a week after NYD is even worse when you are a "bowl", it mainly just becomes a "national championship game" and they just started the norm of bidding it out as such and detaching it from the bowls.

Remember in the old BCS January 1 used to be the FIRST day of the bowls. From 1999 to 2014, not one BCS bowl was played in the month of December. Games were played on January 2, 3, or 4, even if it fell on a weekday. But in the New Year's Six era. games are now played on January 1 and BEFORE, the only times they play on January 2 now is when January 1 is on a Sunday or when January 2 is a Saturday. They'll go to December 31 or 30 and when the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl aren't semifinals the SF's will either be on December 31 or the Saturday BEFORE NYD. Once NYD is over it's practically "back to work" and for a bowl game, that's bad for business. The Saturday before NYD at least is between Christmas and New Year's, at least the bowl game has a chance. This year NYD is a Monday. Would any bowl game want to play Tuesday night January 3 this year? No. Will "Atlanta", "New Orleans", "Miami", "Phoenix", and "Dallas" want to host the semifinals and/or national championship games? Sure. Will they still want to have their bowl game? Yes. If the "Rose Bowl" wants to double host, I got news for you, every bowl game in the same situation would want to do the same, and there is precedent for it (the BCS).

(11-12-2022 09:31 AM)goofus Wrote:  It's almost like the 2 events can work against each other. Whoever participates in the parade has to get up so early that they are too tired to go to the game.

I wonder how many fans actually attend both the parade and the bowl game in the same day.

Most people who go to the game go to the parade. Its all part of the event. And the game is in the afternoon, so its not like its all day. But yes, you have to get up awfully early to get a spot to see the parade.