Very petty, but makes me sad

HANC

HANC

All-Conference
This is really off of the beaten path and will surely get a lot of "Homer Simpson's" but everytime I go to a bowl game, it frustrates me when the bowl committee doesn't make arrangements with the stadium to paint the school names in the endzone.

IMO, if your bowl wants to really make the experience a little more "special", they should make sure one endzone is RED and says either Huskers or Nebraska and vice-versa.

I was just browsing last year's Holiday Bowl and saw they had the endzones painted San Diego Chargers. C'mon, it can't cost that much ore $$ to repaint the dang endzones, especially when the game is on a Wed. and the Chargers wouldn't potentially play until Sat.

Meaningless I know, but frustrating to me.

 
It pisses me off too!

No sarcasm...it really does....

It confuses my wife when she sees different team names in the endzone..

 
If i'm not mistaken, I think the Holiday Bowl is "one of those kind of games" that never has represented it's participants in the endzone. sh#t, at least put "HOLIDAY BOWL" in them.

 
I sent one mass e-mail to these addresses requesting that the end zones be painted to rep each school.

info@holidaybowl.com,

bink@holidaybowl.com,

mneville@holidaybowl.com,

rcoker@holidaybowl.com,

laura@holidaybowl.com,

jamila@holidaybowl.com,

Katharine@holidaybowl.com,

msawyer@holidaybowl.com,

psnyder@holidaybowl.com,

tish@holidaybowl.com

 
Just received a reply.

Thanks for your e-mail. Because we share the Stadium, and the Chargers have a game soon after ours, it is difficult to put the team colors or logos in the end zone. However, the end zone does not say San Diego Chargers....and it has never said Chargers. It reads San Diego...Believe me, I would like to make the end zones more Holiday Bowl friendly, however, because we share the stadium and the Chargers have a game the Sunday following our game, it is simply not possible.


Thanks for your interest and support of the Holiday Bowl.

Bruce Binkowski

Executive Director
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FWIW - They do change the field paint. The Holiday Bowl logo is painted at midfield, and although they are lazy with the endzones, they both say San Diego in the Chargers font, but with a red line instead of a yellow (navy and red are the Holiday Bowl colors). So they are a little different than the normal Chargers' endzones.

I agree it would be nice to see the team names though.

 
Nexus said:
Just received a reply.

Thanks for your e-mail. Because we share the Stadium, and the Chargers have a game soon after ours, it is difficult to put the team colors or logos in the end zone. However, the end zone does not say San Diego Chargers....and it has never said Chargers. It reads San Diego...Believe me, I would like to make the end zones more Holiday Bowl friendly, however, because we share the stadium and the Chargers have a game the Sunday following our game, it is simply not possible.


Thanks for your interest and support of the Holiday Bowl.

Bruce Binkowski

Executive Director
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You write that guy back and tell him that's just not good enough!

E: Spelling error

 
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I wrote to them as well.

Maybe if we get enough people, they'll actually do it.

Anyway, here's what I wrote

It has come to my attention that the end zones at the holiday bowlwill not be painted to suit the 2 teams playing. I think, however,

that this should be reversed and that each team will have an endzone

representing their school. After all, you do have a Heisman candidate

(and possibly one of San Diego's players next year) playing on this

field, the least you could do is make him feel at home.

Push comes to shove, if you fly me out to San Diego, I will gladly

take the time to paint the endzones, and have them restored to their

former glory promptly.

Sincerely,

P.S. Happy Holidays. :)
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I remember going to a chiefs game a couple of years ago. The day after the big 12 championship and the endzones had been repainted. How is 4 days that far out of the question to repaint the endzones

 
Four days is plenty of time to re-paint. They just don't want to bother.

 
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