Maybe you can “Remember When” the Cotton Bowl on CBS TV, the Rose Bowl on NBC TV, and the Orange Bowl on NBC were the key New Years Day Bowl Games…Later on the Sugar Bowl joined the fray on ABC TV…..
Lindsey Nelson on CBS with the Cotton Bowl coming on around 1pm, then at 4pm you would have the Rose Bowl on NBC TV with Dick Enberg and maybe Merlin Olson helping him on the broadcast, and the Orange Bowl would close out the day/night on NBC TV, with Don Criqui or another NBC announcer on the call…Somtimes Al Derogotis would join Don Criqui….Orange Bowl would regularly kick off at around 8pm…
Later the Sugar Bowl would get a shot on ABC TV with Keith Jackson on the call…The Sugar Bowl would usually have their kickoff at around 3:45pm….
And that was it…That was the lineup, and that would be all of the New Years Day Bowl games…And made for a good lineup, it worked, and they should have left it alone….Now we are oversaturated with New Years Day Games….Lindsey Nelson, Dick Enberg, Don Criqui, Keith Jackson, those were the BIG names calling the games, back in the day….
Bring back those days of the Cotton Bowl, the Rose Bowl, the Orange Bowl, and the Sugar Bowl….The Johns Curb Market/Eastside Grocery/FoodRite Market and Deli/Jay’s Deli Bowl is coming soon, it has to be, right???