BSpringsteen
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Well the Pinstripe Bowl is proibably one bowl game I would go to not called the Rose Bowl or National Championship game.
Pin Stripe Bowl?
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bighawkeyedaddy
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From my experience the Orange Bowl is a cold weather bowl, as it wasn't exactly summer temps when we went down there last. I don't see myself spending the jack to visit NYC for New Years, the cost of the last minute reservations plus the fact you are going to be watching 2 teams that don't really deserve a bowl bid would kind of ruin it for me.
If the Yanks want a bowl they should pony up the cash to jump the line. Just too much working against that trip to have it be a last spot in the conference eligible bowl. If they want a B1G team's fans to pay the jack foe that to be the winter holiday, they need to at least jump the Gator and Insight, maybe even the Outback, in payout.
Airline tickets would be terrible as the competition with the new years eve in New York would suck. Can you imagine hotel room it would make staying at the Fountainblu in Miami look like Motel 6 as far as prices go. I would not even want to attempt it. I wonder what ISU people paid for air fare and rooms.
HawkForce
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I'm dead set against cold weather bowl games....but if it replaced Detroit...that would be ok.
But it's part of the reason I'm against on-campus playoffs....I don't know about you guys, but I have seen some of those FCS games played in Montana and such...that weather looks like miserable football watching weather....Just have it in Miami or Pasadena.
But alas if we go to a 16 team playoff eventually....Iowa won't have to worry about it...because we won't be playing in them.
But it's part of the reason I'm against on-campus playoffs....I don't know about you guys, but I have seen some of those FCS games played in Montana and such...that weather looks like miserable football watching weather....Just have it in Miami or Pasadena.
But alas if we go to a 16 team playoff eventually....Iowa won't have to worry about it...because we won't be playing in them.
Really we have been to Arizona twice and although the weather was nicer, the Pinstripe Bowl has something different, maybe its monument park, maybe its New York at New Year's or maybe its just because it is Yankee Stadium.
Section136
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OH BOY!!!
DexterMorgan
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My thoughts as well. I'd much rather go to the pinstripe than the insight.
DexterMorgan
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I assumed the same thing but most I've talked to said isn't wasn't as bad as they thought. Go look at a room for this weekend in NYC, you'll be paying 3-400 a night. NYC be expensive.
Chickenlounge
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Can you ask those people what they paid in airfare, hotels, how close they stayed to the stadium, etc.? I'm just curious what the costs associated with this bowl game would be, if we ever had the misfortune to go.
DexterMorgan
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Spoke with one of the ISU players and he said he much preferred the experience at the pin stripe. From the way they were treated by the bowl staff, to getting to use (or maybe just go through, thought they got to use) the Yankees locker rooms, to the free bees they got, the tours they went on etc.
Granted they got extremely lucky with the weather.
Granted they got extremely lucky with the weather.
Hawkfromnorwalk
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I still say the biggest issue with a bowl game in NYC around New Years is the fact that you only have about 20 days to book the trip, whereas most people who plan on going to NYC to watch the ball drop have been planning the trip for probably months. By the time the bowls are announced it's probably just slim pickings for hotel rooms, unless you want to stay in the outskirts of the city and drive in.
Hawkfromnorwalk
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That may be the case but as you well know, warm weather bowl games sell themselves, not just to the fans but the teams as well. If you don't have that, you have to work harder to impress your guests. So it's not out of the norm to hear that the players were treated extremely well.
Billso
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Stay at the Newark Hilton or out in Yonkers or White Plains or Long Island and take the train in. 30 minutes, cheap and easy. Manhattan is not for budget travelers, ever.
Newark downtown is no prize but the Hilton is connected to the station - very slick - 21 minute ride to Penn Station. And half the price of their Manhattan hotels.
DexterMorgan
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makes sense
ICHawk24
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A bowl in old Yankee Stadium would be awesome. In their new concrete warehouse dump? Not as cool.
I know from an overall expense standpoint some friends paid around $2,000.00 and over. The motel room is what really costs since it is around New Year's. I want to say like 250-300 a night. But it was better than any other bowl game they had been to and some who even went to the Peach Bowl in the 70's said the same thing.
BSpringsteen
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Why do I have the feeling that the people complaining about spending NYE in NYC have never been outside of 41st and 47th streets.