re: Rose Bowl ALWAYS Host CFB Championship

If you look at population figures alone in the United States, that really doesn’t make good sense IMO. Roughly 2/3rds of this country’s population lives east of the Mississippi River, and Pasadena is on the western most part of the country’s population, albeit in a very populous state. However, there is a lot going on in California to divert attention away from CFB, and I’d say per capita, is not really what one would call rabid CFB fans. I realize it’s the National Championship and will draw fans, but I just don’t think it makes good sense to put it so far away from where the real heart of CFB fans and big time college football programs are located geographically, or at least not every year let’s say. To the best of my knowledge, no sport does that.

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the portals accommodate 2 1/2 people at a time.

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When we were there for the UGA/OU game the thought occurred to me that ganging folks up like cattle heading down a chute seems like a good way for some idiot to or group of people to cause all manner of ill shite. There were probably 35,000 people in line waiting for the shuttle busses back to a train station and the buses showed up 4 at a time and then took about 20 minutes between trips...so they may have carried 400 people every 20 minutes. Had all of those people stayed in that line it would have taken about 30 hours to haul them all away. After about 2 hours most of those people left the line and walked the 2 miles to the nearest train station. During that game the closest Uber or a cab could get before the game was a little over a mile away and after the game it was almost 2 miles. The parking situation is WORSE than that...2 - 3 hours to get back to Pasadena which will be crawling as will the entirety of the area. Walking back to Pasadena (2 miles) and taking the train back to the east took us about 2 hours all told. We left the Parade at 10 am for a 5 PM kickoff. The seats we were in for the parade were a little less than 4 miles from the stadium. We left the parade about an hour or so before it ended to get ahead of the crowd, thinking we could uber, take a cab or use public transit. Had all three mapped out in case one didn't work. We took a combination of all 3. We nearly missed the kick off. almost 6 hours to travel less than 4 miles. That may have been just a bad day and its better normally but talking to local folks, especially cab and uber drivers, it was pretty typical. The local authorities do absolutely NOTHING to facilitate going to either event, going to both is a LOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG day. It is almost not feasible. Just getting to the game anytime after about 9 AM on game day would be worse than any traffic I have ever seen in Atlanta. I won't go back...been there, done that. It was bucket list trip and its been filled. I don't care where the natty is but the Rose Bowl would be the worst possible place to hold it.

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Rose Bowl ALWAYS Host CFB Championship

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I keep saying it but the B1G keeps wanting to deal them the stacked deck when they fall behind on the actual product

First the monopoly in the 50's, 60's, and 70's

The realignment Round 1 (adding Penn State but not Notre Dame)
The realignment Round 2 (wanting ND and Utx and killing the B12)
The realignment Round 3 (wanting ND and Utx and killing the PAC)

Agreed. It is The Masters of CFB. I was blown away in January 2014 when Auburn played Florida State.

That Michigan/Alabama game was special.

When the Texas/Washington game came on the scenery was completely inferior compared to the Rose Bowl. The field, the lights, the mountains, the Rose Bowl logo lighting up on the stadium as the sun sets. It’s magical.

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Obviously never been to a game in the Rose Bowl It has amazing views and looks beautiful on TV but that’s it. When I lived near Pasadena we went to a few UCLA games and I went when LSU played a couple years ago. Always came away disappointed in the actual game day experience.

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A Rose Bowl game with championship implications is a whole different level than UCLA playing there on a random Saturday.

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went to the AFC Championship as a guest of a guest of the Irsay family, it was the year Peyton rallied the Colts back & they went on to win the SB. I've been in cities after a big win and with the crew I'm rolling with I'm thinking the after party might end up better than the game. Nope. The entire state is a bunch of Dan Quayle/Mike Pence looking cornbread honkies and it was a damn ghost town not two hours after the game. I'm expecting to wake up in a strip club if not the backseat of a flipped over burned out taxi, but all I got was the image of the cast in "Children of the Corn" in Manning jerseys seared into my brain.

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This is the quality writing I’m looking for on tRant. That is awesome.

Stadium is a shite hole...like Kirkstreit