THE EDSBS BOWL: LET’S RIDE
St. Petersburg has a new bowl game, and we have one number for you, people: $350,000. Yes, all it takes to turn the as-yet-unnamed St. Pete Bowl into the EDSBS Bowl is a measly $350,000 in any currency. Imagine the splendor:
Flyby done by: A low-flying dirigible. Extra spice will be added when hundreds of turkeys are pushed from the blimp onto the stands.
Alternative flyby: Fat bikers in hang gliders holding sparklers. Did we mention they were naked and drunk, too?
Sponsors would include: Zybrowka Vodka, RoboTussin PM (for nightlife!), Cocaine Cowboys, the official bloodcokeumentary of EDSBS, Mercenaries 2, Burning Angel, and Chik-Fil-A. Goddamn, Chik-Fil-A is good. (Get it? Get it?)
Game announcers: Play-by-play: Ron Franklin, but only if we get to shoot him up with ketamine first. Color commentary: CNN commentator Richard Quest, fresh out of rehab with the volume turned up. Sideline reporter: Stephen Hawking.
Halftime entertainment: Tampa Bay’s own Morbid Angel.
For children, an alternate show will be provided outside with the Veggie Tales and special guest Deicide.
Goodie bag will include: one can of Busch Light, one tube bronzer, one pair old man blast goggle sunglasses, a scoop of ropa vieja ladled on top of everything.
All for just $350K, reader. If wishes were horses, people, we’d be running our own glue factory at this point. Let’s make this horse a winner. If everyone who reads this blog just sends in one dollar, we’ll have enough to make me only ask for a dollar TEN TIMES EACH. If Paultards can raise eight zillion dollars and get their own blimp, we can make this dream a horrifying, weeping reality.
(Actually, the Ron Paul Bowl would be uproariously funny, especially because the field wouldn’t have lines.)









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NewAZTiger says:
Man, all I got is 349,999.
May 1st, 2008 at 3:55 pm
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The Conscience of a Nation says:
YAY! We TOTALLY are going. Home sweet home, baby!
May 1st, 2008 at 3:57 pm
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meg says:
where do I send my 10 dollars? If it gets me a sweet sponsor seat, I will be there.
May 1st, 2008 at 3:58 pm
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DC Trojan says:
Couldn’t we name it the Buzz Bissinger Blog Bowl?
May 1st, 2008 at 4:01 pm
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SAWB says:
Absolutely brilliant. Can we get Six Feet Under and Iced Earth on the pregame bill?
May 1st, 2008 at 4:01 pm
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haybeav says:
I think this should be the official fly over for the bowl game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9g4axEXZdI&feature=related
May 1st, 2008 at 4:06 pm
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hunglikehussain says:
Think you could get tOSU band to play a rousing rendition of “Dixie”? Script SEC?
They will more than likely be one of the participants!
May 1st, 2008 at 4:06 pm
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blon57 says:
If we all kick in $20? How many EDSBS readers, Orson? Would that do it?
‘Talk about pissing off the guy on the Costas show…the blogsphere has credibility. One of the biggest college football blogs just sponsored a bowl game! One of, what, 200 bowl games now?
May 1st, 2008 at 4:07 pm
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Sad State of Affairs says:
Good. This should uphold the sanctity of bowl games.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:07 pm
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Holly says:
Yes, we can.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:08 pm
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mlmintampa says:
The flybys will be televised. You know, since this is in a dome and all. They could put it at Al Lang, but sporting events there disturb the old people who moved to St. Pete to look at art and die.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:09 pm
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That 5.0 Guy says:
#8 @ blon57
-It’s one more bowl game than the Washington Post, New York Times, and the LA Times have sponsored.
Orson, imagine if the St. Pete Times got in on the bowl. Talk about classy.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:09 pm
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socalbryan says:
The EDSBS Bowl featuring the North and South Fulmer Cup All-Star teams (North and South, instead of East v West, because we should revive civil war era hatered whenever possible).
Instead of normal college skills competitions, you could have the following: snorting blow competition; ho slapping competition; firearms competition; bong clearing competition, etc.
It very well could be the greatest Bowl Game evaaa.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:11 pm
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socalbryan says:
yes. i realize i spelled hatred wrong. my bad. Orson needs to include some sort of spell check feature here.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:14 pm
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Crazy Joe says:
Why not set up EDSBS Bowl LLC?
Then people can purchase however many $10 interests they want – distribute the sponsorship perks (seats in the boxes, etc) based on ownership percentages.
I’m sure you could get one of the lawyers on here to set that up….
May 1st, 2008 at 4:23 pm
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hunglikehussain says:
I’m thinking a 10% discount to those fans dressed in Roman garb. Those dressed in Hebrew attire will get a “special” halftime show field pass.
Don’t forget about having a Queen. Gotta have a Queen.
I’m thinking along the lines of a “Texas Death Match” ring, with the last one standing, gets the crown
May 1st, 2008 at 4:26 pm
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jakldawg says:
So will the next edition of EDSBS Live! be like PBS during pledge season? And which would you prefer as sponsors: Early Times or Kentucky Tavern (both so good, you only dare speak their initials)? Because I can make some calls.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:28 pm
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Pick6Bamr says:
Ok, I’ll kick in 1k if Leningrad Cowboys are the halftime show…and the good seats, of course. Also, Keith Jackson on the PA
May 1st, 2008 at 4:28 pm
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MCab says:
The Levis Jorts Bowl?
Will the center logo be Mayra Veronica?
#13, found the winner of the firearms competition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvv-PI9dwjY
May 1st, 2008 at 4:29 pm
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Doug says:
Sign Hey Jenny Slater GmbH up for a scoreboard logo and a skybox.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:31 pm
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Dave says:
If you set up a legit fund (verified by the legion of group fivers around here), I’m good for at least $20. If the Firefox community can raise enough money to take out ads in the NY Times, than why not this?
Heck, call it the Blog Bowl and get more sites and communities on board. Have a different site plugged each before an after commercial break.
Just imagine how awkward it’d be for the ESPN crew, especially since you know that, it being held in Florida and all, Lee Corso will be on the crew for that game.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:33 pm
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NewAZTiger says:
The Nick Saban doesn’t have Time for this Shit Bowl.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:38 pm
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TideDruid says:
We could always just purchase a short commercial at the BCS national championship game for just a few 100,000 more!
May 1st, 2008 at 4:39 pm
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hunglikehussain says:
350K? Ryan Perrilioux can knock that out over the weekend.
Let him be a Grand Marshal or something.
O, think outside the box here!
May 1st, 2008 at 4:57 pm
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Garrett says:
So here’s my suggestion: The Wiki-Bowl…apparently Wikimedia, the group that runs all the wiki sights, is run out of St. Petersburg. On top of this, naming the bowl this would allow for some really great opportunities as far as the game goes…Just think, any fan could contribute to the bowl’s parameters, as long as they had 2 or 3 legitimate-”Seeming” sources to back them up..think of the possibilities: players getting kicked out of the game for committing penalties because some hippie old guy referenced a french “soccer” manual
May 1st, 2008 at 5:14 pm
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PeterPumpkinhead says:
I’d pitch in at least $20 to see this happen…
How soon do you have to have the money raised?
May 1st, 2008 at 5:16 pm
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hunglikehussain says:
Of course you have to get the local St. Pete community involved.
Let’s say…a Bea Arthur/Wilfred Brimley look-a-like contest.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:20 pm
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John says:
You know Orson, I totally would give you the money for a bowl game. Just not for one being played in the shitactular Tropicana Field
May 1st, 2008 at 5:22 pm
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hunglikehussain says:
BTW, I clicked on the “Britney Nipple Slip” ad 5x. How much is that worth?
May 1st, 2008 at 5:23 pm
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hunglikehussain says:
I didn’t catch the CNN “Dick” Quest reference the first time. Then I remembered. Sometimes humor just writes itself.
http://tinyurl.com/5qsfsq
May 1st, 2008 at 5:31 pm
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Rich says:
Surely WordPress and Mountain Dew would pitch in sponsorship dollars, as the blogger’s best friends?
May 1st, 2008 at 5:49 pm
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baconboy says:
Half-time show by Mons Venus! http://www.monsvenus.com
A Tampa classic.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:51 pm
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Martha says:
I’m in for $100 and could be talked into a bunch more…
May 1st, 2008 at 5:52 pm
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Xaryn says:
With God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
May 1st, 2008 at 6:07 pm
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gerry dorsey says:
somewhere, somehow we need the involvement of some sort of gambling entity. a casino, a website, a local tampa bookie, whatever.
May 1st, 2008 at 6:23 pm
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Der Schatten says:
FUCKIN’ A!!!! MORBID ANGEL! Back when I was in college at The Capstone, saw these monsters play in Ensely (bring your Tecs and wear a jacket), and DAMNED it was brutal. There was a chick who was a huuuuuuge fan, dressed as a nun, and she moshed around the floor, tearing her clothes, rending her flesh, and having equally demonic chicks lick the blood from her self-inflicted wounds. To no one’s suprise, Trey Azagoth took her for a lil spin in the coffin later that night
May 1st, 2008 at 6:27 pm
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Tomaso says:
I will absolutely start at 100, and like others could be talked into more. I think it would be good for so many people, on so many levels.
May 1st, 2008 at 6:30 pm
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hunglikehussain says:
@35
Sounds like an acceptable candidate for the “Queens” court.
Working as a team we can make this happen!
May 1st, 2008 at 6:32 pm
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Der Schatten says:
O, O, O,
While Morbid Angel clearly is the shit, and Deicide is decidedly the most brutal shit on the planet (excepting mid-90’s Carcass or Cannibal Corpse, and present day Dying Fetus), how could you forget to add the undercard of Obituary and Malevolent Creation? Maybe Burns and the guys from Morrisound as MC’s?
May 1st, 2008 at 6:32 pm
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Dr. William S. McPimpslap, M.D. says:
This has to happen. Count me in for $20. If we can’t name the bowl after him as DC suggested, could we maybe find a way to make Buzz Bissinger grand marshall?
May 1st, 2008 at 6:49 pm
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the croominator says:
#6: I think this should be the official fly over for the bowl game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9g4axEXZdI&feature=related
Comment by haybeav
Haybeav…I concur…Fogelsong could use the job!
I’ll pitch in $50 for LSUFreek to do the pregame graphics for the telecast.
May 1st, 2008 at 6:52 pm
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Der Schatten says:
Just a comment regarding we #5’s.
Shit, let’s do this. I mean there are plenty of.6’s just begging to be had to make this happen: You know exactly what I’m talking about, the good ole “file reviews” (masturbating in closed office or finger-banging paralegals) and “consultation RE: Client X” (intruding thoughts of how much you hate a cocksucker when you’re sitting at home, desultorily drinking alone…like NOW!).
May 1st, 2008 at 6:54 pm
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Gary Moeller did what?! says:
My God in heaven, this would be the greatest thing ever. I can’t speak for the rest of the board but I am entirely serious in saying I would give up $20 dollars to see this happen. Someone write up a contract and file LLC papers.
/(group 5)
May 1st, 2008 at 6:59 pm
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sb says:
Der @ #40…”finger fucking paralegals” can cause unbelieveble difficulties unless they initiate the action…to be able to defend your FF of P you better be able to state without equivocation that she grabbed your love tool with salacious intent prior to any act on your part. Saw this defense work wonderfully (she had told another P she was gonna do it) but still didn’t save the associate’s marriage…the wife didn’t appreciate the fact that the lawya 1) allowed the abuse of tool, and 2) reciprocated with the digital penetration of the P’s (no pun intended) corresponding orifice…a valid point.
That said, I’m in for $20 to see the EDSBS Bowl become a reality.
May 1st, 2008 at 7:27 pm
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PSUrob says:
I’m in for an Andrew Jackson, an Abe Lincoln (not the sexual move) and 37 cocktails.
May 1st, 2008 at 7:44 pm
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EffinDane says:
On a side note, it would be interesting to see EDSBS endorse a presidential candidate. Clearly there are some strong political feelings from the staff… or maybe they are just not good at making fun of politicians.
May 1st, 2008 at 7:57 pm
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Holly says:
interesting to see EDSBS endorse a presidential candidate.
“Interesting” like a perfectly preserved dead bird on the sidewalk, and not in a good way.
Politics | Football <—– DANGER DO NOT MIX
May 1st, 2008 at 8:16 pm
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snow god says:
I’m so down for $20. Let’s get this shit done!
May 1st, 2008 at 8:53 pm
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blon57 says:
I’m definitely in for at least $20, if not more.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:03 pm
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hunglikehussain says:
@47
Thank you, Holly. Let us not destroy the Kumbaya spirit by bringing in worldly concerns.
May 1st, 2008 at 9:05 pm