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	<title>Extracurriculars &#187; bowl games</title>
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		<title>Bowling for Bacardi in La Habaña</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetSports attorney Jason Belzer&#8217;s dug up this gem about some long-lost bowl games that might give present-day corporate naming-rights mockers pause.
Before there was an International Bowl, and long before an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to stage a Haka Bowl in New Zealand, a very famous rum manufacturer was able to persuade American college lads to head [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tw_button" style=""><a href="http://twitter.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wendyparker.org%2F2013%2F01%2Fbowling-for-bacardi-in-la-habana%2F&amp;text=Bowling%20for%20Bacardi%20in%20La%20Haba%C3%B1a&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wendyparker.org%2F2013%2F01%2Fbowling-for-bacardi-in-la-habana%2F" class="twitter-share-button"  style="width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('http://www.wendyparker.org/wp-content/plugins/wp-tweet-button/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;" onclick="urchinTracker('/outgoing/twitter.com/share?url=http_3A_2F_2Fwww.wendyparker.org_2F2013_2F01_2Fbowling-for-bacardi-in-la-habana_2F_amp_text=Bowling_20for_20Bacardi_20in_20La_20Haba_C3_B1a_amp_related=_amp_lang=en_amp_count=horizontal_amp_counturl=http_3A_2F_2Fwww.wendyparker.org_2F2013_2F01_2Fbowling-for-bacardi-in-la-habana_2F&amp;referer=');">Tweet</a></div><p>Sports attorney Jason Belzer&#8217;s dug up <a href="http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/2012/12/the-stories-behind-10-defunct-bowl-games-including-the-gotham-bowl-the-cigar-bowl-and-the-refrigerator-bowl/" target="_blank" onclick="urchinTracker('/outgoing/www.midwestsportsfans.com/2012/12/the-stories-behind-10-defunct-bowl-games-including-the-gotham-bowl-the-cigar-bowl-and-the-refrigerator-bowl/?referer=');"><strong>this gem</strong></a> about some long-lost bowl games that might give present-day corporate naming-rights mockers pause.</p>
<p>Before there was an International Bowl, and long before an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to stage a Haka Bowl in New Zealand, a very famous rum manufacturer was able to persuade American college lads to head to Cuba for a scrap against local sides.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wendyparker.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Picture-14.png"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5910" title="Picture 1" src="http://www.wendyparker.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Picture-14-150x150.png" alt="Picture 1" width="150" height="150" /></a>The Bacardi Bowl, staged seven times between 1907 and 1946, was also known as the Rhumba Bowl, for fairly self-evident reasons.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not as obscure a tale as it might seem, as <em>Deadspin</em>&#8217;s Jack Dickey <a href="http://deadspin.com/5870086/remembering-the-glory-days-of-the-bacardi-bowl-in-havana" target="_blank" onclick="urchinTracker('/outgoing/deadspin.com/5870086/remembering-the-glory-days-of-the-bacardi-bowl-in-havana?referer=');"><strong>blogged around this time last year</strong></a>, interviewing<em> NPR&#8217;</em>s Mike Pesca, who had done a segment.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a blog <a href="http://bacardibowl.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" onclick="urchinTracker('/outgoing/bacardibowl.blogspot.com/?referer=');"><strong>lovingly dedicated</strong></a> to keeping the story of the Bacardi Bowl fresh and alive<strong>, </strong>along with <a href="https://twitter.com/bacardi_bowl" target="_blank" onclick="urchinTracker('/outgoing/twitter.com/bacardi_bowl?referer=');"><strong>a companion Twitter account</strong></a>.</p>
<p>But the throwback T-shirt for the 1937 Auburn-Villanova Bacardi Bowl (above), the only one of the games that was an All-American affair, <a href="http://www.fansedge.com/1937-Bacardi-Bowl-Throwback-T-Shirt-_-831347994_PD.html" target="_blank" onclick="urchinTracker('/outgoing/www.fansedge.com/1937-Bacardi-Bowl-Throwback-T-Shirt-_-831347994_PD.html?referer=');"><strong>no longer appears to be for sale</strong></a>.</p>
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