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The
Sugar Bowl is an annual American
college football bowl game played in
the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New
Orleans, Louisiana. The Sugar Bowl
has been played annually since
January 1, 1935, and celebrated its
75th anniversary on January 2, 2009.
The Sugar Bowl, along with the
Orange Bowl and Sun Bowl, are the
second-oldest bowl games in the
country, behind the Rose Bowl (first
played 1902, played annually since
1916). The Sugar Bowl is also a
member of the Bowl Championship
Series. Presently, its official
title is the Allstate Sugar Bowl
after its current sponsor.
In
1890, Pasadena, California held its
first Tournament of Roses Parade to
showcase the city's mild weather
compared to the harsh winters in
northern cities. As one of the
organizers said: "In New York,
people are buried in snow. Here, our
flowers are blooming and our oranges
are about to bear. Let's hold a
festival to tell the world about our
paradise." In 1902, the annual
festival was enhanced by adding a
football game. The game will be
the first Sugar Bowl since 2000 and
only the sixth since World War II
without an SEC team. Both of the
SEC's BCS participants, Alabama and
LSU, will be playing in the National
Championship Game, and under current
BCS rules only two teams per
conference are eligible for BCS
bowls.
The
Mercedes-Benz Superdome, previously
known as the Louisiana Superdome and
colloquially known as the Superdome,
is a sports and exhibition arena
located in the Central Business
District of New Orleans, Louisiana,
USA. Plans were drawn up in 1967 by
the New Orleans modernist
architectural firm of Curtis and
Davis.
It is
home to the NFL's New Orleans
Saints, the NCAA's Division I-A
Tulane Green Wave football team (the
largest football stadium in
Conference USA), the State Farm
Bayou Classic, the R+L Carriers New
Orleans Bowl, the Allstate Sugar
Bowl and, every fourth year, the BCS
National Championship game. It is
one of the few facilities in the US
which can host major sporting
events, such as the Super Bowl and
the Final Four; as such, given New
Orleans' popularity as a tourist
destination, whenever it bids to
host such an event it routinely
makes the "short list" of candidates
being considered. It has been chosen
to host Super Bowl XLVII in February
.
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