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And practice bowling?
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Very funny.
 I don't know when exactly the term "bowl" was coined to describe an outdoor arena, but that's what happened.__________________
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Going to eat your cornflakes out of it?
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Those would be some pretty big cornflakes.
 It might interest you to know that back in the 1930's there was an outdoor arena called the Madison Square Garden Bowl in the borough of Queens, New York City. It got torn down in World War II, and the modern day Madison Square Garden is an indoor arena in Manhattan. __________________
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As long as it wasn't called Madision Square Garden Bowel.
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No, but it was often called the "Jinx Bowl," because no boxing title holder ever successfully defended his title there.__________________
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Imagine if it had been jinx bowel.
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Interesting. I always wondered by it was called Bowl. So weird.
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Be weirder if it was called "bowel."
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yeah, and probably more fun
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 The word “bowl" was often used in the USA to describe outdoor arenas due to their bowl-shaped design. Originally only college championship games were called “bowl games." The Rose Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Sugar Bowl, etc., because of all the different college divisions. Professional gridiron football never had a bowl game, just the NFL Championship game. Then a rival league called the AFL was created in 1960. In 1966 the two leagues got the idea to have a special “battle of champions" game between the AFL and NFL champions. Back then the Green Bay Packers, led by legendary coach Vince Lombardi and Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr, were the most dominant team in the NFL. After winning the NFL Championship game in 1967, the Packers played the winner of the AFL Championship game, the Kansas City Chiefs, in what was originally called the AFL-NFL Championship game. The Packers went on to win the game, and after some sportscasters playfully referred to the game as the “super bowl," in reference to college championship games, the name stuck. By the time the third such game was played in 1969, it was officially named “Super Bowl III," and it's been that way ever since.  __________________
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Super Bowel III
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That was back in 1969.
The current Super Bowl is Super Bowl LII.__________________
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Lots of bowels.
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