The Irrelevant Bowl

[Laxtonto 12080]

 

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Inaugural Irrelevant Bowl Announced For 2024 Celebrating Two Teams Suffering Through Dismal Seasons

Hall of Fame Promoter Roy Englebrecht Believes New Bowl Game Matching Up College Football’s Bottom Feeders Will Be Huge Hit Similar To “Mr. Irrelevant” Title

 

 

Newport Beach, Calif. (January 10, 2023) – With the bowl season now complete, it’s time to stop celebrating mediocrity and .500 teams winning games against other 6-6 teams. It’s time for the Irrelevant Bowl!

 

Newport Beach’s Roy Englebrecht, an innovator and Hall of Fame promoter, has come up with a concept that college football coaches, players, media and fans are sure to latch on to, just like they’ve done with the title of “Mr. Irrelevant – awarded at the end of the NFL Draft and celebrating the last player selected.

 

“No polls, no rankings, no controversy, just two winless or near winless teams looking for redemption and one elusive win,” said Englebrecht, who hopes to launch the inaugural Irrelevant Bowl in 2024. “Knowing that the NCAA has become more flexible with the number of team’s wins to qualify for a bowl, I will petition the NCAA asking them to grant a waiver in 2024 so that two teams would be eligible to play in the inaugural Irrelevant Bowl.”

 

It all started four decades earlier with the naming of the first “Mr. Irrelevant” – a title no college football player wanted. Dayton wide receiver Kelvin Kirk was the 487th pick in the 1976 NFL Draft and dubbed “Mr. Irrelevant” after being selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yet what former NFL receiver Paul Salata began all those years ago has become a phenomenon for players who may have started at the bottom, but who were celebrated for making it to the big show.

 

If there had been an Irrelevant Bowl played this past December, it would have “featured” 2-10 Vanderbilt facing 1-11 Akron. The Irrelevant Bowl will provide six figure payouts to two teams, along with team travel, team loading lodging, and team meals in a host city to be determined. And should either of the last two teams picked pass on playing, the next lowest team would be invited.

 

To be considered as a host city for this monumental event, a city would place a bid in the first quarter of 2024 covering lodging and meals for the two teams, all stadium expenses, and a $1,000,000 site fee. The host city would retain all event revenue including ticket sales, concessions sales, and parking revenue.

 

[HornOnTheBayou 8922]

[SHOOTER12 8809]

Pleasanton High School, Eagle Stadium, Pleasanton Texas. Capacity-5000.

Edited January 10 by SHOOTER12

[Laxtonto 12080]

Funny enough, I would probably watch it just to see how bad those teams really are.

Might be more apt named the "Train wreck" Bowl, but how can it be any worse than some of those really bad 6-6 vs 6-6 bowl games?

[BabaYaga 15298]

[TOR 5577]

This is like Bumfights for college football.

[YGIFS 19450]

How do they define "worst"?  Just the two FBS teams with the lowest winning percentage?  Surely, there's somebody worse than a 2-10 Vandy team, no?  

[The Dog 44051]

This needs to happen. 

 

Edited January 10 by The Dog

[LateAughtsHorn 588]

I'd watch a gimmick game like this over whatever mid-december snoozer they normally broadcast. 

[WBT 20572]

Stupid and teams wouldn't show up

[Blotto 23509]

The listed reasons for opt-outs should be amusing:

DNP - Getting an oil change

DNP - BOGO steak sandwich at  local titter

DNP - overslept

 

[conVINCEd 21469]

Can we mix and match?  I feel like Iowa’s offense should be involved.  Maybe pair them with the defense FSU rolled out against UGA.

[Vic Mackey 47037]

Can't be any worse than a random MAC game during the week or half of these shitty bowl games.

[markstanco 12577]

9 minutes ago, WBT said:

Stupid and teams wouldn't show up

Depends on how much money is available to the players and team. 

[LonghornBreeder 550]

5 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

Can we mix and match?  I feel like Iowa’s offense should be involved.  Maybe pair them with the defense FSU rolled out against UGA.

How was FSU's offense with their third string quarterback any different than Iowa's?

[dcar00 14208]

9 minutes ago, WBT said:

Stupid and teams wouldn't show up

this.  no coach or school is going to want to highlight how shitty their team is.

you could pick the last 2 out(5-7 teams) and play it at the home stadium but then it isn't really a gimmick.

[conVINCEd 21469]

2 minutes ago, LonghornBreeder said:

How was FSU's offense with their third string quarterback any different than Iowa's?

I just like making fun of Iowa”s offense. I didn’t give it a lot of thought.

[Texas Wahoo 3395]

51 minutes ago, Laxtonto said:

“No polls, no rankings, no controversy, just two winless or near winless teams looking for redemption and one elusive win,” said Englebrecht, who hopes to launch the inaugural Irrelevant Bowl in 2024. “Knowing that the NCAA has become more flexible with the number of team’s wins to qualify for a bowl, I will petition the NCAA asking them to grant a waiver in 2024 so that two teams would be eligible to play in the inaugural Irrelevant Bowl.”

I do not see the NCAA agreeing to make two 1-2 win teams eligible for post-season play when they have been such sticklers for the rules about 5-7 teams.

[dcar00 14208]

1 minute ago, Texas Wahoo said:

I do not see the NCAA agreeing to make two 1-2 win teams eligible for post-season play when they have been such sticklers for the rules about 5-7 teams.

They should take the worst 12 and have a playoff.

[LonghornBreeder 550]

42 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

How do they define "worst"?  Just the two FBS teams with the lowest winning percentage?  Surely, there's somebody worse than a 2-10 Vandy team, no?  

This was my first thought exactly. Maybe they could match the worst team (by in-conference record) from the 2 worst conferences (by cross-conference record).

[conVINCEd 21469]

1 minute ago, dcar00 said:

They should take the worst 12 and have a playoff.

Hire a couple of standup comedians to announce, stick it on Netflix or Amazon, and let them say whatever they want to.  No filter at all.

[EastTexan 662]

6 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

They should take the worst 12 and have a playoff.

and the losers move forward. final loser wins or loses. wtf

[ClubWhatever 12144]

[Jersey Man10 3528]

First game can be at Kyle Field.

[TexEx15 17528]

They need to find a way to get enough sponsor money to make their bowl swag the best of all the bowls. I can see the tagline now. “It pays to be a loser!”

[The Dog 44051]

https://www.irrelevantbowl.com

[EastTexan 662]

12 minutes ago, Jersey Man10 said:

First game can be at Kyle Field.

no home field advantages allowed

[Underdog 28633]

Why not have Texas/Bama play a Consolation Bowl similar to what the NFL had before the merger. 

[Brothahorn 10087]

I just like making fun of Iowa”s offense. I didn’t give it a lot of thought.

Much like Brian

[satyanash 14485]

 

[dcar00 14208]

20 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Why not have Texas/Bama play a Consolation Bowl similar to what the NFL had before the merger. 

Can you imagine the opt outs for that?  They can have Texas and Bama play in the Indeed Preferred Walk On Bowl

[dcar00 14208]

59 minutes ago, EastTexan said:

and the losers move forward. final loser wins or loses. wtf

yeah, the punishment for sucking means you have to play more.  Kind of like running stairs after practice.

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5388]

1 hour ago, Jersey Man10 said:

First game can be at Kyle Field.

Jerry World seems more fitting

[YGIFS 19450]

Kyle Rittenhouse could emcee!

[TrashMaster G 17557]

This is so stupid.

[Valmy77 13226]

1 hour ago, dcar00 said:

They should take the worst 12 and have a playoff.

Only the loser advances to the next round.

[markstanco 12577]

Just now, Valmy77 said:

Only the loser advances to the next round.

"Go ahead #77, get in there at QB" 

[Horn Dogg 3897]

They would have to compete with about 30 other existing irrelevant bowl games.

[WelfareBuysMyWeed 5388]

13 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Only the loser advances to the next round.

Like that south park episode with little league where the other team gets so good they can make themselves look bad on purpose.

[Rockethorn1978 6077]

2 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

Can't be any worse than a random MAC game during the week or half of these shitty bowl games.

You clearly don’t feeeeellllll the MACtion

[tokamak 6430]

Weird shit like this and the Pop Tarts Bowl may be the only viable future for bowls. They get more and more irrelevant every year with opt outs, transfers, and now the 12-team playoff. Get 4 teams all named Wildcats and play a mini-tournament. Combine the rosters of Tulane, Lafayette, and Monroe and see if they can beat LSU.

Why does it have to be so straight-faced? Just turn them into minor league baseball games.

[Beau Vine 54228]

It's time again to review Beau Vine's perpetually proposed NCAA Bowl Policy!

Rule #1: Each team is allowed to play one postseason game, plus playoff games.

Rule #2: That's it.   Teams can accept bids from existing bowl games, or they can schedule postseason games by themselves.  If UTRGV and Nebraska decide they want to play, they can play in Lincoln, they can play in the Valley, or they can sell the rights to the game to a sponsor and play in a neutral site, eg, the Sonic Tater Tot Bowl from Jenks High School stadium in Jenks, OK.  

[Fastbreak 3985]

They need to find a way to get enough sponsor money to make their bowl swag the best of all the bowls. I can see the tagline now. “It pays to be a loser!”

Does Mar-a-Lago have a stadium?

[YGIFS 19450]

Yes but it costs between $18mm and $1.8bn to play there.  

[ousux 5597]

Lol, this isn't a bad idea. Kinda like a cripple fight...people will watch

[BurntEyes 5990]

4 hours ago, LonghornBreeder said:

How was FSU's offense with their third string quarterback any different than Iowa's?

Narrator: It wasn't, and with all the opt outs their defense was substantial worse.

[BurntEyes 5990]

I'm gonna own I didn't watch many if the .500 team bowls.

But.. I think I'd probably turn this on just to point and laugh, because schadenfreude.

[Rimbo 25934]

5 hours ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

 

4 hours ago, The Dog said:

https://www.irrelevantbowl.com

"It's Time Has Come In 2024"

[tokamak 6430]

26 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

"It's Time Has Come In 2024"

It is time has come, obviously

Edited January 10 by tokamak

[YGIFS 19450]

It's time has come!  How we can play when the bowls are burning?