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Article: Not even a rout can take the bloom off the Rose Bowl
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- January 4, 2002
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Not even a rout can take the bloom off the Rose Bowl
To paraphrase the poet, a Rose Bowl is a Rose Bowl is a Rose Bowl.
It doesn't matter if it's not played on New Year's Day. Doesn't
matter if the Pac-10 and Big Ten are not in it.
Doesn't matter if it kicks off under the lights at 5:30 p.m.
instead of under the brilliant sun at the traditional 2 p.m.
Doesn't matter.
A Rose Bowl is a Rose Bowl isa Rose Bowl.
Look, Wimbledon is still The Championships no matter who makes it
through the draw to the final.
The Masters doesn't become a non-major Rental Car/Insurance
Company Open just because Tiger Woods doesn't win the green jacket.
Clothes don't make the man. And the teams don't make the Rose ...