Article: Not even a rout can take the bloom off the Rose Bowl

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 ...

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