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What? What? What? And they said it couldn't be done. 30 to 24, FIU, Baby!!! WooHoo! đđđđ #FIU #UM #FIUOverUM #FIUBeatsUM #FIUvsUM #FIUFootball #UMFootball #WeDidIt #FIUAlumni (at FIU Football Field) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5QmRRRHoJH/?igshid=y8q6kaq5jtqs
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History was made in November 23, 2019. FIU 30 and UM 24. đ #pawsup #fiu #fijifiu #fiualumni #litproserv #in #history #fiufootball #aboutlastnight #miami #itsaboutthepaw https://www.instagram.com/p/B5PJ1U4htm2/?igshid=qihxymowllg4
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@davidpollack47 & @desmondhoward go up for a Jump Ball during a Home Depot/ ESPN College Gameday Flag Football Game. Once a competitor, always a competitor! - @espncfb @_espncollegegameday @espn_college_gameday @homedepot #collegegameday #collegefootballplayoff #bowlgame #orangebowl #capitaloneorangebowl #collegefootballsaturday #ncaafootball @fiu.football #fiufootball #americanfootball #sportsphoto #actionphotography #miamiherald #miamiphotographer (at Miami, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsDcBvXg6is/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dwkz2lo00d75
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Anyone catch us on College Football Saturday? FIU vs Miami! Thatâs our custom clear visor with FIU all over it! đŞđťđThanks again to @fiuequipment Orders yours today! Donât forget to follow us and like us on FB! WWW.THEHELMETGIANT.COM #nfl #cfl #afl #football #ncaafootball #collegefootball #fbs #visor #customvisor #tintedvisor #fantasyfootball #memorabilia #customhelmet #footballhelmet #helmet #thehelmetgiant #helmetgiant #fiu #fiupanthers #fiufootball #miamifootball #theu #panthersfootball https://www.instagram.com/p/BoKJ63mlVJf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1eshw38lxhecs
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If 5,000 people show up to FIUâs football game this weekend, @fiu_axo and @fijifiu will donate $2,000 to Puerto Rico đľđˇ !! Letâs band together for a great cause! #pantherprideđž #fiufootball (at Florida International University)
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#fiufootball player #warmingup #onthesidelines #badboymowers @reunionwest tropicanafield⌠https://t.co/rbTg7Y3QN1
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âWeâll have a lawn mower bring out the stage for the trophy presentationâ: The story of the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl, the new greatest bowl name in college football history
Yes, this is a real football game that is really happening.
College football bowl games are known for having ridiculous names. Weâve seen games sponsored by pizza websites, Duck Commanders, BattleFrogs, military companies, video games, and potatoes. Those have all now been topped by a bowl pairing orange lawn mowers and make-believe pirates.
In August, the St. Petersburg Bowl announced a new name: the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl. At the time, it seemed too good to be real. Itâs real.
The name is distinct, badass, and bizarre. SB Nation spoke to parties involved with the name change to tell the story of how it came about.
First, letâs talk about lawn mowers. They will be everywhere, folks.
In the week leading up to the game, both FIU and Temple participated in various events in the Tampa/St. Pete area.
âWeâre going to have some local celebrities in the area, some local sports celebrities, some local on-air personalities, and weâre going to have some lawn mower races out at Busch Gardens,â Brett Dulaney, the bowlâs executive director, said. âItâs almost like the movie The Water Boy, right?â
SHANE MCGOUGH WITH AN EPIC PERFORMANCE TO WIN THE LAWNMOWER RACE FOR @FIUFOOTBALL. THE PANTHERS STORM THE FIELD. There will be a 30 for 30 on this one day #Legendary http://pic.twitter.com/DjP3SmEZnJ
â AJ Ricketts (@AJRicketts) December 18, 2017
For another charity event called âFill the Bowl,â players from both teams will fill backpacks of food for children to take home, and the mowers will transport all the food to trucks that will deliver the backpacks.
âAt the stadium itself, there are going to be mowers everywhere, all over the place,â Dulaney said. âPeople handing out information, promotional teams, weâll have mowers out on the field â weâll have a mower bring out the stage for the trophy presentation. So weâll have lawnmowers up on the concourses, out on the field, theyâll be in television view, weâll have them on our shipwreck party deck, but weâll also have them at all of our other events.â
Howâd such a thing happen?
Bad Boy Mowers, the most badass name in the lawn mower industry (in my opinion), was looking to grow its brand. The company is based out of Batesville, Ark. Its mowers stand out thanks to bright orange paint.
Washington-Holcomb Tractor is having their Grand Opening today in Pontotoc, MS from 10am-2pm. They will be frying fish from 11am-1pm, so come by and eat some fish and check out what we have to offer!
A post shared by Bad Boy Mowers (@badboymowers) on Nov 18, 2017 at 8:19am PST
Everything you need to know about the brand this company is trying to convey: âAs a group of folks gathered around the parking lot driving our first mower, the name Bad Boy was struck when a driver jumped off and exclaimed, âthatâs a Bad Boy.ââ
The company wanted to expand its market.
âThey had other opportunities at other bowl games, but they were in the Florida market, and they were trying to grow the Florida market,â Dulaney said. âEverybody knows that if youâre a lawn mower company, grass grows year-round in Florida. So one of their goals was to find a sporting event in the state of Florida that made sense for them, and with the Tampa Bay area being one of the top-leading media markets in the country, it was a good fit for them.â
Bad Boy Mowers is proud to announce a multi-year title sponsorship of the Gasparilla Bowl, held on December 21st, in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Bowl Game, which is owned by ESPN Events, a subsidiary of ESPN, is the beneficiary of one of the best resort locations in the nation and is able to showcase St. Petersburg, its award-winning beaches, beautiful Tampa Bay, and a tropical climate annually to thousands of college football fans in person and many more fans watching the game live on ESPN in the U.S. and beyond.
A post shared by Bad Boy Mowers (@badboymowers) on Aug 23, 2017 at 9:38am PDT
There have been some equipment-sponsored bowls in the past, such as the Poulan Weed-Eater Independence Bowl (1991-97) in Shreveport, the Royal Purple (Oil) Las Vegas Bowl, the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl, and the MicronPC.com Bowl (1999-2000) in Miami. While Dulaney said the uniqueness of the companyâs name wasnât exactly a factor in choosing Bad Boy Mowers as a sponsor, it certainly helps set the bowl apart.
âWe know that a couple other bowl games have done equipment in the past,â Dulaney said. âAnd it just made a lot of sense. I think it was meeting with the group themselves and understanding that they are a marketing company, selling lawn mowers, and it was just a really good fit for both of us â theyâre trying to push their brand, weâre trying to grow our bowl game, so it made a lot of sense.â
Please keep in mind this game is played on artificial turf, not actual grass that needs mowed.
Photo by Joseph Garnett, Jr. /Getty Images
A game named after lawn mowers is silly enough, but it also involves FAKE PIRATES.
Gasparilla means a lot to the people of Tampa and St. Pete. Itâs the nickname for legendary pirate Jose Gaspar, whoâs said to have plundered across the west coast of Florida during the 18th and early 19th centuries, even though he probably didnât exist.
Numerous annual events in the area use the Gasparilla name, such as the Gasparilla Pirate Festival every January. As someone whoâs attended the event before, letâs just say there are copious amounts of alcohol involved.
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âI would say all bowl games go through growth phases, and we had been on the market for 10 years, and we had St. Pete in our name, and we wanted to be a little bit more regional,â Dulaney said. âWe wanted to be inclusive of St. Pete and Pinellas County and Hillsborough County and Manatee County in our five-county area.â
The bowl is also teaming up with the Gasparilla Music Festivalâs charity to donate used instruments to schools that donât have the means to buy them.
How long will this amazing name last?
Bowl sponsors change quite frequently, and Bad Boy Mowers and the Gasparilla Bowl have a three-year deal in place. Thereâs no guarantee that the name will last forever, but both sides are excited and hopeful about the future the partnership holds.
âI think theyâre in it for the long haul as well,â Dulaney said. âThey understand the importance of sports marketing, they understand the opportunity to partner with ESPN on the television side and ESPN events to help on the game. We understand their brand, and what theyâre trying to do and how theyâre trying to grow their dealerships in the state of Florida â and thus far, itâs been a win-win situation for everybody.â
This game has had a lot of names over the years, all of them ridiculous.
In the St. Pete Bowlâs 10 years of existence, itâs had four different sponsors, most of them strange, including a phone company, a faux-Irish sports bar, and an invisible currency.
2008: The MagicJack St. Petersburg Bowl name stuck for just a year. MagicJack is a phone company thatâs still in existence, actually!
2009-2013: In what sounded like an internet joke at the time, the Beef âOâ Brady's Bowl stuck for five years.
2014: The Bitcoin Bowl was arguably the weirdest name of them all. The name came from money that you can read articles about how to understand. There was even a BitPay mascot â and dog!
Met Mr. Bitcoin at the @BitPay Christmas dinner! #BitcoinBowl @BitcoinBowl http://pic.twitter.com/Ha9JSYFHXL
â Maria Gallippi (@BitPayMom) December 26, 2014
So this bowl has had an identity all along, it turns out.
This bowl has had some out-there names in the past, so why not stick to that as its brand?
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Honors College Night at the FIU Football game - Saturday, October 19 at 7 p.m with the DâARCE family. Lots of fun! FIU actually won. #fiufootball #fiu #fiuhonorscollege #fiuhonors #jfd3dp #ciddp #middp #in #alumni #fiualumni (at Riccardo Silva Stadium) https://www.instagram.com/p/B30shOyBWuG/?igshid=9mwgtfi8m5ij
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Here is a time lapse video of me printing some FIU football shorts for the upcoming season! #fiufootball #miami #staresgroup #customtshirt #workuniform #schooluniform
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Seven @FIUFootball Players Named to @AthlonSports Preseason All-C-USA Teams
FIU Athletics MIAMI (May 25, 2017) â Athlon Sportsâ 2017 Preseason All-Conference USA Teams were announced on Thursday and FIU football had seven players recognized. Seniors Thomas Owens and  Anthony Wint were named second-team selections, while junior Fermin Silva and senior Treyvon Williams earned third-team recognition. Senior Alex Gardner and junior Kai Absheer along withâŚ
Seven @FIUFootball Players Named to @AthlonSports Preseason All-C-USA Teams
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