On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 15:03 +0000, Steve Searle wrote: > Around 02:56pm on Thursday, January 29, 2009 (UK time), Patrick O'Callaghan scrawled: > > > I always thought it had something to do with the trophy (viz. FA Cup, > > Ashes, etc.) but I speak from the vantage point of complete ignorance. > > From Wikipedia: Bowl game ...The term "bowl" originated from the Rose > Bowl Stadium, site of the first post-season college football games. The > Rose Bowl stadium takes its name and bowl-shaped design from the Yale > Bowl, the prototype of many football stadiums in the United States... > > > poc (not-an-American-either) Ahh! I'd looked up Rose Bowl before posting, but the Wikipedia page didn't have that info directly. Now I feel I've learned something :-) poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
