The Gotham Bowl was a post-season college football bowl game that was played in New York City in 1961 and 1962. The games both years were played in Yankee Stadium. A college football game between Colorado State University and the Air Force Academy. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, communications, music, fashion, and culture. ...
As college football's glut of 28 bowl games meanders toward a conclusion, it might be appropriate to pause for a moment and remember some not-so dearly departed postseason classics.
Gotham organizers noticed the first-year success of the Liberty Bowl in Philadelphia in 1959 -- a bowl that later passed through Atlantic City before settling in Memphis -- and thought if postseason football could work there, it certainly could work in New York.
With the NFL Giants occupying Yankee Stadium, the inaugural Gotham was relegated to the Polo Grounds, an ancient, rundown structure that was home to the cash-starved Titans, forerunners of the NFL Jets.
Gotham, name for N.Y. city first used by Washington Irving and others in the Salmagundi Papers, with satirical reference to Gotham, England.
Many tales of folly have been fathered on the Gothamites, one of which is their joining hands round a thornbush to shut in a cuckoo.
Gotham, (goth´m) (KEY), name for New York City first used by Washington Irving and others in the Salmagundi Papers, with satirical reference to Gotham, England,...
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