Rose Bowl moves to Texas due to California's COVID-19 restrictions

[exco]

Official: Rose Bowl moves to Texas and AT&T Stadium due to California's COVID-19 restrictions (msn.com)

Is the Rose Parade going to be moved to Texas?

 

[bogey21]

This means that there will be some 20,000+ fans in the stands in Arlington which is 20,000 more than would have been at Pasadena...

George

 

[SmithOp]

Official: Rose Bowl moves to Texas and AT&T Stadium due to California's COVID-19 restrictions (msn.com)

Is the Rose Parade going to be moved to Texas?

that would be one heck of a long parade route from the specialized warehouses where the floats are built.


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[Snazzylass]

Official: Rose Bowl moves to Texas and AT&T Stadium due to California's COVID-19 restrictions (msn.com)

Is the Rose Parade going to be moved to Texas?

The Parade was cancelled awhile back. It takes many months of planning to build the floats. It was determined to be too risky as these floats are built by volunteers spending extended time together inside.

 

[bbodb1]

Now if Notre Dame will be left out in the cold, a perfect ending!

 

[bnoble]

If the sun isn't setting over the Arroyo Seco at halftime, it's not the Rose Bowl. It's just another football game.

 

[Luanne]

Sure hope they're not planning to still call it the Rose Bowl.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Sure hope they're not planning to still call it the Rose Bowl.

Why? All they need do is make it a Yellow Rose.

 

[Luanne]

Why? All they need do is make it a Yellow Rose.

Because Texas and Yellow Rose have none of the history of the Rose Bowl.

 

[Rolltydr]

Because Texas and Yellow Rose have none of the history of the Rose Bowl.

And isn’t as beautiful a setting! I understand why they did it and fully agree with the decision. However, if this were a normal year and we would be attending, DW and I would be very disappointed. The Rose Bowl and Pasadena are beautiful. Jerryworld is a very nice stadium with great amenities but it sits in the middle of.... nothing.

 

[Luanne]

And isn’t as beautiful a setting! I understand why they did it and fully agree with the decision. However, if this were a normal year and we would be attending, DW and I would be very disappointed. The Rose Bowl and Pasadena are beautiful. Jerryworld is a very nice stadium with great amenities but it sits in the middle of.... nothing.

I never attended the Rose Bowl game but did go to the parade many years when I was a child. My grandparents lived on Orange Grove Blvd and we would camp out at their house. Made it nice to have access to a bathroom and a warm place to sleep.

 

[Rolltydr]

I never attended the Rose Bowl game but did go to the parade many years when I was a child. My grandparents lived on Orange Grove Blvd and we would camp out at their house. Made it nice to have access to a bathroom and a warm place to sleep.

We’ve been to Pasadena twice. Alabama played UCLA during the regular season in 1999 or 2000 and then played Texas in the championship game there in 2010. We spent a week in the area both times and loved it.

 

[bbodb1]

Why? All they need do is make it a Yellow Rose.

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer!

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

that would be one heck of a long parade route from the specialized warehouses where the floats are built.

The Parade was cancelled awhile back. It takes many months of planning to build the floats. It was determined to be too risky as these floats are built by volunteers spending extended time together inside.

DW lived in La Cañada a couple of years when she was in high school. She did some work creating the floats.

If the sun isn't setting over the Arroyo Seco at halftime, it's not the Rose Bowl. It's just another football game.

I grew up in Minnesota in the 1960s. I've always thought that the Rose Bowl was one of the big factors in the migration to California that occurred during that time. In the Upper Midwest, it would be New Years Day, and everyone would see the Rose Parade, followed by the Rose Bowl. While we shivering in the snow and cold, we would see people walking around in shorts and shirt sleeves. There would be the obligatory shots of the Rose Bowl, with the snow-capped San Gabriel Mountains in the background. The vegetation would be lush, with vegetation in bloom. If you had relatives in California, as we did, they would often send a gift basket of fresh citrus (navel oranges and grapefruit) as a Christmas present.

And, logically, you would wonder what the heck am I doing here instead of there?

 

[Snazzylass]

I never attended the Rose Bowl game but did go to the parade many years when I was a child. My grandparents lived on Orange Grove Blvd and we would camp out at their house. Made it nice to have access to a bathroom and a warm place to sleep.

I took my boys years ago to the parade. An aunty mentioned she had tickets and I thought sounded like fun. We stayed with my bachelor brother who was hosting a NYE party. That was tough getting my kids to bed, but totally worth it!

Got up at the crack of dawn (or maybe before) to drive across town on the empty freeway. Seeing those floats in person is THE BEST!
It's an event I'd do again

 

[Luanne]

I took my boys years ago to the parade. An aunty mentioned she had tickets and I thought sounded like fun. We stayed with my bachelor brother who was hosting a NYE party. That was tough getting my kids to bed, but totally worth it!

Got up at the crack of dawn (or maybe before) to drive across town on the empty freeway. Seeing those floats in person is THE BEST!
It's an event I'd do again

I grew up in the 50's and 60's. Back then our parents would let us roam the street and see all of the floats up close at night. I'm sure we got some sleep, but I'm also pretty sure we'd take advantage of that freedom. My grandparents were in a two bedroom apartment at that time (I think). It was usually our family of 4 and at least one or two other families camping out. We'd have sleeping bags all over the place. I doubt anyone got a really good night's sleep. We probably did this every year until my grandparents moved from that apartment.

 

[bbodb1]

If Keith Jackson isn't on the call, it's not the Rose Bowl. It's just another football game.

FIFY!

 

[silentg]

We went to the Rose Parade a few years ago. It was the most organized event we ever saw. We had great seats we drove from Las Vegas to Pasadena with a stop overnight halfway. It was really fun.
would do it again if it was in Pasadena. We didn’t go to the football game.

 

[klpca]

We were always up on New Years morning to watch the parade (more than once I remember eating stale potato chips that had been leftover from my parents NYE parties when I was young, lol). It was a tradition that I then passed on to my kids. In 2000 and 2006 my kids were able to march in the parade (daughter #1 in 2000 and #2 &#3 in 2006) with their high school band. It poured buckets in 2006 so much that their pant legs were sudsy from dry cleaning soap? after marching 7 miles in the rain
. Those were some great memories. This year it will be just another day. Oh well.

 

[Luanne]

One of my favorite stories about the parade is one my bff told me. Her high school boyfriend, who was in band, was one of many students used to pad the USC marching band.