San Diego losing another football thing: the Poinsettia Bowl is no more Are you happy now, “too many bowls” people? We have now lost a bowl, an unfortunate casualty in the postseason cornucopia of football. The San Diego Bowl Game Association board of directors voted to put the nix the Poinsettia Bowl in favor of just having one bowl in San Diego. Attendance is an issue across all sports, and San Diego was not immune. The Poinsettia Bowl averaged announced crowds of 26,525 in the past 4 years. The bowl averaged 35,134 in its first 8 years. As the city moves forward with just one game there is the matter of where exactly that Holiday Bowl will be played. With the San Diego Chargers moving to Los Angeles, there’s now a massive venue, Qualcomm Stadium, without a primary tenet. The bowl committee has started the process of moving the game to Petco Park in 2018, where the Padres play. That means you’ll be seeing more football in baseball stadiums this year. And the likelihood of adding a bowl to replace the Poinsettia isn’t high. More bowls are good, but we may not get our wish based on an NCAA moratorium placed on adding to the postseason slate last April.
