Sheraton Hawaii Bowl

Just like "It's A Wonderful Life" and the non-stop showing of "A Christmas Story" it's the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl from beautiful Honolulu.  This is always a  one quarter and done game because it's Christmas Eve.  Why they don't play this game on Christmas Day is beyond me.  Put it on at 7pm when everyone is tired of kids, gifts, relatives and egg nog.

Watched the first quarter between Hawaii and Tulsa - what a mess and no indication of what was to come.  The quarterback of the No. 24 Hawaii Warriors threw two picks and the punter had a kick go 8 yards from his own end zone.  10-0 and we switched to "Love Actually" on DVD, a Christmas timed movie my wife loves with every under 50 English actor on the planet.  (It's actually a pretty good movie if you've never seen it.)

Evidently when we turned the movie on both team's defenses went in to watch a movie as well.  The final was 62-35 Tulsa over Hawaii.  Read the recap and evidently Tulsa scored with a touchdown pass with a minute to go.  I guess Santa can deliver the Tulsa coach some sportsmanship for Christmas.


Game Notes:


-Tulsa is a pretty good team that puts up a lot of points.  The win was their 10th of the season and will probably get them into the post season Top 25. 


-Hawaii had six turnovers in the first half.  Not sure how you do that at this point of the season.  The Warriors record is 3-3 in their home bowl game.


-Bowl game break today.  Sunday night, the Little Caesars Bowl from lovely Detroit, Michigan with Florida International taking on Toledo.  Hey, who doesn't want to be in Detroit the day after Christmas?