Before I break all the bowls down for you, I have to give you more about the biggest and best college bowl of them all, and my personal favorite: The Rose Bowl!

I read the origins but I am not entirely convinced that this still isn’t a big ploy to get women to watch football. It’s roses! We are suckers for flowers!

First of all, what the heck is a bowl? Could football players not say “football playoffs” so it got grunted out “bowl?” I’ve often wondered but never really thought to question it, it is what it is. The Super Bowl. And my favorite: the Rose Bowl. That one just sounds pretty.

Turns out “bowl” came about because the first post-season college football games took place in the Rose Bowl Stadium. (Aha! Finally we know which came first the chicken or the egg! I mean the stadium or the playoff name. The Rose Bowl Stadium was named for its bowl-shape design NOT because it is the host of the Rose Bowl. The tourney is named for the stadium)

Over the last 85 years Yankee Stadium has become one of the most iconic and beloved structures in all sports history. Now we say goodbye to Baseball’s Cathedral.
My pick for the #2 Sports Moment of 2008 is The Collapse of the House that Ruth Built. The end of Yankee Stadium.
However…
I want to be very clear that I am just talking about the poignant ending and it’s significance to the history of baseball. I, in no way, support even the idea of this new stadium and think it was 1. the biggest waste of money besides all these bailouts and 2. pointless destruction of a symbolic and historic structure that meant so much to so many people.

Michael Jordan’s “Be Legendary” series for Nike is so well done that I get chills when I watch them. It’s hard to pick which one is my favorite but I think I’m going with the fourth one in the series because that is the one that made me move this pick up from #4 to #2 on the Top Sports Commercial Countdown:

I am very happy to bring you my #3 Pick for Top Sports Moments of 2008:

Kansas wins the NCAA Basketball Tournament

because you have no idea how long I’ve waited for that to happen. I love their program so much that I will actually admit to owning and wearing my Kansas Jayhawk jersey that I bought in the late 1990’s when Steve Woodberry was on the team. And it figures the one year I wasn’t able to do my brackets and pick them to win, they won!

I’ve been a fan of Kansas basketball for as long as I can remember (well, okay since high school anyway). And I’ve heard the chant for years. I used to think it was “Rock Jock Jayhawk” because, what the hell is “Rock Chalk” supposed to mean? Well today I found out. It’s actually a really fascinating story.

Oh. Whoops. You may have no idea what I’m talking about. “Rock, Chalk Jayhawk KU” is actually the world famous chanting heard at college games at Kansas University. It is deafening:

My pick for the #3 spot on my Top Sports Commercials Countdown are my fave Superbowl XLII commercials! There is one that stands out as my absolute favorite but I did find two other good runners-up that I thought I would share!

My Personal Favorite:

Bud-wies-er. The Clydesdales Series

The ad series follow the story of some of the most prestigious and famous horses in the country, the Budweiser Clydesdales

The NBA Finals and the Boston Celtics are my pick for #4 and not because my dad is making me put it on here! It truly was amazing!
The Celtic’s entire playoff series was exciting to watch (believe me, I was forced to watch every single game even when other good shows were on tv!). Both Round 1 against the Atlanta Hawks and Round 2 against the Cleveland Cavaliers went to a nail-biting 7 games. And it took 6 grueling games against the Detriot Pistons for the C’s to win the Eastern Conference Championships to even get to the Finals.

Ok holidays are over. Lots to talk about today at work. What Santa brought, how much food you ate, what family fight happened, who got drunk at the family party…and who is going to the NFL playoffs….

Because of the hugenss of #1 I’m not going to give a huge list today. #1 will be dominating all conversations tomorrow, and actually for the whole month! But here are the top things you need to know to survive the sports football dominated world this Monday morning.

My Pick for the #4 spot in my Top Sports Commercial Countdown is

Visa: Go World.

The Olymics have always provided us with so many compelling and captivating moments and the one featured in Visa’s commercial was especially poignant. Visa, with the narration from Morgan Freeman, recounted the story of Derek Redmond and his heartbreaking finish in the 1992 Olympics