The causes of death were two chronic California diseases—greed and our winner-take-all culture.
The Rose Bowl game, an annual sports spectacle embodying cherished California conceptions of beauty and inclusion, is dead.The causes of death were two chronic California diseases — greed and our winner-take-all culture.
The Rose Bowl was known as “the granddaddy of them all” because, when first played by the University of Michigan and Stanford on January 1, 1902, it was the first postseason college football bowl game. The Rose Bowl incubated a different tradition, inspiring the creation of college football bowl games that brought together Americans from different regions. This system of bowls, headlined by the Rose Bowl, formed a college football system that produced many winners, rather than just one.
Once president, Obama even took time from other efforts to increase top-down national authority—like mass surveillance and mass deportation — to lobby publicly for a national playoff system.
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