Miscellaneous Debris #1002: Bacon Bowl
Jul. 25th, 2013 06:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23Des Moines has done a lot of fun events around zombies and bacon. I think that's cool, but I hope that five years from now, it doesn't feel like we built a Chuck Norris Fact Museum.
Nothing zombie related here, but at least if the internets bacon trend dies down, this is still a logical place to promote pork.
Des Moines is home of the Blue Ribbon Bacon Fest, an event that has put itself at the top of the list for similar festivals. In an attempt to promote the fest and promote the local arena football team, a pseudo-rvialry game was born.
The Bacon Bowl.
Behold.
The event started with an afternoon tailgate which as you would guess involved music, cheerleaders and a lot of bacon.
As far as the game went, the Iowa Barnstormers led by QB JJ Raterink and WRs Marco Thomas and Jesse Schmidt got behind early (as the Barnstormers are out of contention, rookie QB Brian Reader got the start) and never caught up.
Your intrepid blogger in fact was in attendance. I usually get to a barnstormers game once a year, and by coincidence more than anything saw the inaugural Bacon Bowl- the game which ended with the winning team going home with five pounds of bacon (uncooked) for each player.
Oh, and Bacon fell from the sky.
In a gimmick that immediately puts itself in the Parthenon of the Hot Dog gun and the T-shirt toss, bacon parachuted down from the rafters. I didn't catch any, but I was in the cheap seats, so I did make the picture above (as provide by the local CBS station, KCCI).
Nothing zombie related here, but at least if the internets bacon trend dies down, this is still a logical place to promote pork.
Des Moines is home of the Blue Ribbon Bacon Fest, an event that has put itself at the top of the list for similar festivals. In an attempt to promote the fest and promote the local arena football team, a pseudo-rvialry game was born.
The Bacon Bowl.
Behold.
The event started with an afternoon tailgate which as you would guess involved music, cheerleaders and a lot of bacon.
As far as the game went, the Iowa Barnstormers led by QB JJ Raterink and WRs Marco Thomas and Jesse Schmidt got behind early (as the Barnstormers are out of contention, rookie QB Brian Reader got the start) and never caught up.
Your intrepid blogger in fact was in attendance. I usually get to a barnstormers game once a year, and by coincidence more than anything saw the inaugural Bacon Bowl- the game which ended with the winning team going home with five pounds of bacon (uncooked) for each player.
Oh, and Bacon fell from the sky.
In a gimmick that immediately puts itself in the Parthenon of the Hot Dog gun and the T-shirt toss, bacon parachuted down from the rafters. I didn't catch any, but I was in the cheap seats, so I did make the picture above (as provide by the local CBS station, KCCI).
