The Bowl Games Series
Five sports. Five bowls. One obsession.
Five sports, five cities: stories behind ChiliStation's Bowl Games tees and the chili that belongs in the stands.
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Five sports, five cities, five tees — each design matches its story.
In 1869, Cincinnati launched professional baseball. Fifty years later, it launched American chili culture. The story behind the HOME PLATE tee.
Pro hockey arrived in Detroit in 1926. Greek-run chili diners arrived a decade earlier. Here's how they built a city's February identity together.
The full story of how a Canadian PE instructor invented basketball in a Springfield YMCA gym in December 1891 — and why it stuck.
On Dec. 28, 1975, a Dallas QB threw a 50-yard prayer in the playoffs. "Hail Mary" entered football forever.
In 1996 Kansas City joined America's new pro soccer league. How the city built one of the country's loudest supporter cultures.