The Bowl Games Series
Six sports. Six bowls. One obsession.
Long-form stories on the cities and traditions behind ChiliStation’s Bowl Games tees — baseball, hockey, basketball, football, soccer, and the chili that belongs in the stands. A sixth story is on deck — these five are live now.
Shop Bowl Games tees →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 December 28, 1975, a Dallas quarterback threw a 50-yard prayer in the final seconds of a playoff game. The phrase "Hail Mary" entered football forever.
In 1996, Kansas City joined ten founding teams in America's new top-flight professional soccer league. Here's how the city built one of the country's loudest supporter cultures.