At last, some teams who can appreciate the Humanitarian Bowl

The Doc's bowl blitz sends its rigs barrelling into the Northwest for Idaho and Bowling Green in the always popular Humanitarian Bowl, where the field is blue, the elements are unforgiving and the perpetually under-attended soiree finally has itself two bowl-thirsty outfits just happy to be playing anywhere this time of year. Join us, won't you? BYOBowl. Welcome, travelers, to Boise's famous blue turf and to the Roady's Truck Stops Humanitarian Bowl, the full name of which is tragically shortened for television, with the consequences that many viewers in non-Roady's-saturated states will continue to have no idea what the company is/does. (Would the game's original sponsor, Crucial.com, have stood for this? Have the cherished marketing values of the dot-com bubble already eroded?) The Humanitarian is also the second of two bowls this week once sponsored by the mighty MicronPC company, title sponsor here from 2004-06 and permanent victim of last fall's s...