Fiesta Bowl

As a volunteer for one of Phoenix's signature events, I periodically write for the organization's website and game-day program.

Football Feature: 2003 Fiesta Bowl - Fiesta BowlFour years after the first-ever Bowl Championship Series National Championship was held at the Fiesta Bowl, the fifth National Championship in Bowl history featured perennial powers Miami and Ohio State in an epic contest that ranks among the top championship games ever played.

Football Feature: Peter Tom Willis - Fiesta BowlThirteen Heisman Trophy winners have played in the Fiesta Bowl. Nine were quarterbacks.

Football Feature: Looking Back at Notre Dame's Fiesta Bowl National Championship - Fiesta BowlBy Richard Urban

Charity Spotlight: Guaranteed Rate Bowl Field Donation - Fiesta BowlOnly 48 hours after the TCU and Cal football teams finished an overtime battle in the Cactus Bowl, 80,000 square feet of turf had been taken up from the stadium floor.

The Origin of the Yellow Jacket - Fiesta BowlLong before there was a Fiesta Bowl, the college football postseason scene was a conspicuously color-coded rainbow of selection committee sports coats that a Cotton Bowl representative once described as making bowl representatives "look like a bunch of shoe salesmen, but I don't want to make any shoe salesmen mad."

Volunteer Spotlight: Jeff Smith, Frank Snell Lifetime Achievement Award - Fiesta BowlJeff Smith arrived at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess resort thinking that he had been invited to a dinner Fiesta Bowl Board of Directors Chairman Patrick Barkley was hosting for about 30 members of his leadership group because Smith had been a sales coach last year.

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