A 2010 bowl game at the $1.5 billion home of the Yankees is looking all the more likely. In the New York Times, Pete Thamel reports all that’s left is signing some papers. The game would pit a seventh-place team from the Big 12 against a third- or fourth-place one from the Big East and I for one am not jumping up and down.

Yankee Stadium hosted a bowl game in 1962. It was called the Gotham Bowl, it was Miami against Nebraska and the Nebraska team plane sat on a tarmac in Lincoln until the bowl game’s check cleared. A newspaper strike that year meant there was no real coverage of the game, 6,166 fans showed up and … aren’t the reward of bowl games supposed to be warm weather?

I know the EagleBank Bowl is in Washington, DC and I know Boise hosts a cold-weather bowl, but… NFL players can play in the snow. I’ve already seen kids walk around on icy streets, up at the International Bowl. They seemed a lot happier when they were in sunny Scottsdale, for the Insight Bowl. Or maybe that was just me.

Regardless, the bowl situation IS getting out of hand. We’ve had 11 new bowls since 2002, we had 34 last year and let’s do the math on that: 68 of Division I-A’s 119 teams played in a bowl game. Nine 6-6 teams played in a bowl game and only four of the 17 7-5 teams could count all seven of those wins against other Division I-A schools. If you want everyone to play, why not add a 13th game?

Yankee Stadium’s incredible and this slate of regular season games (Army-Notre Dame next year, Army-Rutgers 2011, Army-Air Force 2012) is definitely cool. But that’s enough. Let the bowling be elsewhere.