Tony Schiavone thinks Shreveport is “custom made from head to toe”

The Independence Bowl is (or from now on, was) one of the better run SEC bowls, at least that’s what former World Championship Wrestling play-by-play man turned Georgia Bulldogs Radio Network host, Tony Schiavone says.  He praised the city and its bowl for their hospitality and convenience (Ill assume “convenience” means no one took a shot at him from a moving car).

The city and the accommodations were good, too. Our team hotel, the Hilton, was clean, inviting and spacious. There was plenty going on as well. A handful of casinos line the Red River in Shreveport and it provided plenty of diversions.

 Generally, Shreveport not only is experienced in how to host a bowl game, but they are genuine in their want to have you in their city. Dawgs fans notice, even though A&M fans outnumbered the Georgia fans about 7-to-1.

And then the man that used to interview a bleeding Dusty Rhodes after many a “Bunkhouse Brawl” match with Terry Funk went so far as to drop this little equation on on SEC bowl tie-in snobs…Orlando<Shreveport.

The Capital One Bowl could learn a thing or two from the Independence Bowl. I have been to the New Year’s Day bowl game in Orlando twice, and it is the most overrated, overblown, disorganized mess of a game you can find. And to think the SEC sends its number two or three team there every year. The Capital One Bowl staff seems to feel that since their game is in Orlando, then they pretty much don’t have to worry about anything else. Wrong. Last season, many members of the press were not allowed access to the post game interview rooms by member of the yellow-clad “security” staff. It finally got cleared up, but when a person has a press pass and still is not allowed in the press room, then something is definitely wrong.

This is all a compelling argument and a true feather in the cap of Shreveport, until you consider that this man would routinely call the weekly run ins by Sting and Diamond Dallas Page on the NWO in the waining moments of a WCW Monday Nitro broadcast as “the greatest moment in wrestling television history” (or something thereabouts), and its right then that you realize that his ability to discern and delineate levels of  value may be a little off.