After the news broke last week that Barstool Sports had secured the rights to the Arizona Bowl, the sports media industry was set ablaze with talk about how the legendary “Barstool Touch” would affect a college football bowl game.
Luckily, in this week’s episode of Stool Scenes, Barstool Founder Dave Portnoy (El Pres) and long time producer Hank Lockwood discuss a variety of potential production plans for the Barstool Sports Arizona Bowl.
The segment begins with Lockwood approaching Portnoy and saying, “Pretty good weekend”. Portnoy responded by immediately praising the Barstool Sports Arizona Bowl’s host city; saying, “First of all, I love Tuscon…”.
The two would then transition into the potential production plans after Lockwood asks Portnoy, “What’s the movement on the Creed guy” (in reference to vocalist Scott Stapp). Portnoy responded by saying, “I have to reach out. He said he’s in and would love to do it. I’m actually going to hit him up right now.”
While Portnoy did not clarify what exactly it is that he wants “the Creed guy” to do at the game, a punchline for the site for a while has been Creed’s 2001 halftime performance at the Dallas Cowboys’ Thanksgiving game in which Stapp flew across the stage on wires. Perhaps that is what is in store for college football fans on New Year’s Eve.
The conversation would continue with details for multiple facets of the game. Portnoy said, “So we were thinking for the tailgate you would have different booths possibly, like the speed machine where you just go up to White Sox Dave who’s firing a hot dog eating stand with like Frank (Fleming), Caleb and Rone will be the sideline reporters for sure.
“We have somebody in mind that we want to do the play-by-play with me and Dan (Katz, better known to Barstool fans as Big Cat) doing color…”. Portnoy would wrap up the conversation by saying, “Obviously we have to keep the integrity of the game, but it’s going to be unique”.
The Barstool Sports Arizona Bowl is set to kickoff on December 31st, 2021 and will be exclusively available to watch on all Barstool Sports’ online channels.