Senior Bowl Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
The Senior Bowl is an all-star college football exhibition game usually played either at or towards the end of the college football season in January. Held annually since 1950, first in Jacksonville, Florida, and a year later in Mobile, Alabama (where it has been held since), the Senior Bowl is also a showcase for potential future NFL stars, some that go on to the NFL Draft itself.
Two teams, representing the North and the South, are coached by select coaching staff from two NFL teams.
The week-long practice that precedes the game is attended by key NFL personnel (including coaches, general managers, and scouts), who oversee the players as possible prospects for pro football. At one point the Senior Bowl was the first chance its participants had openly to receive pay for participation in an athletic event. This was one reason that participation was limited to seniors whose eligibility for further participation in collegiate football had expired, and the game was also their first exposure to the slightly different professional rules. Players who wished to participate in collegiate spring sports had to avoid participation in the Senior Bowl. The significance of all of this has waned in recent years as there has been some lessening of the former strict separation of professional and amateur athletes.
For many decades, the Senior Bowl was the final game of the college football season, but in recent years has been the next-to-the-last game (followed the following week by either the Hula Bowl or the Gridiron Classic).
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According to the Senior Bowl web site, NFC and AFC all-stars played the games between 1991-1993.Scores of Senior Bowls
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
(*) indicates the first game was played at Jacksonville, Florida.