Gotham Bowl The Gotham Bowl was a post - season college football bowl game that was played in New York City , United States , in 1961 and 1962 . The game was initially created as a fund raising attempt for the March of Dimes . The game was not a success financially : the two games that were played both lost money as few fans were willing to sit through the cold December New York weather . Plus , as it was essentially a charity game , it had little financial capital on which it could survive . 1960 . In what was supposed to be the game ' s inaugural year , the bowl hoped to invite Syracuse , but no invitation was extended when Syracuse announced immediately after its season ended that it would not accept any post - season offers . An Army - Air Force matchup fell through , so the bowl extended an offer to Oregon State . Holy Cross and Colorado turned down invitations after bowl officials mishandled the invitation process , leaving Oregon State with no opponent , forcing the bowl to postpone for another year . 1961 . The following year , the Gotham Bowl managed to find two teams to play , Baylor and Utah State , for the game at the Polo Grounds . Baylor won , 24 - 9 , in front of a sparse crowd of some 15 , 000 fans . 1962 . The 1962 edition of the Gotham Bowl , played in Yankee Stadium , was particularly tormented with poor planning and bad luck : the Miami Hurricanes were invited , but no opponent could be found . Finally , on December 4 , 1962 , just eleven days before the game , the Gotham Bowl invited Nebraska , which had just finished an 8 - 2 season . However , the day before the contest , the Cornhuskers ' team plane refused to leave the Lincoln airport until the bowl ' s check for expenditures cleared , which it did . ( Miami made a similar demand and received their $ 30 , 000 expense check up front . ) In addition , the 1962 New York City newspaper strike ensured that the Gotham Bowl would receive virtually no coverage in its own city . The contest was , however , aired on national television by ABC ' s Wide World of Sports . The weather didn ' t cooperate , either : a damp , 14 - degree day limited the official attendance to just 6 , 166 ( plus 5 , 000 tickets given away ) . Perhaps a few thousand stalwarts were actually in the stands at kickoff . The game itself was a thriller : Nebraska edged Miami , 36 - 34 , despite an MVP performance by Miami ( and future professional ) quarterback George Mira , who passed for 321 yards and a pair of touchdowns . ( It was the Cornhuskers ' first trip to the Big Apple in four decades , after beating Rutgers at the Polo Grounds 28 - 0 in 1920 . Nebraska hasn ' t played a game in New York City proper since , although they have since played in the Kickoff Classic in suburban New Jersey . ) The poor attendance ensured the 1962 Gotham Bowl would be the last one played . Pinstripe Bowl in 2010 . On September 30 , 2009 , a new bowl game to be played in Yankee Stadium in 2010 was announced at a press conference in New York . The game was set to feature the third - or fourth - place finisher in the Big East against the seventh - place team in the Big 12 , according to BCS rules . If the Big 12 could not submit a team meeting the guidelines , Notre Dame agreed to step in . The game was to be played between Christmas Day and New Year ' s Day . The name for the contest was revealed on March 9 , 2010 as the Pinstripe Bowl . The leagues and the New York Yankees created a four - year agreement , running through the 2013 season . The payout to each team was set at about two million dollars .