The Haka Bowl was a proposed American college football game scheduled to be played in New Zealand in 1996.
| Haka Bowl | |
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| Location | New Zealand |
Named for the traditional Māori haka, and promoted by NFL linebacker Riki Ellison (who was born in New Zealand), the Haka Bowl was planned to be the first post-season bowl game to be played outside the United States in half a century, since the Bacardi Bowl in Cuba in 1946. The game matched up the third place teams from the then Pacific-10 Conference (now the Pac-12 Conference) and Western Athletic Conference (stopped playing football after the 2012–13 season).[1] The payout for participating teams was set at $1.5 million, double the NCAA's standard minimum at that time, and the minimum payout set for an international game.[1]
However, the contest, scheduled for 27 December 1996, was never played: when the Haka Bowl committee could not come up with financial guarantees, the NCAA revoked the license for the game, and the idea died.[2] It would be another decade, until the International Bowl was played in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on 6 January 2007, that a college football bowl game would be played outside the United States.
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