While in the Phoenix area on vacation, I was looking for some sporting things to do. The Diamondbacks were out of town and I wasn't interested in seeing any preseason football things. On one of the maps of the area, I noticed the Fiesta Bowl Museum in Scottsdale. I had never heard of the museum before. I decided that I would find time to visit the museum.
The Fiesta Bowl Museum is a small museum. It is not something you should plan a entire afternoon to see. It takes about fifteen to thirty minutes to walk around. There are two main rooms, one in the front of the facility and one in the back.
The room in the front is a welcoming room. There is a receptionist desk on the right in the front of the room. A few couches are placed in the room, while TVs show sports shows and the most recent Fiesta Bowl match-up. The main highlights of the room are the replica trophies. In one cabinet, they had the trophies of the Walter Camp Award, Outland Trophy, Jim Thorpe Award, Dick Butkus Award. Davey O'Brien Award, Doak Walter Award, Bronko Nagurski Trophy, Fred Biletnikoff Award, and the Rotary Lombardi Award. The two biggest trophies in the room are the Fiesta Bowl Trophy and the Coaches Trophy. Those two trophies are the highlights of the museum.
The room in the back is set up like a conference room with tables and chairs. On the walls are helmets for all the FBS teams. Two helmets are placed facing each other due to their weekly match-up in college football. Around the room are little rooms that have small exhibits. One of the rooms is on Fiesta Bowl game and it's results, another on the Fiesta Bowl parade, and so on. They also have a Heisman Trophy and an Eddie Johnson Coach of the Year Award for visitors to look at and take pictures.
My favorite part about the museum is it's simplicity. You are not going to be overwhelmed with flare and unnecessary information. Everything in the museum is interesting and is relevant to the Fiesta Bowl. There are a lot of cool artifacts, including the helmets showing the week's match-ups and the jersey's of previous Fiesta Bowl contestants.
My favorite part about the museum is it's simplicity. You are not going to be overwhelmed with flare and unnecessary information. Everything in the museum is interesting and is relevant to the Fiesta Bowl. There are a lot of cool artifacts, including the helmets showing the week's match-ups and the jersey's of previous Fiesta Bowl contestants.
The Fiesta Bowl Museum is a cool place to visit. Every football fan, especially a college football fan, should find a way to visit. I think the best part of the museum is that it is not going to take for ever to get through. It is must if you have time to fill in the Phoenix area.
