Fans sometimes use the phrase Toilet Bowl to refer to a football game that is particularly poor in play quality, generally college football. While this name is certainly not official, it does bear mentioning.
In professional football, particularly the National Football League, the term Draft Bowl is occasionally used for this sort of game, as the two teams are often "competing" for the first overall selection in the next year's NFL Draft, which goes to the team with the worst record in the league.
Two specific college games that are often referred to as "Toilet Bowl" games are:
The term Toilet Bowl is also jocularly used to describe a non-prestigious bowl game or as the "only bowl game (your least favorite team) will be playing in".[original research?][citation needed] It also describes a mythical bowl game in which a bowl ineligible team will supposedly be playing in at the end of the season (usually said to be located in Kohler, Wisconsin,[original research?][citation needed] home to the Kohler Company of plumbing-products fame, or at the now-defunct Shea Stadium at Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York),[original research?][citation needed] in reference to the abundance of bowl games in Division I Football Bowl Subdivision.
In the spoof movie The Comebacks, Heartland State University ends up playing in the Toilet Bowl for the South-Southwest Championship.
It is also used in parody of the ever-increasing bowl games in the BCS National Championship.