Rose Bowl Week has arrived in Southern California and while all college football fans know how important the game itself is to the sport — especially this year when it’s a semifinal in the College Football Playoff — many casual fans may not be aware that the Rose Bowl is accompanied by truly absurd amounts of pomp and ceremony.
There’s the Tournament of Roses, the Rose Parade, and numerous other events that happen in the week leading up to the game, including an annual visit by the two participating teams to the “Happiest Place On Earth”, Disneyland.
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Alabama head coach Nick Saban enjoys many things: football, coaching football, eating the same salad for lunch everyday, recruiting football players, watching the Weather Channel. That’s pretty much the list.
What Nick Saban does not typically enjoy is any kind of flight of fancy that distracts you from your real life, which is essentially the entire premise of Disneyland. As both a long-time Disney theme park enthusiast and Nick Saban scholar, I decided to rank the Disneyland rides I think Saban would find least tolerable.
*Note: I did decide to include Disney’s California Adventure in this list as it is what Nick Saban would consider a reasonable walking distance from Disneyland.
