The Detroit Lions want to host a bowl game!

Some of the greatest minds of our generation have claimed there are too many college football bowl games, or too many that are meaningless.

Rubbish! They clearly are magnificent. Why else would Little Rock, Ark., consider hosting one? 

The NFL's Detroit Lions want in on the bowl business, even though they are reportedly a professional football organization. ESPN.com's ultra-connected Brett McMurphy tweeted Monday that the Lions were prepared to start a new bowl in 2014 that would eliminate Detroit's Little Caesars Pizza Bowl, and would match a Big Ten team against an ACC club.

The Little Caesars Pizza Bowl's contract is up at the end of the 2013 season. It currently is a Big Ten/Mid-American Conference matchup, though the Big Ten usually doesn't have enough bowl-eligible teams to send one to Detroit. Central Michigan played Western Kentucky in the LCP Bowl last year. Big Ten teams have only appeared in the game three times.

Click here for today's Detroit Free Press story on the matter.

It has long been a dream of mine to cover a bowl game in Detroit on the day after Christmas. Maybe the Lions can help make that come true.

In unrelated news, the Military Bowl is moving to Annapolis, Md. Plan accordingly.

Here is McMurphy's story for ESPN.com on the Detroit bowl concept.