PASADENA, Calif. (CNS)—While lamenting the Rose Bowl game’s move out of Pasadena in favor of Arlington, Texas, due to a COVID-19-prompted ban on fan attendance, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Dec. 21 the state refused to put lives at risk by granting an exemption to the annual Pasadena tradition. “We love the Rose Bowl,” Newsom said. “I don’t know how to best describe it. As a fifth-generation Californian, I feel like, you know, there was a Gold Rush and then there was a Rose Bowl. And so it’s been a big part of our lives—the Rose Bowl Parade, the game itself. I’m an avid sports fan, so I am eager to watch the Rose Bowl.” But he said with the Southern California region’s hospital space dwindling rapidly and available intensive care unit (ICU) space becoming scarce, the county could not grant an exemption that would have allowed a limited number of …