THE EYES OF TEXAS …
great football game!
No matter what happens from here on out, it was good to be a Texas and/or Big 12 fan at the end of the Fiesta Bowl. It was by far the best bowl game of the season so far and one of the better games I’ve ever watched. Great football teams come from behind, they find a way to win, and Colt McCoy and Texas and Mack Brown passed the test against a quality Big 10 team.
BECAUSE I SAID SO, THAT'S WHY!!!
Of course, this now means that no matter what happens on Thursday, both Texas and Utah are going to claim to be national champions AND Texas will continue to believe that Oklahoma “stole” the Big 12 Title and the chance to play Florida and actually BE national champs rather than just claim it. If Oklahoma loses to Florida, the hue and cry will be heard ’round the world. Horns will weep in the street and lynch mobs will be formed. There will be an attempt by a small group of Texans to secede from the union. For being so proud of their so-big state, they can cry like babies over football. Of course, Sooners are never, ever, ever crybabies and that 15-15 tie didn’t phase me a bit. We’re just cool. We have “Sooner Magic”, which means that we find a way to come back. Except when we don’t. Please Please Please Coach Stoops win this one, OK? I’ll get excited about college basketball around the time of the Big 12 tournament and maybe not until the sweet 16 in March. Oh! Before I forget, there’s also USC that thinks they have a claim to the title of national champions. They won the Pac 10 and beat Penn State in the Rose Bowl and really looked dominating.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Sometime during my marriage, my wife must have bought “my-fault” insurance.
WHAT? NO POLITICS?
The truth is that after the November elections, I’d been following politics closely for my whole life and started being interested in the presidential election in the fall of 2007 and built up to the point that I was honest to goodness reading political stuff on the internet from 8 to 12 hours every single day. I know that the story about Bill Richardson bowing out is important, as is the appointment of Leon Panetta to head CIA, but I just can’t get too excited about it. It’s not that I think anybody much cares about my political pronouncements, but I’ll talk and write about it again and more and to the distraction of some, but I’m just not feeling it right now.
BLOGGING BUDDIES
MCARP
MCARP complained in a comment that my picture looked like it was out of GQ and that his looked like it was taken at St. Anthony’s ER. He must think this one is better because he says it’s the one he uses on MyFaceCrack. He admits, however, that the photo has received at least one unkind review. The guy is a Photoshop Ace, I can’t figure out why he just doesn’t make himself look like he wants to look. Maybe put his face on a golden Bhudda being embraced by the multi-armed Shiva in an Edwardian-style piece of the two in a punt on the Thames. “Forbidden Kiss”. Or maybe lengthen his for-real beard into chin piece and long mustache Chinese elder style. I wish I could do that Photoshop stuff. Maybe someday.
Flibbertigibbit
Over on Nina’s blog, she’s changed her avatar to the one here. I think it’s only fair if she’s going to be so difficult about it all and be on hiatus and mess with the minds clueless men, this absolutely should be her avatar so that we might get the hint. I will say that any man who sees that and goes for it is likely to be a very competitive fellow, the kind of guy who looks for a challenge. We’ll have to get her to recite: “What part of ‘NO!’ did you not understand?”. Go with it, Flibbi, I think it’ll work for you.
A cool cat with blue eyes. Call him Sinatra
I’m miffed, Muffy. He’s supposed to sit at the window and let me in and out as I please and instead he put on hard shoes and a tie and left me outside all day where I couldn’t check every 15 minutes to see if he’d put out wet food. When he got home, I told him and showed him the food bowl several times and he ignored me. Tonight, when he’s asleep, I’m going to poo in his shoes. Time for a nap! Bye!
There is no national championship in college football. College football is a sissy sport played by sissies, no better than figure skating or gymnastics where judges decide the outcome. So call it what you will, but it’s a mythical national championship (MNC) and will continue to lose interest amongst fans until there’s a playoff, like there is in the lower divisions of college football and all other collegiate sports.
Here’s my proposal to solve this mess:
The top 24 teams make the national collegiate football championship. Of those, the top 16 play one weekend to decide who gets to play the top eight teams (conference champions who get a bye) in two weeks. You eliminate the 12th regular season game played now and the conference championships. How you pick the top 24 is irrelevant because those teams have to win it on the field to be national champs and winning your conference still means something because you get a bye if you do.
The next 32 teams play in a college football invitational, a second lower level championship. This allows you to have nearly as many teams involved in post season play as in the current bowl system in a second tier championship where it’s win or go home.
The TV audiences for both tournaments would be huge, especially when compared to the current sissy system. Do you really care who plays in the Humanitarian Bowl? You would if the game determined if your team went home or who your team played next week. As I read somewhere, there were more games played on New Years Eve than on New Years Day. I no longer care about any of the bowls that my team is not in, including whatever the thing OU and Florida are playing in on Thursday.
Just like in the national basketball tournaments, the polls and computer rankings would be mostly irrelevant. Sure, you’d have to do some seeding, but the same deal would be that your team has to win or go home. You’d be playing for the national championship and not the Fiesta Bowl championship as Texas was last night. Does anyone really care who the Holiday Bowl champion was? A team with a couple of losses could get hot and win it all.
For most teams, this wouldn’t add any more games to the schedule than they have now. Assuming OU and Florida advanced, this would add two more games to the schedule they’ve played this year, albeit with a tougher schedule at the end. That would have given them something to do between Thanksgiving and the second week in January. You OU fans aren’t afraid to play tougher opponents at the end are you?
Talk amongst yourselves while I sort this out with President Obama…
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I don’t want to be on hiatus anymore.
And I am not difficult. I am quite pleasant and open actually.
The key is merely lost to my panties and I need help finding it!
@Nina.
That may be more true than you think.