An Experiment in Scotch

We are liv­ing in what can lightly be described as try­ing times and our Sen­a­tors think it is of utmost impor­tance to hold hear­ings on the Bowl Cham­pi­onship Series. We are rep­re­sented by buf­foons and self-serving ego mani­acs, crea­tures who must insert them­selves into every con­ver­sa­tion in a vain attempt to yell louder than their neigh­bor under the false impres­sion that we, the peo­ple who elected them, expect that. The BCS is of so lit­tle con­cern right now in the minds of Amer­i­cans that it might as well not exist and yet these idiots feel com­pelled to waste tax­payer money in an attempt to make things right, what­ever that means.

In announc­ing the hear­ings, they say “The cur­rent sys­tem leaves nearly half of all the teams in col­lege foot­ball at a com­pet­i­tive dis­ad­van­tage when it comes to qual­i­fy­ing for the mil­lions of dol­lars paid out every year”. Maybe it’s because half of all teams in col­lege foot­ball suck and are right­fully dis­qual­i­fied. Don’t think for one minute that Utah, this year’s annual poster boy for killing the col­lege bowl sys­tem, didn’t make a killing in the bowl they played in. This isn’t about teams not mak­ing money in bowl games or decid­ing a national cham­pi­onship. This is just about idiots need­ing to see their names in the paper.

By all accounts, most col­lege foot­ball play­ers and coaches pre­fer the bowl sys­tem. With the excep­tion of the top tier teams, it’s a chance to go some­where nice (unless it’s Boise, who in God’s name thought there ought to be a bowl in Boise?), have a nice vaca­tion and play a lit­tle foot­ball at the end of the sea­son. On top of that, cer­ti­tude is fleet­ingly rare in life so why in the hell would we expect it in our sports? Do we really want to sub­ject col­lege ath­letes to 4 or 5 more games at the end of an already long sea­son? What about kids who get hurt in game 3 and ruin their chances of play­ing in the NFL?

This is more leg­is­la­tion for the sake of leg­is­la­tion, as if we can achieve sal­va­tion through it. We elect peo­ple to rep­re­sent us in things that mat­ter. Fix­ing the unbro­ken does not mat­ter. This is ridiculous.