Okay, maybe Wall St was worse this year. But in keeping with the total decline of America, the NCAA Bowl Championship Series has to stand out. What could have been an exciting playoff series, simply declined into a whole bunch of meaningless, boring, terrible bowl games. Are Americans that bored with their lives that they are watching this? Or worse, paying $100's of dollars to go see this?
It just shows how low standards have gone in the USA. Let's see, of the "bowl" teams, several ended up with losing records, one with an even record, and a whole bunch with 7-6 records. "Toilet Bowl" is a more appropriate name for these games. But games are now decided by the complex math calculations - you know, the kind that brought us those famous Wall St derivatives (hell, even with an engr. Ph.D, I haven't figured out what a credit derivative swap exactly is or how Oklahoma is better than Texas, or USC, or Penn St, or Utah, or...).
New Years Day used to be exciting for college football fans - all the pageantry of the 4 big bowls and all the great teams played, one after another. But today, there is only 1 decent game (Rose Bowl). I guess sponsors feel they need to spread what little excitement remains over several weeks.
And like so much in America, it didn't have to happen this way. There are 12 great college teams this year and a playoff between them (over several weeks) would have been fantastic fun and yes, even good for business. Plain logic says at least USC, Penn St, Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas Tech, Utah, and Alabama all deserve to play for #1.
But now another American tradition (New Years Day football) has been thrown overboard in our "consumer driven" society. No wonder half the country is on Prozac. Meanwhile, my TV is off and I'll write more blogs before it too is discontinued.
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