Once again, college football's Bowl Championship Series proved itself to be about as worthless as a bobsled in Zimbabwe by denying the University of Missouri a bid in a top-tier BCS bowl game, in spite of MU (11-2) being ranked 6th in their own poll, two spots ahead of Kansas, who received an at-large bid to the Orange Bowl to play Virginia Tech. Nice to see KU (11-1) get in a major bowl for the first time since I was in Kindergarten, but let's back up the truck a second here—MU beat KU! MU's strength of schedule (26th out of 119, I believe) was far tougher than KU's (109 out of 119, or something like that) and MU had to play an extra game that KU didn't. Can you say "politics"? Even worse, another team that MU beat this season, Illinois (9-3), got a BCS bid to the Rose Bowl. Granted, Missouri gets to play on New Year's Day for the first time since the Nixon Administration in the Cotton Bowl against Arkansas (a school I'd love to see in the Big 12, btw). It should make for a good game and it's only about an eight-hour road trip for Mizzou fans to Dallas, but after being the #1 team in the nation last week, this feels like a major demotion. I also predict that Va. Tech will kick the crap out of Kansas, and I'll be doing the "Hokie Pokey" afterwards...
And in what's becoming an annual holiday tradition, this whole situation just screams out for a playoff system in college football, but the old-boy network of powers-that-be won't allow change. They claim it would ruin the tradition of the bowl games. Bullshit! Hell, they've already done that by adding the extra game for the championship. A playoff system would only make the bowl games that much more inviting to watch. Does anyone really give a rat's uvula about the Outback Bowl, anyway? The Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl? Come on, people, this is a fucking joke!
SPEAKING OF JOKES...
I watched those Va. Tech Hokies beat Boston College the other day in the ACC Champeenship Game in Jacksonville, and was floored when they showed a blimp shot of the stadium, and there couldn't have been more than 20,000 people there. Come on, J-ville, you can do better than that! Just because Florida State or Georgia Tech wasn't in this game is no excuse for such a paltry crowd. Y'all missed a damn good game, too. K.C. packs Arrowhead for the Big 12 title game (usually in cold weather), even when local favorites don't participate. Shit, Jacksonville can't even pack the place for the Jaguars—a pretty good team, btw—and they cover up several sections of seats in their stadium with tarps to create contrived "sellout" crowds.
CALL THE GUINNESS PEOPLE...
...and tell them to have their erasers ready. Tonight was the big Hannah Montana concert at the Sprint Center, and it's quite possible a world record was set for the most pre-pubescent girls wearing cheap-quality long blonde wigs ever assembled in one place at the same time! What's really funny with all the hysteria this thing has caused, a year from now it'll all be forgotten and replaced by the next crappy pre-teen sensation rip-off artist...
FIRE ON ICE
Literally! Thanks, but I really wanted a Bud Light!
SAY IT AIN'T SO!
CNN's sensation-izer machine was in rare form today, as they had some shocking footage this morning of a rare weather phenomenon—it snowed in Minnesota! Can you believe that? A whole two inches, too! Could the Yukon be next? Tune in tonight for our investigative report...
AFTER FURTHER REVIEW...
I was listening to one of my homemade '80s compilation CDs today, and came across Elton John's "Wrap Her Up" from 1986, which features George Michael guesting on vocals. Hmmm, two openly-gay men paying homage to women—what's wrong with this picture? Love Elton to death (in the loosest sense, that is), but this song wasn't one of his more stellar career moments. The album it came from, Leather Jackets, was a major dud too, and strangely enough was the only EJ studio album that did not include printed lyrics—just as well, it sucked...
HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM
Don't mean to give out free advertising here, but I have a bone to pick with one of my favorite KC eateries, the Westport Flea Market Bar & Grill. They've put out these buy-one/get-one free lunch or dinner coupons for years, but recently changed the rules to include "Maximum value $5.00". Just one little problem—there are no entrees on their menu less than five bucks! Therefore, how can anything be "free"? Awfully misleading, folks. I can also do without this new e-mail address bullshit at the bottom—what, I have to give personal info just to use a coupon, now? This K.C. institution was recently spared the wrecking ball and ignominy of being replaced with a Hooters after a major outcry from Flea customers, and this is how the owners thank us? Great burgers, but these coupons are pure hooey!THE "SHOE" IS FITTING
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1 comment:
The BCS mostly done good for a change, especially considering what they had to work with. The two teams who deserve to play for the national championship are doing so. (Although I really think Hawaii deserved a shot.) Mizzou kinda got hosed, but Kansas did only have one loss (I know they didn't have to play Oklahoma twice), and Missouri's not going to get in the Rose Bowl because they aren't in the Big Ten (although they could be if they really wanted to be). KU will beat Virginia Tech. The Hokies didn't impress me this year.
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