There are currently 35, yes, 35 bowl games being played
post-season which began on December 21st and culminates in the BCS
National Championship game on January 6, 2014 featuring Florida State versus
Auburn.
There must be at least 27 bowls games in which both teams are embarrassed
to be seen there. Nothing says honor
like playing in a bowl game sponsored by mini corndogs and beer battered onion
rings. I refer, of course, to the Beef O’Brady’s
Bowl.
Two minutes after the game is over you can’t remember which team
won. You might as well name these
contests between mediocre athletes/teams “The We Scraped Together (Pick A
Number) Wins By Scheduling Cupcakes In Our Non-Conference Schedule Bowl.” It’s got a nice ring to it and it rolls
trippingly off the tongue to boot.
If you, like I, think that 35 bowl games is just a tad too many
you would be wrong. The BCS
commissioners and ESPN/Disney (show me the money) decided to add three
more bowl games in 2014: The
Camellia Bowl, The Miami Bowl and The Boca Raton Bowl.
Oh joy, the mediocrity is just
too underwhelming. I like football as
much as the next person but, crikey, this is overkill. I know the students, the players and their parents
care about these lackluster contests, but the rest of us just care about the
Top Ten teams.
Why can’t we just make it about
recognizing the true champions instead of giving everybody who ever played on a
field anywhere in America a cupcake trophy just for participating?
Absurd.
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