Monday, October 1, 2007

College Football Is Still A Farce

This is the second part in an informal series I have no interest in writing, but my dislike of the collegiate pigskin system compels me to, like a hearty aspiration after a night’s drinking.

Currently, more offensive that the culture and interest in amateur helmet touch is the media masturbation over every game. Here’s some of this weekend’s headlines:

K-State Pulls Off Shocker Over Longhorns

Colorado Rallies To Stun No. 3 Oklahoma

No. 1 USC Survives Washington 27-24

Syracuse Shocks No. 18 Louisville, 38-35


Oh, the hyperbole! Leave it to the same douchebag sportswriters who earn their coin fluffing average sporting events to drop the undefeated USC from their popularity contest national rankings. It makes me think that this group of mostly no-name scribes from small market newspapers is trying to break into the movie review business with their overly dramatic description of every game.

Good teams beat bad teams with regularity, but every outcome of every game should be contested, otherwise the system is unbalanced. Are teams literally in the same league with each other? The hundreds of colleges fielding teams can’t all be in the same class. Which begs the question of their rankings - how can there be such a influx of weekly movement and upsets? Clearly then, these idiots have no idea or qualification to rate and rank teams if every week Backwater State beats Big City University. NCAA basketball is just as lame, but at least they hold a tourney and pay attention to the W-L columns. It is a joke wrapped in athletic supports that shadows the legitimate world of professional sports. And speaking of, don’t get me started on fantasy sports leagues, which in general are a whole other form of awful. Let me say though that anybody who participates in college football fantasy leagues should be bludgeoned about the head with cleats immediately. Get a life or forfeit yours.

Honestly, I think one of the best college experiences I had was showing up to UCSB to find that the football program was cut. I’m so happy to have had a college experience that was untainted by pigskin. Well, except for that heavy girl who lived in the dorm sophomore year…

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