Oklahoma Senator Humiliated by Florida Senator and I Don't Have a Boner
Last week, I bet Dennis that if the Giants beat the Eagles, he would supply me with 800 Philly cheesesteaks. If the Eagles won, I would have to write a mildly amusing blog post about whatever mildly amusing bet the mildly competent Senators from the two states represented in the Orange Bowl made on this year's national championship game:
Forget all those inaugural concerts. The most pressing musical issue in the nation's capital is whether a stone-face senator from Oklahoma will hit the high notes in "Rocket Man" to pay off a college football bet.
Republican Sen. Tom Coburn is slated to serenade Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida with his very own rendition of Elton John's 1970s classic Wednesday afternoon.
Coburn owes Nelson because the Florida Gators defeated the Oklahoma Sooners 24-14 in last week's BCS title game. Nelson chose "Rocket Man" because he is a former astronaut who flew on the space shuttle Columbia in the 1980s.
If Oklahoma had won, Nelson would have had to sing the title song from the musical "Oklahoma!" It also happens to be the official state song.
If Plaxico Burress hadn't shot himself in the leg, you wouldn't have had to know about that.
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Actually I'm not much of a college sports fan. I'm a Denver Bronco's fan with two degrees from the U.
The Broncos sucked this year and will continue to suck for the foreseeable future. Two of my alternate pro football teams (Colts and Giants) have been eliminated in the playoffs thus far and the third (Arizona) probably won't survive this weekend.
Basically, I'm running out of things rage about. The BCS and bowl system in general are easy targets.
But I would argue that the bowl system in general exists because it generates a huge pot of money, not because of rankings or student athletes. If it didn't there wouldn't be 34 different bowl games if only 5 of them “really matter”. What the BCS does is protect the 5 that "really matter" and their slice of the money pie from everyone else.
In sports, pro or college, its always about the money.
not that i'm a fan of the gators, by any means. but:
you might consider margins of victory too. and besides, florida's one loss was a squeaker. i'm not saying utah wasn't a great team; i was surprised how they smacked down alabama. i just think there's some merit to the division between BCS and non-BCS conferences; there's only a few non-BCS-conference that have recently come into the spotlight for matching BCS-conference-teams' ability – the rest of the non-BCS-conference teams still suck.
as annoyingly convoluted and dissatisfying as the BCS may be, i think that it's a better fit for a college playing atmosphere (read: amateur, and [technically] a secondary aspect to the players being students) than a one-overall-winner/everybody-else-gets-shut-out playoff system.
(let's get into a completely off-topic flame war, shall we?)
Correction: Florida had 4 wins over Top 25 teams.
Not a lot of difference between Florida's and Utah's strength of schedule. Utah 4 wins over Top 25 teams, two in the top 10. Florida 5 wins over Top 25 teams, two in the top 10. Florida lost to a team that ended up ranked #14 on the AP. Utah lost to … nobody.
Bottom line: If the Bowl System is truly wonderful, every league in every sport would want one. Until there is a playoff, who is #1 will always be disputed.
yeah, in the mountain west conference. whoop de freaking do.
Both should have to wear Utah Red. 13-0 bitches!