Anyone who isn't aware of the vaguely creepy, Kim-Jung-Il-esque "Dear Leader" quality of Obamamania simply isn't paying close enough attention.
So if you're still not a believer, check in with the national sports media and the discussion of a college football playoff system.
I've been paying serious attention to college football for about 18 years, and in all that time, the fact that the college football championship is not always decided on the field has been a source of frustration for rabid sports fans every. single. fall.
But JUST for serious fans... that's it. No one else has ever cared.
The idea of a college football playoff system has been a conversation limited to sports talk radio and to dot-edu message board guy. The average person has just flat out never been interested. For a couple of months, some teams play some games, then we have some bowls games, a champion is announced, and that's that. Most people simply move on.
But then Barack Obama goes on 60 minutes and mentions that he'd like to see a playoff system in college football, and Ho-LEE Jesus... after 20 years of the entire concept being relegated to the backwoods of talk radio, it's suddenly the cure to everything that afflicts college sports. "Whoa whoa whoa... I know we have billions invested in this system, but Barack Obama has spoken... Barack OBAMA dammitt!!! Maybe we should consider this?"
Cracks me up.
By the way, it will never happen. The fact that we've been talking about how unfair the bowl system is since roughly two weeks before the goddamned season even started represents about 10 billion dollars of free advertising. Denholm and Long, who have a show on ESPN radio here in LA guestimated just this afternoon that in the Fall they spend roughly one hour of their entire three hour show discussing the ins-and-outs of the BCS system. You couldn't buy that kind of exposure even if you wanted to. There is no WAY the NCAA is going to give that up.
No. Way.
...Unless the cult of personality is even stronger than I think it is...
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...Damn...
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With ESPN now owning the rights to the BCS bowl games starting in 2011, all of the major bowls will now be under one roof - Disney/ABC (ABC owns the rights to the Rose Bowl). This removes one of the roadblocks to the playoff system in that those games were broadcast on different networks. Not saying it's going to happen, I'm just pointing out one piece of the puzzle.
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