Apparently, college football's Bowl Championship Series is so unfair that it's illegal. Kind of. The truth is, congress is taking a look at how the NCAA determines it's champion.
All fans of sports and Andy Rooney remember last November, when the current President of the United States told CBS news program "60 Minutes" that he thought the current BCS system should be revamped, saying he would prefer an eight team playoff.
Honestly, I'm as against the BCS as anyone. However the government getting involved in any sport is one step closer to the government controlling everything. When sports are mixed with politics, bad stuff happens. Stuff like this.
"It's like communism," Rep. Joe Barton of Texas said of the situation ""meaning that it will be very difficult for any bowl, including the current BCS bowls, which are among the oldest and most established in the game's history, to survive."
"You can't fix it," he continued. Barton also suggested that the "C" should be dropped from the name because it doesn't produce the real champion. "Call it the 'BS' system."
Haha. I've never heard that one before.
The BCS isn't perfect; no sport's post-season is. Wildcard teams in the NFL like Pittsburgh and the New York Giants have proven that any team, no matter what their regular season was like, could get hot and win it all. This could include a team that didn't even make the playoffs.
I simply think the fact that just because college football's way of crowning a champion might be a little less acurate than others is no reason to go all the way to capital hill the same way the likes of Barry Bonds and Mark McGuire did.
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