Jordan Palmer has nothing to do with the BCS
11 Nov 2006I’m watching the UTEP-UAB game, and Jordan Palmer just made an amazing play. He dropped back to pass, felt the rush, broke two tackles, scrambled to his left (he’s right-handed) and completed a first down pass - on third down. Of course, the drive ended in a touchdown with a minute left to go in the first half. Yet the announcers for ESPN2 continued to debate the National Championship problem caused by the otherwise mediocre Rutgers Scarlet Knights. They didn’t even acknowledge the play. This has to be Reason #837 why I prefer professional football over its college counterpart: A great play was just shoved out of the way by controversy over the BCS - and the entire discussion had absolutely nothing to do with the game being shown! I was under the impression that I was watching a broadcast of a football game, not an opinion show about the Bogus College Sport. Soon, I will post about many of the reasons I see college football as inferior. Until then, be informed that a large portion of it has to do with the subjectivity of crowning a champion, and about how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer while we sit around and talk about the rich. That’s a metaphor - but it really happened.
