1) I have no reason to be part of the whole Michigan/Ohio State rivalry, but I've been watching the game as long as I can remember. Both Reverend Dave and I have always rooted for Michigan. Even though I pretty much hate Ohio State (for no particular reason), that was a helluva game on Saturday. I'm ok with a rematch in the Fiesta Bowl unless USC wins out.
2) Had Bo died during any other week of the year, it would've been a minor footnote with just a bit of national coverage. Since he passed the morning before the game, it was all-Bo for almost 24 hours on the national news.
3) I thought Alabama would put up a bigger fight against Auburn. They usually do.
4) If I were a huge Boise State fan, I'd be afraid of ever getting an HD tv. My head might asplode...
5) Kentucky is bowl eligible. Their football team.
6) Georgia can't beat Kentucky or Vanderbilt, but they roll over Auburn. What the hell?
7) I have the ultimate solution to the BCS mess. It isn't a plus-one game or an eight-team playoff. It's a four-team playoff. Let the BCS or whoever figure out who the top four teams are--I'd rather the chatter be about who got left out in fifth place than who got left out in third, and that nonsense would only last for a day or two. Out of the 'Big Four' bowls, Orange, Fiesta, Sugar, and Rose, here's how they could still keep them legit under my plan:
All of the numerous other bowls will remain the same--basically post-season exhibition games.
Of the big four bowls, they rotate each year with being two of them hosting the playoff games, and one is the national championship game.
The bowl that is left out gets the highest-tier 'leftover' game, UNLESS it is the Rose Bowl. The Rose Bowl will host the National Championship every fourth year. The rest of the time it goes back to being the Big-10 champs versus the Pac-10 champs, like it always was.
It would eliminate that having almost a whole month with no college football, adding two HUGE games during the holiday week between Christmas and New Years.
A four-game playoff would also eliminate the remote possibilities of coaches pulling their starters during the final game of the year, like the pros do. If eight teams were going to the playoffs, the top two or three teams would be tempted to rest their best players. This way, nobody can take a chance on coasting during the last week and the traditional rivalry games will remain the last game on the schedules, instead of being moved up earlier in the year, which I would imagine would happen if the playoffs were expanded to eight teams.
In a perfect world, all the major conferences would have 12 teams, and a conference championship would have to be played at the end of the season, like in the SEC and Big XII. Only conference champions would be eligible for one of the four playoff spots. But we'd have to work on that. Notre Dame would have to affiliate itself with somebody and subject itself to the conference rules, and the Pac 10 would have to become the 12-Pac (BYU? UNLV? I dunno...)
8) I spent way too much time thinking about #7.
9) I cannot pick NFL games to save my life. I've made VERY few NFL bets this season, and haven't cashed a ticket since like week three or four. I picked Chicago a few weeks ago when they decided to shiat the bed against Miami. I picked the Rams four times, they lost all four games outright. I made one bet yesterday, Indy -1 over the Cowboys. We all know how that turned out.
10) I saw a few of those Rainbow Six: Vegas commercials for the new video game while watching ESPN. The only thing missing from all the cool graphics are the thousands of people standing around getting in my way whenever I try to walk anywhere in this town. Some designer didn't do his homework... Also, that other video game commercial, Gears of War or whatever--I couldn't get that song that they use out of my head, and it only took me about four days to figure out that it was a remake of Tears for Fears' Mad World.
11) Speaking of ESPN, they heap more collective man-love on Donovan McNabb than I heap upon Jack Bauer. Sorry that his knee is jacked up, but since I hate the Eagles, I'm cool with the fact that they'll miss the playoffs this year.
12) Jake Plummer, put a fork in him. He'll be carrying the clipboard in someplace like Buffalo or Detroit next year. I hate to see one of my ASU homies stinkin' up the joint, but he just can't get it done.
13) I think we're looking at a San Diego/Chicago Super Bowl, now that an alien has taken over Marty Schottenheimer's body and has convinced him to throw the ball, even after they get a lead (last two weeks notwithstanding).
14) Does anybody else find it mildly amusing watching Eli Manning and the Giants struggle a bit? Go Jags!
15) Speaking of the Mannings--if you had to drink a shot every time you saw a Peyton Manning commercial on Sunday, you'd be dead of alcohol poisoning by 5pm. Same thing with those god-awful 'This is my country' Chevy commercials.
16) Even though my Rams completely suck and have no chance in the NFC west, nothing makes me happier than seeing the Seahawks get their asses handed to them by the 49ers.
17) Ok, so the Patriots beat a pretty crummy Packers team who was playing without Favre for most of the game. Suddenly all the east-coast talking heads are all saying that the Patriots Are Back!
18) I keep waiting for the Ravens to fall apart, but they haven't. Damn.
19) Yep, Bill Simmons is right--I think Pink is a tranny. Everytime I see her singing the Sunday night game intro on NBC, all I hear is Austin Powers in my head saying She's a MAN, baby... Yeah!
20) LaDanian Thomlinson... Holy shiat. The guy is unbelievable. If he stays healthy he's going to own a lot of records before he's done. And nothing is more enjoyable than seeing him stick it to the Broncos. Ok, maybe seeing him stick it to the Raiders, but everyone does that...
21) Tonight we finally find out what Save the Cheerleader, Save the World means. I thought it was just an ultra-cool tagline up to this point.
22) I'm not an NBA fan by any stretch of the imagination, but I really get a kick out of those "The LeBrons" commercials from Nike. I think a commercial featuring 'Old Wise' watching contemporary hip-hop videos, a la Mystery Science Theatre, would be a comedy gold mine.
23) Hey, no more chatter about whether or not Indy will go undefeated. Now we can start debating just which playoff game they will lose.
24) I still think Miller Lite tastes like piss, but I enjoy the Man Law commercials. Nothing cracks me up like the old dude saying I had scurvy once...
25) I just thought of something... NBC isn't broadcasting a game on Thursday, right?!?!?!? One on Fox, one on CBS, and the night game on the NFL Network, right? That means NO John Madden mumbling about turduckens and all that other stupid shiat we usually have to listen to every Thanksgiving. Woo hoo!!!
26) About that new Lexus that can parallel park itself... Do we really need that? I mean, everyone had already forgotten how to drive once automatic transmissions became available on the cheap, but this has disaster written all over it... How about inventing a car that puts the makeup on the chicks for them when they drive, or one that automatically keeps the car at the same speed as the surrounding traffic when the driver is on the phone. Either that, or it disengages the transmission as soon as the driver dials his cell phone. That would probably be more useful. Also, do I really need a "portable, everyday GPS solution" in my car? Do that many people really get lost while driving around town? Of course, this is coming from somebody who insisted that text messaging was technology moving backwards, so what do I know?
27) For those of you unable to watch Around the Horn during the day, some of the best comedy on TV is J.A. Adande's occasional impersonation of Ron Jaworski. Even the host, Stat Boy, can't help but laugh.
28) I don't think Slash would ever drive a Volkswagen. And me, I'd rather plug my Les Paul into a Marshall stack instead of a Jetta.
29) How about them Arizona Cardinals getting their first win since week one? I truly feel sorry for Matt Leinart signing that long contract. You know he wants to get the hell outta there. Of course the win came against an inept Detroit team, as the Cardinals usually couldn't score with a fistful of hundies in a Pahrump brothel.
30) We had a few Bond girls strutting around serving martinis in the casino this weekend. It almost made me want to cough up nine bucks to go see Casino Royale. But I didn't.
Mikey
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