| 05 January 2010
Well I'm back folks. After a semi-lengthy hiatus I have returned with my insight or ridiculous notions about the sports world. I guess the snowstorms got to me and abundance of work kept me away, but I'm returning for the new year and hope to bring some content that is better then ever. So as I hype myself up for the new year I wondering why I don't care about a single college football bowl game. Did anyone know Boise State was playing TCU yesterday? Does everyone know that Boise State won and went undefeated...again? Do you know that Iowa and Georgia Tech play tonight in the Orange Bowl? I'm sure you are psyched for that one as much as I am. I think I'd rather watch Wes Welker tear his ACL and MCL again for the 1,000th time and then debate with myself if he should've been playing or not. Either way it just goes to show you how much of a piss poor job the media has done to get us excited for bowl season.
There's been absolutely no hype. None whatsoever. The only bowls so far that we've actually set a reminder in our minds to watch were the Florida game and the Texas Tech game. We only wanted to watch the Florida game to see if Urban Meyer would dehydrate on the sideline and Tebow would fly in with a Gatorade bucket to revive him. I guess we kind of wanted to see one of the best college football player's last games, but then again, he was playing Cincinnati so I really could've cared less. We learned after five minutes that the game was over and it was another sad attempt at a billed big time bowl game. 
Now the Texas Tech game was actually fun to watch. We had a back and forth matchup with actual scoring by both teams. We got to see fans hold up signs praising Mike Leach and we got to see Adam James get booed worse than Tiger Woods will at his next event. I mean I'm sure the kid did think he had a sense of entitlement and if it was anyone else then Leach probably wouldn't have got fired, but did all the fans really need to boo the kid that bad. There were so many boos that Adam James got another headache and was forced to sit in a production booth by himself, with no windows, and he couldn't get out for three hours. Boo hoo! Kids in high school who get in school suspensions face a tougher punishment then he did in a single-car garage. I love that the notion that the garage could only fit one car was so inhumane that ESPN made it seem like he was locked in Gitmo. The story got way too out of hand, but at least it made the game interesting, which is far more than any other bowl game.
I just want to know where the hype is for any of these games. There's no storylines that build up the matchups. Even Bobby Bowden's last game wasn't commercialized to let us know that it was his final game. We haven't heard anything to get us interested for any BCS game and even the National Championship seems like a dud now. I watch a fair amount of television and I peruse the Internet a great deal and there's nothing about any of these games. Can't we get a story about how Colt McCoy is praying for Mark Ingram's dad in prison or something to make me want to watch the game or root for a team? The NCAA basketball tournament has more hype for UNC versus Belmont then we do for the national championship of college football. Maybe it's just the state of college football these days without a playoff system. Maybe it's just the state of the media that sticks to the issue of not having a playoff system. I think we forget a little about what these bowl games are about. There is great tradition involved in all of them. So they may not decide a definitive national champion, but at least let us know they mean something.
