With a blog titled
Political Clown Parade you’d think I would post something relating to the scuzzy
world of politics. Not today. Nope. Not
happening.
I spent my Saturday
slopped up on the couch with tasty beverages and the customary snackeries
required to watch the final weekend of college football before Selection Day.
As
I said in my post yesterday, I was summoning the favor of the football gods
for some help getting my beloved Alabama Crimson Tide into the College Football
Playoffs. I didn’t get any help from the
Sooners and the outcome of the Clemson/Miami game would have made no
difference.
Glimmers of hope began
to overtake the crowd I had over for my slightly famous football couch-gating
party. The Jawja Bulldawgs beat the
tiger crap out of Auburn. War Eagle was
plucked clean. Nary a feather remains on
the hapless foul. I feel sorry for the
wretched beast. The weather is turning
colder. It must be embarrassing to be
naked in public.
Whatever juju I had
working carried into the Buckeyes/Badgers battle in the Big 10 Championship
Game. Urb’s boys had a “struggle win”
against Bucky Badger. Perfect. I was rooting for them despite my loathing
for Meyer and those Buckeyes.
I spent the morning
cleaning up the tornado left from the couch-gate party and settled down to
watch ESPN’s coverage of the Selection Committee’s final rankings. The program began at noon, but the so-called “sports
experts” babbled endlessly killing time until the Committee released the
rankings.
Finally, 30 minutes
later the rankings were tediously revealed one by one. Clemson, Oklahoma, Georgia and…Ala-by-God-bama!
That last one sent
crybaby Kirk Herbstreit into a bit of a tizzy and he walked off the ESPN
set. The crew laughed their fannies off
and viewers saw an empty chair where Herbstreit had been sitting. He couldn’t believe his alma mater had been
snubbed. It was like watching a Saturday
Night Live skit, only funnier.
Kirk Herbstreit was so shocked by the committee putting Alabama in he actually walked off set pic.twitter.com/U8cJTRobo6— The Spun (@TheSpun) December 3, 2017
The cavalcade of sports
pundits repeatedly insisted Bama’s resumé was "deeply, deeply
flawed..." Oh really? It’s not as
flawed as Clemson who lost to Syracuse or Ohio State who lost 55-24 to a 7-5
Iowa State.
"The losses
matter," Herbstreit said. “But when you lose the way they did, it sent a
message to the committee that they just couldn't forgive. It was like an anchor
tied around that program that brought them down. It's incredible to think, with
Wisconsin at No. 6, that we're going to have two teams in the top 10 that Ohio
State beat. Probably better than anything Alabama had, and Ohio State is a
conference champ. Yet still, the people in that room just liked Alabama better
as a football team. That, with the loss to Iowa kind of balanced out Ohio
State's resumé."
"This is the
unfortunate era of college football that we're in, where we're splitting
hairs," Herbstreit said. "Winning the Big Ten is a hell of an
accomplishment, but they didn't jump off the screen like they did in 2014, when
they just blew Wisconsin out in the Big Ten title game and you were like, 'How
are you going to leave them out?' And Saturday's game didn't feel like
that and I think that's what hurt them."
No shit Sherlock.
Every Ohio State fan right now, including me #BuckeyeNation pic.twitter.com/JgUuJLuIuc— Luke Shetler (@lukeshetler) December 3, 2017
UPDATE: I’m including this
Funny Maine video of “How Bama Fans Watched The 2017 Conference Championships”
because, well it’s FUNNY. I love how he
says, “We coming to New Orleans, Louisi-BAMA."
