Comments on: Congress demands NCAA football playoff system

By: Poll – Americans looking for a NCAA Football playoff | Radio Vice Online

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:35:33 +0000

[...] this month, I wrote about Congress getting involved and demanding the NCAA put some sort of playoff system in place for [...]

By: OleBamaDude

OleBamaDude — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:59:19 +0000

Let’s be clear on one thing at least. The legislation does not change anything–except one thing–it stops the BCS from calling their game a “championship” game. Now, this makes complete sense to me. Many people call the BCS game a game for the “mythical” national championship anyway. So Congress desires to put the BCS fat cats in their place. I’m all for that. It is an insult every year to some team and its fans that some other team is declared the “champion” when in fact there is some question remaining on the point. The only way to crown a true “champion” in any sport is to do it the old fashioned way–through a championship tournament. Short of that, call it the BCS Bowl game, the “Big Game” or anything they want–just not the “Championship” game with all the insulting implications.

By: pauldow

pauldow — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:25:16 +0000

Ahhh. Remember when people complained about having congress controlled by one party, and the executive branch controlled by another? Gridlock was supposed to be such a terrible thing. I miss those days. At least this NCAA thing might keep congress from spending a few billion $.
It’s obviously way past time to remove the sports anti-trust exemption for sports companies. At least they should get rid of the taxpayer supported non-profit status for the multi-billion dollar NCAA.