George Will, who’s more of a baseball guy, published a column on the Bowl Championship Series, and what Re. Joe Barton (R-TX) wants to do to fix it.
“Rep. Joe Barton, who considers the BCS part of the axis of evil, is incandescent, and prepared. Last January, this 13-term Republican, whose district includes Cowboys Stadium and nearly nuzzles TCU in Fort Worth, introduced the College Football Playoff Act of 2009, which says: It shall be unlawful to “promote, market, or advertise” a postseason Division I football game as a national championship game unless it is “the final game of a single elimination post-season playoff system” for which all Division I teams are, at the beginning of the season, equally eligible.
Barton believes in limited government, but not so limited that it cannot right outrageous wrongs, such as the absence of a playoff.
Bipartisanship lives: Barack Obama, who wants to fix everything — health care, the climate, the pothole on your street, college football — also wants a playoff.”
I posted this comment (I seem to be doing this a lot lately): “And a Republican wants the federal government to regulate pro football…
And they’re the ones who are going to turn the country around on its march to socialism if we only give them another chance in 2010?”
Does anyone else see how seriously weird it is the federal government is actually proposing to meddle in the organization of professional sports? Can anyone show me exactly where in the U.S. Constitution the word “sport” even appears?
We the People of the United States didn’t rise up when the fed attacked our religions and our cars, two of the things we hold most sacred in this country. But this is football!
Where’s the outrage? Where are the mobs with torches, pitchforks, and hemp ropes?
John Derbyshire is right We Are Doomed.
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