Bowl Inflation

Alrighty, I'm pushing 50 years old. I know that's not so old, but frankly, to the greater half of the American population, I might as well be their grandfather. But that's not what this is about.

When I was your age... (nobody likes to hear that, do they) college football bowl games ended on New Year's Day. That was it! I remember when it was scandalous that the Rose Bowl went to the second of January!

Today, we're in the age of the Bowl Championship Series, and dozens of other bowls have found that there's gold in them there bowls, so bowls have proliferated like nukes in the 70's over the past ten or fifteen years. But still, when it came time to get down to business, when it came time to play the majors, when it came time to play the BCS games, they had center stage and it was great. So the Rose Bowl has been played, the Sugar Bowl has been played, the Fiesta Bowl has been played, and the Orange Bowl has been played. So tonight, tonight it's the biggest game of all...

That's right, tonight it's the GoDaddy.com Bowl from Mobile, Alabama featuring Middle Tennessee State verses Miami of Ohio.

Look, I love college football, but can't we get this over with? How far do we have to go past New Year's Day with college football? What's the GoDaddy.com bowl doing in the midst of the BCS games? When will someone say enough is enough?

Oh yeah, when the goose is cut open so we can get all of the eggs out at once. I read that somewhere once before somewhere.