Always a Good Time

Three congressmen have revived a bill designed to end the BCS:

http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/11121011/rss

Now, some may say that in the midst of an economic meltdown, the potential of hundreds of thousands of jobs to be lost in the American auto industry and elsewhere (if not millions), state governments in financial turmoil, war on two fronts (still), an increasingly fragile infrastructure, a health-care system that works as long as you are rich or don't get sick, a transfer of executive power, a ten-trillion-dollar national debt (think: your children's children's children will still be paying off that albatross), a voracious and insatiable dependence on foreign oil, a daily fear of an inevitable terrorist attack (whether a well-founded fear or not, does it really matter?)... some may say that in such a climate, our elected officials have better things to do than worry about some post-season system for playing football games. But of course, those people are wrong, for one simple reason.

It is always a good time to dismantle, annihilate, extinguish, obliterate, exterminate, or otherwise dance-on-the-grave of this monstrosity soon-to-be-formerly-known as the BCS.

All the best to congressmen Abercrombie, Simpson, and Matheson and their bipartisan effort to end this post-season monopolistic system. I have no doubt that if a special election were held today, with a single ballot measure to replace the BCS with a proper playoff system, Americans would vote for it in the high 90-percent range. Is there any issue with such lopsided support in America today?

Sure there are bigger problems, but this one is a no-brainer.