You know what really Jack’s me off this time? The BCS National Football Championship being scheduled for January 7th. Every year we find out at the beginning of December who we are going to see play in the BCS Championship bowl match, yet they make us wait more then a month to see the big game. Brutal.
I don’t know about you, but I get antsy during the two-week gap the NFL has between the AFC/NFC Championship Games and the Super Bowl. But at least I can understand the reasoning, and its only two weeks compared to a ridiculous five!
This year the wait Jack’s Me Off more than usual as I’m a big Fightin’ Irish fan. The ‘Roll Tide’ fans and Dame haters, and I suppose the Jack Stone haters who will undoubtedly come out of the woodwork, have already started with the text messages after we found out Saturday night that Notre Dame will be playing Bama for the title. My only response to the five-week gap and evil texters is that there is no sense getting hyped-up now. Control your hormones for now. Failure to do so will cause extreme boredom during weeks 2,3, and 4. Oh, and maybe don’t operate heavy machinery (I feel a warning here is appropriate).
Five weeks is such a long time to wait, here are some things that can be accomplished in less than five weeks:
– The Entire NFL Preseason
– The Entire NFL Playoffs
– The Entire MLB Playoffs
– The Entire March Madness Basketball Tournament
– Three Rounds of NHL or NBA playoffs
– An Entire University Exam Period
– The Fifa World Cup
– An Olympic Games, followed by a Paralympic Games
Here are some things that are sure to happen in the next five weeks and will take my attention away from this game:
– Christmas, Hannukah
– New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Eve Eve, and New Year’s Day
– Boxing Day Sales
– The Birthday of one Ben Kerr
– The World Junior Hockey Championships
– The entire winter break in European Football
– The release of the Hobbit (well I don’t care, … but I’m told Mike Kovacs and the geeks are excited about this).
It’s madness to make people wait five weeks (did I mention the wait is five weeks?) between determining who will be the competitors in the National Championship game and actually playing that game. Madness I tell you, and that is just one more thing that really Jacks me off.
To hear me rant about God knows what, catch my guest appearances on Last Word Radio in the show’s archives.
