Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Traditional Traditions

Without our traditions, life would be as shaky as...as...as a fiddler on the roof!
-Tevye

Yupperz!  Tradition.  See, The Easter Bunny hides the goodies and Santa leaves them under the tree in plain sight.  Tradition.  Chicago dyes the river green on St Patrick's Day and you eat Corned Beef.  You have fireworks on the 4th of July... you have a beer and a bratwurst at a baseball game.... the bride tosses the Bridal bouquet ... the Tooth Fairy leaves a quarter under your pillow....you don't get to screw until at least the third date.....all of the MOST important things in life have traditions.  I am not making that up!!!!  And most importantly......


Begining with the 1947 Rose Bowl game, the game's participants were established as the champions of what are now the Big Ten Conference and the Pac-10 s!

 It was the Grand Daddy....until the asshole crackers weren't happy with Tradition.  

NO, uh-uh..nowz we gotta BCS.....Bull-Crap&Shit!! Bowl Championship Series my ass!!!  Oh, it WAS  going to, once and for all, figure out who the National College football champion was.... right.  And HOW were THEY gonna to do this?  Well, the best I can figure, they had three criteria......

I. Harris Interactive Poll (1/3rd)
Replaces the AP Poll. The first poll will be released October 10, then weekly through December 5. A team's score in the Harris poll will be divided by 2,825, which is the maximum number of points any team can receive if all 113 voting members rank the same team as Number 1. Example: 2,825 / 2,825 = 1.0. If a team receives a total of 113 voting points, an average of 25th place, their BCS quotient of this component would be .04. (1.0 / 25 = 0.04).

ya, add two divide by 8 add three eggs, beat well and bake at 350! And they were not done!!!

II. Coaches Poll (1/3rd)
A team's score in the USA Today poll will be divided by 1,475, which is the maximum number of points any team can receive if all 59 voting members rank the same team as Number 1. Example: 1,475 / 1,475 = 1.0. If a team receives a total of 59 voting points, an average of 25th place, their BCS quotient of this component would be .04. (1.0 / 25 = 0.04).

Now what does that mean?  C'mon  you expect the average beer soaked  football fan will figure that out after reading pt 1?????  No goddam way.... and THEY are still not done!!!  Nope...


III. Computer rankings (1/3rd)
The computer rankings percentage is calculated by dropping the highest and lowest ranking for each team and then dividing the remaining total by 100, the maximum possible points. (Example: the 6 rankers have Team A ranked 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, and 4. Take away the 2 and 4 which leaves an average of 3rd place.
1/3...1/3....1/3  gees, Shit&whiskers!  And that is sane and rational!!!????

OK... Wisco is in the Rose Bowl.  11-1 and they kicked major ass all year....but TCU???? Shit, sounds like an illegal drug that they hand out at those Rave parties in New York or some shit you give cattle so they won't get Mad Cow disease.  I want Oregon or Stanford.... or anyone from the Pac 10.

I want some tradition in football as well as in life.  It's only fair and just. And really, when you think about it, more fun.  Next thing you know THEY  are going to move New Year's eve to the second Saturday of January following the first quarter   moon after Woody Hayes rises from the dead.


9 comments:

David Barber said...

Jimm, the third date?? You weren't trying hard enough, mate! That, or you chose the wrong girls! Hahaha!!

Sherry Peyton said...

I agree that WI deserved to go this year, but TCU? What? What has happened? The BIG TEN ain't and the Big TWELVE aint, and it's all just stupid. It ain't the Rosey Bowl without UCLA or USC is it? I mean really, really! "grump"

okjimm said...

David... mom taught me to be a gentleman. ;)

Sherry... I HATE the BCS.... it has taken ALL thee fun out of Bowl games....which will soon number 60+ pffffttttt

S.W. Anderson said...

Re: I, II and III. If you don't work for Parker Bros., you should consider applying there. :)

"I want some tradition in football as well as in life."

There is one extremely strong tradition in football: being about the money.

Randal Graves said...

Bah, I want a playoff. Champs from the top 10 FBS conferences (sorry, Sun Belt) plus 6 at-large teams equals fun, fun, fun. You can still have the bowls if you want, slap the 2nd place Pac10 and Big Ten teams (if they're not at-larges) in there.

Playoffs!

okjimm said...

SW... sadly it is about the moola. Parker Bros? Whoa... a new career Bored Games! ;)

Randalz...pffftt... it's all such a sham, it makes my head hurt. Like Hockey.

Distributorcap said...

i thought like every college, even those 0-11 go to a bowl now

and isnt every bowl like the Tositos Bowl or some other corporate name

okjimm said...

DCap,,,,, you are correct on both counts. Why next New Years I am having the Eggroll Bowl.

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