Let's go on a journey to Magical Land, where every driver uses his turn signal and movies cost less than nine dollars. Magical Land is just that because common sense prevails. Who do you think their president is?
And do you know the most magical time of the year for the sports fans residing in Magical Land? Why, it's right now, heading into December, when the seeds are announced for the NCAA Division one Football Tournament, an event that stands alone at the top of the sports mountain in terms of sheer excitement.
That's right. This is another column whining about the injustices of the college football Bowl Championship Series. Fans will hear it every day for the next month and a half, just like they did last year, and the year before that, and the year before that ... blah, blah, blah. Just like they will next year.
But people keep talking about it, because the way things are run right now is so stupid.
Let's think about March Madness for a second. It's the most exciting event in college sports. We wait for it every year.
In Magical Land, March Madness is like a half birthday compared to football in December. The excitement is smothering as the top squads in the country face off in an eight-team tournament to crown a true champion. The BCS still exists in Magical Land, but it's used as a seeding system. Sure, there are still gripes from one-or two-loss teams that feel scorned, but you're always going to have bubble teams.
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See, in Magical Land they decided something the evil Powers That Be here in the real world either don't understand or don't care about - college football is important enough to deserve a true champion.
What sense does it make to have just two teams playing for a championship? The notion would be preposterous in other sports:
* The Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals would have been playing in this year's World Series. Sorry, Red Sox fans.
* The Detroit Pistons wouldn't be champs, because the Pacers would be playing instead of them. Forget that Detroit beat Indiana in the playoffs. The schedule and wins and losses are all that matter here.
* Sure, New England still would have made it to the Super Bowl, but the amazing Carolina run to meet them there would have never been an option.
* UConn still might have won it all last year, but not Syracuse the year before that, or Maryland the year before that, or pretty much any of the former basketball champs who played in the last game despite not coming into March Madness ranked in the top two.
The folks in Magical Land really know their stuff. It could only take a genius of the highest order to figure out that the college football champion should have to earn its spot in the big game by proving itself against the other contenders.
Or maybe it's not that they're geniuses. They just keep their college football away from corporate clowns who don't mind crapping on fans and 99 percent of their football teams.
Sometimes the real world can be a major drag.
