Football!

Green Bay over Seattle. It's too bad one of them had to lose. The best game of the day.

What goes around comes around. The Colts embarrassed the Broncos. Maybe they should trade names.

My vote of the teams who've played so far is for the Carolina Panthers.

The BS Championship game: Just started. Oklahoma may be the best team in the country, but strength of schedule doesn't tell you anything about how good a team is. USC and OU both lost games they shouldn't have, but USC's loss wasn't in a conference championship game.

This just has so many things wrong with it, James Carvell, the BCS hype, the few seconds of silence while we pray for the troops, not that there's anything wrong with that, except that it seems kind of phoney juxtaposed with "multiplatinum recording artist" Jessica Simpson singing the National Anthem, the Ford Truck giveaway. John Saunders begins by noting that OU, LSU and USC (Nos. 1, 2 and 3 in the BCS) "all deserve to be here, but three doesn't go into two."

I give the ABC commentators credit for facing the controversy, but the BCS logic just doesn't hold up. Terry Bowden says that all the teams in the BCS agreed to these rules at the outset, which only means that they all bought into a moneymaking scheme. Fine, but don't try to tell us that it really means anything. The analysts are telling us that prior experience playing in a dome on artificial turf could make the difference, so is the winner the real champ or just the champ in a dome on Astroturf? If the NCAA approves this system and opens it to all conferences, fine, but it still won't tell which team is the best in the nation. There are too many variables.

I think what bothers me about this is that it encourages the crazy emphasis on winning. Fans boo their own teams and act like spoiled children, yelling insults at players and demanding coaches' heads if they don't win, win, win. What happened to rooting for your team, win or lose, and good sportsmanship?

Update: It's a good game so far, but all turnovers in the first three possessions. LSU looks better in the first 9 minutes, but remember, that's in a dome on artificial turf. OU looks rattled.