I'm sure lots of people saw the BCS Championship game last night as Auburn and Oregon battled it out to a disappointing Auburn win. However, as disappointed as I am, it was still the better team that won. Why? Because they won. I'm not a fan of Auburn or Cam Newton as I bought into whatever the media told me about him and his dad and whatever underhanded dealings were going on there. But its not so much them that is frustrating, but the way in which it was handled. And to totally expect that four or five years from now that Cam will be stripped of the Heisman and Auburn stripped of this title is a pretty foregone conclusion. And in five years will anyone remember that Terell Pryor got a tattoo for free...probably not. He broke the rules and has received his punishment which in comparison to the Newtons, is pretty unfair. Will people continue to break the rules? Absolutely. But you have to punish them to keep some semblance of control over sports.
When Clint Eastwood was mayor of Carmel, they had a bad intersection that was the site of a lot of accidents because people just flew right on through. Clint's solution: Put up a stop sign and maybe then, they'll at least slow down.
People will always break the rules, but when the powers that be find out, they have to punish and keep that ever-growing gray area called control.
Congratulations to Auburn as it was a good game, however tarnished it may have been. I love college football as they play their hearts out every game to get to the NFL and hopefully make a living doing this. It would be interesting to see how many people would be involved with it if there wasn't the big pay day...it would be simply because they love to play.
These people exist and you can see them right here in Pasadena. They are professional civil servants and they will be playing at the Rose Bowl this Spring.
They are the LA Heat (http://www.losangelesheat.org/index.php) And not to be confused with over paid, over-hyped people from Miami.
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We hope to see you all there.
