I am not a sports fan. While I enjoy watching a game here or there and even have preferred teams, I rarely sit down to watch a game. Usually it is a case of flipping through the channels and stumbling upon a game that I can watch and more than likely only because nothing better caught my eye. I am even married to a man that for the most part can take it or leave it as far as main stream sports are concerned. Now, any alternative, endurance or obscure sporting event he is all over. I have become a fan by default of such sports as cycling, rugby, triathlons and curling, to name a few.
With all this being said, there are just a few things that I think should remain the same as far as sports are concerned. There should always be a March Madness in college basketball. The idea that an obscure team from a college no one has ever heard of has as much of a chance to advance as a big 10 school is what fuels our hopes and dreams. The Olympics should be a huge deal. We should stop as a nation and applaud the athletes that represent all that is good in our country, the freedom to peruse your passion regardless of what it is even if it does involve pushing a disk on a piece of ice while sweeping a broom. Baseball must have the 7th inning stretch because wiout it when would we have the opportunity to bail out without being obvious. And college football bowl games should not change names.
As I sit here this New Year's Day I am faced with the delima of which bowl game to watch. The Kraft Fight Huunger Bowl looks interesting, but since I am starting a diet today I think it would be in my best interest to avoid reminders of both food and hunger. This also wipes out the Chik-Fil-A Bowl for obvious reasons. The Ticketcity.com bowl could be interesting if I had any idea what Ticketcity.com is or where the game could possibly be held. Is there a Ticketcity.com in the USA? Did a city struggling to balance their budget finally sell out the enire city to make a buck?
What is this crap? What happened to the Sugar, Cotton and Orange Bowls? Nice simple names that you had an idea of where the game was going to be played? Now the names of the games are after thoughts as the corporate sponsors either throw their names in front of the bowl name or obliterate the old name all together. The only game that I can swallow is the Rose Bowl. It is still the Rose Bowl. It is generously brought to us by Vizio. Thank you Vizio for not raping the sacred institution of the 123rd Rose Bowl by shoving your name in front of the roses. It will be the only bowl game I will watch this year because it looks good, smells great and isn't a corporate whore.
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