Leave Congress Alone!!!! They are hard at work on vital matters

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

House panel passes college football playoff bill

Dec 9, 2:47 PM (ET)
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER

WASHINGTON (AP) - A House subcommittee approved legislation Wednesday aimed at forcing college football to switch to a playoff system to determine its national champion, over the objections of some lawmakers who said Congress has meatier targets to tackle.

The bill, which faces steep odds, would ban the promotion of a postseason NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision game as a national championship unless it results from a playoff. The measure passed by voice vote in a House Energy and Commerce Committee subcommittee, with one audible "no," from Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga.

"With all due respect, I really think we have more important things to spend our time on," Barrow said before the vote, although he stressed he didn't like the current Bowl Championship Series, either.

The BCS selections announced last weekend pit two unbeaten teams, No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Texas, in the Jan. 7 national title game. Three other undefeated teams - TCU, Cincinnati and Boise State - will play in a BCS bowl game, but not for the championship.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_bcs_congress

[closeupready]

1. "More important things"??? Not if you are betting on the games.

n/t

[yurbud]

2. jesus, that reads just like an onion piece.

[AndyA]

3. Cue up the YouTube vid of the hysterical, crying girl... n/m

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc&feature=PlayList&p=A2C58CDFF32FA25C&index=0&playnext=1

(Warning: Coarse language in video.)

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

9. (psst... I think that's a dude)

[AndyA]

10. Fooled me!

Really? A dude? My apologies!

Dude looks like a lady... ;)

[Oregone]

4. Isn't this overstepping their bounds?

:)

But really, isn't this an NCAA matter?

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

5. I am appalled by it, serious legal-wise

How can congress outlaw someone calling a game a national championship if that's what they want to call it?

Consider... "the World Series"

I think that says it all.

[asdjrocky]

6. And they are all very, very good friends.

You know it by their speeches.

[Clio the Leo]

7. Yep, Alabama is poised to win it's 13th National Title and everyone starts to panic!

The whole bowl system was invented because we kept clobbering USC too many times in the Rose Bowl.

That didn't work either. ;)

[marshall]

8. What does it mean--"ban the promotion"?

Promotion by whom? Is Congress going to get into the business of promoting college level sports?