So Alabama won the 2011 BCS National Championship game in another pretty awful game against LSU. And make no mistake, this was a pretty awful game. You know why the NFL protects quarterbacks and wide receivers so much, because points are cool as hell to watch. It's fun to see teams score despite what SEC fans may tell you.
Yes there is something to be said about having a great defense, and Alabama's defense is great in absolutely every sense of the word. When the word great was first conceived, it was with the inflexible Tide defense in mind. That being said, points are just more fun. There was one touchdown scored in eight quarters of play between LSU and Alabama this year. As a football fan, I get a little channel-changey if I have to sit through one touchdown-less quarter.
Helping compile the agony of the Game Of The Century Part Deux was the absolutely tepid play of the LSU offense. Part of this was obviously a result of the slaughter-house like efficiency of the Alabama defense, but LSU would have been held under a hundred yards if they were playing my left nut. It almost made this game more boring than the first installment. At least both teams scored in that one.
The best part of all this is going to be listening to ESPN tell us this was actually a good game, and that we're all dumb for thinking it was boring. Trust us, they'll insist, you only fell asleep on the couch because of how exhausted you didn't realize you were. No ESPN, I fell asleep on the couch because the game was fucking boring. And of course all last week we were taught the Rose Bowl and Fiesta Bowl and their gobs of points were prime examples of bad football that we weren't actually enjoying. A sugar high from points pixy stix (I don't know how your supposed to spell that), as opposed to the wholesome nourishment that can be extracted from a defensive struggle we should be craving.
Here's the thing, these bowls, they are all exhibition games. They don't mean anything, and they aren't even held by the NCAA. It's like playing the Superbowl to decide the champion of the Canadian Football League, and forgetting about the NFL after the regular season. It doesn't make any sense and there's just no way I'm taking the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl seriously. So don't give me that shit about these scoring filled games being bad games, gimme those points. Gimme a ridiculous game with ridiculous plays. These games are all for fun so why don't we have fun watching them?
Of course the other issue here is the #1 and #2 teams are 1-1 against each other. They say every game matters, but apparently exceptions are made and their first game actually doesn't count. Is this game suddenly more important because it's later in the year? Is it suddenly more important because Allstate and Discover payed ESPN and the BCS a shitload of money? (Checks earpiece) Okay, apparently that does make it more important. I'm not saying these aren't the two best teams. I'm just saying are we positive an offensive team with Andrew Luck or Justin Blackmon couldn't give one of these teams a run? Instead we got a rematch because EESSSSS-EEEEEE-CCCCEEEEEEE, and now the top two teams are 1-1. Awesome. Oh well, at least it's not the year Penn State was brought down by a child sex abuse scandal anymore.
