"We've got to protect our phony-baloney jobs, gentlemen. We must do something about this immediately, immediately, immediately! Harumph! Harumph! Harumph!"
Posted on 04/18/2008 8:49:52 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta
Justice Department to investigate whether college football's Bowl Championship Series is an illegal enterprise.
Reps. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., and Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, are introducing a resolution rejecting the oft-criticized bowl system as an illegal restriction on trade. The resolution would require Justice's antitrust division to investigate whether the system violates federal law....
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Give us a play-off!!!! Pleazzzzz
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Glad to see our politicians are so hard at work.
How are you going to work a playoff system in football? Not as simple to do as in basketball.
And on issues so vital to our nation's security and economic well-being, too.
Better they spend time on this, then increases taxes, minum wages, putting in national health care, etc.
They should be investigating “Big Academia” for anti-trust violations and price gouging long before they investigate the NCAA. Having said that, this is probably more in keeping with the interstate commerce clause than 95% of the stuff currently being interfered with and regulated under that premise.
I’d prefer they get real jobs.
Oh they are just jealous that SEC teams keep winning the BCS Championship.
We must stop this insanity!.......The Dem investigation, not the BCS, which is insanity, but totally legal.......
Use existing bowls as the playoff bowls and rotate them yearly.
Allow all teams outside of the play-off to continue to have the minor bowls.
THAT’s THE REAL REASON!!!!...SEC: SECond to NONE!..........
Yes. They are from the government and they’re coming to help.
More pols sticking their noses into things they have no business meddling in....again.
We must make if fair for all so no one’s feelings are hurt.
"We've got to protect our phony-baloney jobs, gentlemen. We must do something about this immediately, immediately, immediately! Harumph! Harumph! Harumph!"
Just the kind of important thing Congressmen should be doing. (sarcasm)
The Bowls will need to be 'bought off' because nobody will actually go to those games if they are reduced in importance. The current system, bad as it is, is acceptable to the major bowls.
“I’d prefer they get real jobs.”
They can’t. Who’d pay them what they make? Ooh, I forgot: lobbyists.
Holy crap! Baseball investigations-now football? Gee glad to see my money goes for such important work in DC!!! Thanks to those voting in these clowns!
Keep their slimy hands off.
Bottom Line: There will always be someone who feels that they were unjustly left out of the process.
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