Monday, August 25, 2008

A Few Things I Want to See Happen in Sports This Year; or South Carolina is USC too

Since I am a red blooded Southern boy, I consider the beginning of the sports year to be opening day of football season. It's like Christmas in the Summer... it's Sportsmas. To kick off this grand holiday here are a few of my Sportsmas wishes:

1. Southern Cal loses their entire season... except to Noter Dame. Is there more of a team that needs to have a major NCAA violations investigation? I don't think so. Plus they're on the West Coast. I can't pull for a West Coast team.

2. No one from the NFL partakes in any criminal activity. This includes Southern Cal, since they are LA's pro team.

3. The World Series comes down to Tampa Bay and the Cubs. This will be the only time I pull for the AL... unless the Mets were representing the National League. I don't dislike the Amercan League as much as I hate the DH rule. Don't get me started on that crap.

4. Steven A. Smith vanishes into nothing. Maybe he goes to India and finds a sports guru. He learns the art of not being such a moron. He comes back and begins doing real sports analysis with people of all races and preaches love... not hate. He converts Jim Rome to Smithism and they tour the world in a soft rock band called "Quite Frankly, I'm Burning" or "Rome & Smith: The Quiet Experience".

5. Chris "Boomer... not Esiason" Berman loses his voice. He's stupid. He says nothing. He doesn't even pay attention to the game he announces. His voice is like a woodchipper mixed with a leaf blower.

6. Noter Dame loses all of their games, loses their NBC contract, and realizes they need to join the Big Eleven... I mean Ten. Seriously, how many more parents are going to have to explain why the Big Ten has Eleven teams? It's hard enough for a 3 year old to count without having to do abstract math.

7. Southern Cal loses in court. Who seriously sues an older school over use of their letters. South Carolina has been SC and USC for a longer ammount of time than Southern Cal. I see this case being a flop later in the courts. Basically, USC... the one out west, has more money and the California judge went to USC... the California one. If the trial was on the east coast, USC... the South Carolina one would have won. The logo in question was long in use by South Carolina, before Southern Cal ever existed. Plus, the name is "University of South Carolina" and the state abbreviation is SC. You can't change the initials. Next, UNC sues for the name "Carolina".

8. Strahan returns so we can get some more funny commercials. I guess a return of decent commercials in general, with or without Strahan, would be my general wish.

9. We don't have to listen to how wonderful the Summer Games were. It was in China on international TV. It was planned out. The US did poorly, except where they were dominant. It was the Olympics. On to traditional sports with contact and real injuries.

10. This picture gets put everywhere,

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