Enough, Congress, get back to work!!!

Okay, this might not make sense for my first post to the awesome blog that is College Football Heaven, but here we go anyways…

Consider this an open letter to Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa), Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Ca), or any other knucklehead on the Hill that decides to focus their massive egos and pomposity on the world of sports. I have one word for you, and despite my better instincts in admitting this, I’m going to steal from the immortal Diana Ross to say it: stop! Or, maybe you’d prefer Aretha Franklin’s line from The Blues Brothers: you better think! Or, maybe… okay, enough with the wit. I’ll just say it straight out. Stop it. Just stop it. Take a step back from the abyss, have some pride in what you were elected to do, and start focusing on things that really matter. I’m here to plead with you to act with deference to your position and stop all the B-S.

It’s mind-boggling to me that in a day and age where over 4000 of our men and women have been lost in Iraq, gas is sky-rocketing towards $4-a-gallon, and the housing bubble hasn’t only popped but imploded, that the most powerful governing body in the world would choose to spend what few days it does work looking into whether Jose Canseco ever injected Roger Clemens with steroids, HGH, insulin, Botox, or whatever it is crazy celebrities do at parties these days. Or, how they can claim national best interest in “investigating” Matt Walsh’s videography. Personally, I could care less if he taped the Rams walkthrough, their cheerleaders in the Edward Jones Dome showers, or even Georgia Frontiere’s lavish funeral. I don’t care, and neither should they.

How does all this relate to our chosen love of college football? Quite easily, actually. It wasn’t but a month ago that Reps. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA), and Mike Simpson (R-ID) announced their plans to look into the corruption that is the Bowl Champion Series. Collusion at the top, they claim. To any college football aficianado (like the fellows you’ll find posting here), this sounds all-too-familiar, right? But before we go off endorsing them hauling BCS commissioners like the Big 10’s Jim Delany or the SEC’s Paul Atkins in front of the House Commission on Whatever, we need to understand that their support of a playoff isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement. I’m no fan of the current system and have heard no viable reason why a limited tournament couldn’t be instituted by the end of the current contract, but is this really the job of 110th Congress? I don’t think so, and I bet you don’t either.

Enough of the rant. Sports are an American mainstay, and I get that more than anyone, but college football is not the purview of Capitol Hill. It belongs in places like Baton Rouge and Columbus. That’s it. You do your job, distinguished men and women of Congress, and let we college football fans do ours!