Football Sunday - Why am I Sad About the Cleveland Browns?

I know that most of you think that I could give a rats behind about the NFL, and generally that is true, but this year I think I ate something that didn't agree with my brain and all of a sudden I find myself actually rooting for the Cleveland Browns.

I will admit to having lived in Cleveland (of course I got my attorney's consent before I made that admission). 

I can't imagine living there again, but I want to give a shout out to all of my good Cleveland/Ohio homies with which I share more than a lifetime of great memories. 

And in the spirit of solidarity with my Ohioites, I even wore my American Masonry mock-turtle neck sweatshirt this weekend, and when that comes out, you know it is a special occasion (or that it is cold).

Maybe it is Colt McCoy (who somehow doesn't look like a complete tool in the absolutely horrible Browns uniform, which by the way, I can't think of how you would change it to be not hideous, but maybe that is the point.) putting up a couple of great games. 

Maybe that it is that the Browns for some reason inspire that come from behind, root for the underdog sentiment, but whatever it is, they are captivating this year despite their loss earlier today in overtime to the Jets after which I almost shed a tear.

So Go Browns!

Further south, the Buckeyes threw a beating to the little kittens of Penn State, and denied the always classy Joe Paterno his 401st win.  I don't care who you are, or what school you route for, there is nothing more beautiful than an end-zone in the Shoe. 

And say what you want about Tressel-Ball, it may not be flashy, but it works, most of the time, it sure did this weekend.

But now we need to have a quick chat about the BCS, what are they thinking?  I have been pouring through the data and I can't for the life of me figure out how Oregon is ranked #1.  The Brig Poll finally got them up to #15, but that is about all of the love they are going to get, they might make it up into the top 10 by the end of the season, but #1?

I know all about their offense, and I know they are undefeated, but come on, they have not played anybody but Stanford, and Stanford has basically played the same schedule as Oregon, but that is even worse than Oregon, because Stanford doesn't even play themselves this year.

And they get no love for the 2pt win over Cal, that win was a gift against a now 5 loss Cal, which basically sums up the Pac10 this year.

Don't get me started on TCU and Boise State, I know that TCU looks really impressive, but they get to claim Oregon State and a now debunked Utah as their claim to fame.  Unfortunately we will probably have to watch another TCU-Boise State match-up this bowl season, the bonus of which all of the BCS AQ conferences will have to cry and whine about all of that cash that they thought was guaranteed to two of their conferences, is going to get paid out to the WAC and the MWC.

Can we get a playoff already? 

In a couple of weeks I am going to try to roll out "Brig's Plan to Make All College Football Fans Happy (and the money men too)", if I can get it to work. I am really close.

Then it puts to rest all of the Smurf Turf jokes and forces Boise State to finally play on a real road to victory without talking out of both sides of its mouth (yep I said it, you can't on one hand say no-one will dare play you, and on the other hand demand $1mm and a home and home against a team that can fill an 80,000 seat stadium...)  After all, this is a business.