Wednesday Dec 22

I'm disappointed in myself for watching more of this Las Vegas Bowl than the Missouri - Illiniois basketball game.  The bowl game tonight means nothing.  Actually every bowl game except for the last one means nothing.  It's funny how much I will let the announcers influence what I watch.  Musberger really adds a certain level of legitimacy to every game he is calling.  Throw in the Boise State factor and it has lead me to more time on ESPN than ESPN2 tonight

Seriously why is the #10 team in the country (BSU) playing their bowl game on Dec 22 while an unranked Connecticut is in a BCS Bowl?  Oh right.  The bowl system is logically flawed from a competitive standpoint.  I might do a little research later on but I'm pretty confident that the BCS system has given us some of our worst bowl match-ups ever.

I know for a fact that the ACC Champion used to go the Citrus Bowl.  The Citrus Bowl is now the Capital One Bowl just in case you didn't know that.  Now that the ACC is worse than ever they pretty much get an Orange Bowl bid.  Yeah that makes sense  Here is something I know:  Louisville would have never squared off against Wake Forest in an Orange Bowl under the old system.

So the Busch Bragging Rights game just ended like I've never seen a game end before.  Missouri was up 4 with about 50 seconds left.  Illinois got a steal and hit a 3 to cut it to 1.  Then Missouri pushed the ball to get a bucket to go up by 3.  There was a foul that was called intentional so it became a 6 point possession and the game was over.  Then Illinois head coach Bruce Weber had to tell the refs what he thought about it.  Mizzou got 8 points in about 8 seconds in what was a tight game.

I had my own game tonight against General Tso.  I got off to a fast start and thought I was going to finally defeat my nemesis.  My biggest mistake was to tell Brendan that I was getting after it.  That was the kiss of death.  I have still yet to eat an entire takeout order.  I'm just not good enough yet and quite honestly, I'm afraid that I never will be.

Oh look Boise State is crushing Utah.  Of course they are crushing the Utes.  I mean Notre Dame beat up on these guys.  It's a real shame that the Broncos aren't playing on New Year's Day.  Ok that's it for me.

Peace brah