Red Shirt, Blue Shirt: Verizon acquires Alltel/ Gators Make Sooner Gumbo

Hello all. I haven't written anything in a while but I realized that the deadline I need to meet for my job by today should not affect my passing of knowledge to you great people. So I return to you this new year devoid of unkept promises that many of you made over the beginning of the New Year.

So those Alltel commercials are coming to an end?! I don't really care too much about Alltel and Verizon's takeover of the smaller company. What I, like many of you, am wondering is how will this merger affect the Alltel commercials?! I don't even watch tv that often but in an era full of 'nice try but no dice' ads (ahem, Gatorade's G ads), the Alltel commercials get by with a passing grade.

I don't really know much (at all) about advertising but I do know what entertains me. Swiffer is going to have to win that award because their commercials with Player's 'Baby Come Back' are hilarious. If you disagree, you're a loser. Just kidding. You're at least not as cool and intellectual as I am however.

Ask Grambo about that advertising stuff. I'll stick with College Football. And yeah, I was right: Florida picked apart the Sooners. Though, I may end up wrong about him going in the NFL draft. Most teams can't even take the time to convince Tebow to enter the draft as they are in search of a coach.

And honestly, if you just won the national championship as a junior, was arguably the best athlete in college sports and went to UF, would you leave?! I'll go out on a limb and say that dancing on the beach and being the best at what I do would be more attractive to me than signing contracts and paying taxes and all that grown up stuff that will still be there in a year.

Tebow, Please Stay! You were College Football this season.

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Thoughts on the BCS

Sometimes you don't care about the economy, sometimes you don't care about international politics and sometimes you don't care about PEObama (rarely, I'm sure.. but it happens). Many times all you want to do is kick back and watch some good ol' College Football.

For me, you can only count on me watching College Football 4 days out of the year; The 4 days of the Championship Bowls.

Tim Tebow is ill. And will murk the Sooners.

I, like any semi-College Football fan, has an opinion on BCS bowl rankings and the current system: I hate it. The issue that plagues the brains of the operations however, is how can it be changed? As of now the system relies on a multiple polls including a coach's poll, the official BCS standings and the BCS computer which looks at season match-ups, points and each team's schedule strength. Selfishly, I dislike the system because it leaves for only 4 days of juicy match-ups within 8 days instead of 6 days of intense playoffs over the course of 4 weekends.

If I had my way (which invariably happens to be just a slight twist of Obama's way), a similar voting system would be used to set up a 16 team play-off. Of the 16 teams, 10 of those teams would be the winners of their conference championship and the system would be used to decide the other 6 spots.

I doubt many of y'all who have been following College Football since you could remember would be anywhere near to agreeing with me. Many take the possible fall of Bowl games as disrespectful to the spirit and tradition of College Football and logistically, networks are busy buying future stakes in BCS games to broadcast until 2014 (ahem, ESPN, ahem).

And think about it this way too... if we took the Rose Bowl away, Citigroup would only have CitiField to squander money on!


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Oh, yeah! And expect quaterback Tim Tebow to probably run away with the Heisman this week and have a career day on January 8th and go top 5 in the NFL Draft, depending on how the rest of the NFL season wraps up. And while you're doing all of that, you can remember who told you first.
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