Re: College Football IV: The Hand over Fist Cash Grab Time, or Bowl Season for short.
A commentary of the quality of play- feel free to ignore it, but I think I would feel better if I get this off my chest.
While I wasnt planning on watching the whole game (thank you 8:40 start time), I was hoping to at least see the first half and be very entertained by the play. Having seen both teams a few times throughout the season, the offensive expectations were high, but tempered with the experience that bowl games are usually played poorly due to the time off.
Making the story short- I went to bed to read at 9:20, since the book was a lot more entertaining. Yes, you could see that the defenses were well prepared to play this game. But, good Lord, were the offenses terrible. It made the beginning of the game as boring as watching grass grow, and I was constantly flipping channels to find a distraction to keep me awake. Thankfully, Mrs Alfa was watching the Bachelor in another room, and short outbursts from her lifted me from my brief slumber.
This morning, I was half expecting some great score once both sides got rolling. But no- Oregon tied it at 19(!?) late in the game only to allow Auburn to kick a field goal to win the game. So going to bed, I missed roughly- nothing.
As was commented earlier- this culminated a rather poor bowl season to watch- I try to watch bowl games for the fun of it, and very few of them were all that entertaining- the UNC-TNN game was the most, as the game ended in multiple disasters. I was lucky to miss all but a handful of downs by the losses of the B10- and didn't see much of their wins, either.
All in all, the only game I remember was the Tarheels vs. Volunteers- and that was more for how pathetic the game ended.
I wonder where we go from here.
