End of a Season

It's New Year's Eve and the college football season is almost over. For years, the season officially ended on New Year's Day with the big bowl games: the Rose, the Sugar and the Orange. Now there are way too many bowl games and the so-called National Championship game isn't played until Jan. 7. Teams that barely eked out a so-so 6-6 season go to "bowls." I've decided to just consider them a 13th game for the 50 or so teams involved. I'll still consider the Sugar, Orange etc. as real bowl games: games awarded to deserving teams for having really good seasons. The Georgia Bulldogs played in some "bowl" the other day and finished their season with a 44-20 win over Texas A&M. But they had a lousy season and didn't deserve to play another game. But that's the system in place now so they did. And all the bowls have some sponsor's name attached: the Sugar Bowl is officially the Nokia Sugar Bowl (I think). Except the Peach Bowl, which was the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl until they decided to drop the traditional bowl name altogether and just go with the sponsor's name. So now it's just the Chick-fil-A Bowl. Disgusting.