That’s a pun from Texas Representative Joe Barton during the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Friday.  Your tax dollars at work.

The hearing was to pretend to investigate an alternative to the current BCS system, in the hopes of the government forcing its will upon the people yet again in order to establish a play-off system in College Football. Joe Barton has introduced legislation that would prohibit the NCAA from calling a team the National Champion unless they were determined through a playoff system.

The idea that the US government could fix anything is a joke. But you can’t argue that the BCS isn’t totally fucked (I love a good double negative). The Mountain West Conference is mounting (see what I did there?) a campaign (with a Washington lobby firm and everything!) to get a playoff system in place whereby a 12 person panel would picked the 8 best teams which would play in the Rose, Sugar, Fiesta and Orange Bowls, and then go on to the title game.  What they want is basically Football welfare. They want the system to help them out because it seems as though they can’t help themselves.

This seems good in theory, until you remember that panels are inherently wrong most of the time, leading to 7 BCS schools getting picked and a TCU or Louisville included to appease the bleeding hearts. And you know what? Maybe that’s because the BCS schools are actually better 9 times out of 10.

Did I forget to mention that the BCS was compared to communism because it doesn’t work and it needs to change? I think Cuba would like a word with you, my friend. The people down there would disagree with you. That is, if they were allowed to give interviews from the labor camps.

- Wanks MacGruber

[Image from the Los Angeles Times]