The SEC will win the championship...again.
No reason to hate.
But Notre Dame does NOT belong in the “Championship”
It plays too easy a schedule.
The coming Alabama - Notre Dame game is today's equivalent to the Super Bowl game.
Here’s an abbreviated video of Bama/Notre Dame 1973 Sugar Bowl in Tulane stadium.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v6UPz8d9sI
The state of Alabama didn't vote for Obama. "Backward" are the states that did.
Notre Dame wins this game straight up.....and I would certainly take the ten points any day. ND just has too much team speed for the Tide....their defense is special.
Have any of these juvenile haters ever considered that without great opponents like Notre Dame, Auburn, & Tennessee, Alabama would be little more than a redneck trade school?
Suppose Notre Dame, Auburn & Tennessee stopped playing Bama in football out of shear mutual hatred. Suppose Bama was left with only poor opponents to play, ones you can but pity rather than hate? How would that affect Bama’s prestige w/i the sports community? Doesn't the power & prestige of your opponent increase your own prestige? Would we admire Mohammed Ali without Frasier & Foreman?
I DO NOT want college sports to follow the path of European soccer leagues, which have degenerated into hooliganism, both on & off the field. Already an Alabama Fan (hater) has destroyed beautiful trees in an Auburn park, purely out of hatred.
The idea that one HATES his opponents is contrary to good sportsmanship & just plain ignorant. Encouraging hatred teaches the wrong lesson to players & fans.
(Being a redneck myself, I can call others that, just as blacks may use the N-word without rebuke.)
When Alabama and Notre Dame meet on January 7 for college football’s BCS championship, they will not be subjected to questions about race, religion, and region, like they were for much of the last century.
And today, any discussion about race, religion, and region concerning Alabama and Notre Dame is more positive in nature. Black football players are largely responsible for the SEC’s dominance. Notre Dame does not face the anti-Catholic bigotry it did the last century, and the face of the program, linebacker Manti Te’o, is a Mormon.
The country is more racially and religiously integrated, and the South is far less marginalized. And this is in part because of the influence Alabama and Notre Dame football has had on the nation's culture.
Consider how legendary Alabama football coach Bear Bryant and his Crimson Tide may have done as much to integrate the South as any civil rights leader by playing -- and losing -- a football game against USC in 1970 in Birmingham, Alabama.
;-)