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Barack Obama becomes U.S. President based on pro-NCAA Football playoff system views
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On Monday, Senator Barack Obama came out in a Monday Night Football interview in favor of a playoff system for NCAA Football -- a controversial issue that many politicians avoid like the plague -- and just 24 hours later Senator Barack Obama has become President Barack Obama.
You do the math.
It's a controversy that goes back to last century when the failing bowl system time and time again failed to give long-time college football fans a true national champion and instead mired itself again and again in the indecisiveness of polls and computer algorithms.
In the late days of a fierce and vicious battle for the President of the United States, both John McCain and Barack Obama were asked what one thing they would change in sports. While McCain stuck with the expected down-with-steroids philosophy of sporting change, Barack Obama took a massive swing at what many believe to be the country's most lobbied group -- the NCAA.
"I think it is about time that we had playoffs in college football. I'm fed up with these computer rankings and this and that and the other. Get eight teams -- the top eight teams right at the end. You got a playoff. Decide on a national champion."
It's long been held that one of the main power brokers at work to keep college football from crowning a national champion based on a playoff system is EA Sports, whose NCAA Football series would require special programming to change its current bowl system over to the playoff system, a change that would take efforts away from realistically depicting cheerleaders on the sidelines.
In coming out against the BCS, Barack Obama aligned himself against not just EA Sports, but also against members of the SEC, Big 12 and Pac-10 who have used their superior schedules and quality opponents to better position themselves in a race with no real winner.
But, in doing so, he won the support of the one group of people he needed in order to secure the Presidency: the Pittsburgh Steelers. And it was with their support, and their eventual win over the Washington Redskins in an epic game that has so often been the pivotal battle of the election, that foretold Obama's eventual victory.
So, as America celebrates its newest President, let us remember that it is not just a victory for America, and it is not just a victory of American sports, but it also a victory for any student or alumni of Boise State or TCU or East Carolina or Louisiana-Lafayette who have been left out in the cold in their quest for a national champion.
Congratulations Mr. President.
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