College football is my favorite American sport. It has the potential to be a beacon of light in a sports world mired by greedy owners and egomaniacal players. However, due to the postseason format, every college football season ends the same way: a clusterfuck of good teams with no discernible champion, and 30 other bowl games that really, really suck. The Insight Bowl is one of those games. Its great that Tempe still has a bowl game after Glendale stole the Fiesta Bowl from under our noses, but even on a beautiful December day, the last of the year, its hard to get too excited about the Kansas-Minnesota match up. Both teams are 7-5, unranked, and playing for, in the eyes of an unbiased observer, absolutely nothing. The battle on the field was uninspired, with KU clearly superior to a Minnesota squad that displayed nothing even remotely bowl worthy on either side of the ball. Kansas won, beers were 11 bucks, there was no re-entry at halftime, and I'm not a big fan of Midwestern women. Still, it was good to walk into Sun Devil Stadium one time this year without leaving thoroughly disgusted by the Sun Devil football program.
It being the 31st of december, our trip to the stadium took on different meaning, as we walked backwards a block to ride the light rail for the first time. Things took a strange turn early on, as we walked passed the trailer park on terrace, two old men in a little beat up car drove past and hollered something about getting haircuts and joining the army.... at the Dorsey light rail station 3 heavily armored cars roared past on a mission of certain destruction. The train was packed, and our first attempt at green travel in the valley was thwarted by angry geriatrics who, apparently, cant stand the sweet stench of youth. Without the train, we were forced to walk to the stadium....
Planes circled, 5 Members of the US military preformed precision jumps onto the fifty yard line, and three jets streaked by at high speed. A weak postseason matchup was trounced by the demonstration of power put on by the military. Long live football, Say goodbye to Bush's Army.
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