At Last, Our Long National Nightmare Is Over

For lo, there is now a bipartisan effort in Congress to get rid of the dreaded Bowl Championship Series.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers fed up with the lack of a college football playoff have formed their own political action committee, Playoff PAC.

The group includes Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), who have all railed against the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) system that makes it all-but-impossible for small schools to win a national championship.

Abercrombie and Hatch have home-state interests in seeing a playoff system. The University of Hawaii, University of Utah and Brigham Young University are perennial contenders to go undefeated in a season, but, because they don't play in one of the major conferences, they're never mentioned as possible national champions in college football's top flight.

Abercrombie blasted as "arbitrary" and "anti-competitive" the most recent BCS rankings, which had only one small school, No. 4 Boise State University, in the Top 10.

No offense guys, but there are BIGGER PROBLEMS TO WORRY ABOUT RIGHT NOW.

Hell's Bells. No wonder Congress's approval rating is in the low 20's.

Pass f'cking health care reform, you douchebags.