Bowl Day
Yeah it’s finally here, 4:30 pm today our Terps take on the Wolfpack of Nevada in the Humanitarian Bowl, but then again I think everyone who would be interested in reading a Terps sports blog probably already knows that. But what I want to talk about is what a great feeling it is to sit here knowing that we are just hours away from watching a bowl game. I know, now days they hand out bowl bids like they hand out questionable literature on the strip in Las Vegas (just picture the illegal immigrant with a stack of invites snapping them in his hand while D1 coaches stare at their feet knowing that if they make eye contact they may be forced to accept a Motor City Bowl invite). But I’m happy. We’ve been bowling 6 of the last 8 years. Now ESPN isn’t going to make a poorly casted movie documenting a run of this magnitude, but least we forget 1985-2000. Those years sucked. I mean there was nothing to hang your hat on if you were a football fan, and that is why I’m celebrating today, because whatever your ambitions are for the program, you’ve got to stop and say to yourself “Today we are going bowling”, and though that in itself isn’t a big deal, the fact that Maryland fans went 15 years without uttering that sentence is. So blow off work, make some pop corn, sit your kid on your knee. It’s time to go watch the Terps, and isn’t it much more fun watching the last game of the year after Christmas, instead of in November?
Extra Droppings
I see Tommy Bowden has been scooped up by one of the major networks to provide some insight on the Bowl Games. Why do networks do that? If you had a show about investing, would you hire the guy that just helped drive AIG into the ground? Of course not, yet it happens in the world of sports all the time. “So Tommy, tell us what half time adjustments you’d make, now that the half time adjustments you made when it really matter got you fired.”.
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