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re: Congress Getting Involved with Playoff Implementation?
Posted on 12/3/08 at 8:03 am to Geauxtiga
Posted on 12/3/08 at 8:03 am to Geauxtiga
Even if the BCS was illegal that would not mean that a playoff would be mandated. They would go back to the bowl system. Congress cannot impair the obligations of contracts and ESPN has a contract thru 2014. No playoff anytime soon.
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Posted on 12/3/08 at 8:14 am to Geauxtiga
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rejects the BCS system as an illegal restraint of trade that violates the Sherman Anti-Trust Act;
Sounds like they are maybe stepping into the role of the judicial system.
Posted on 12/3/08 at 8:24 am to ellessuuuu
The GOVERNMENT should have no effein business in this.
Posted on 12/3/08 at 8:30 am to rbdallas
Obama already made the comment that a playoff will have to be forced on the wealthy bowl elitist. I say do it, and now every congressman in Texas is gonna have pressure to do something about the chokehold of the Rosebowl types. They may have left the wrong team out of the NC this year. Texas may get the last laugh. 
Posted on 12/3/08 at 9:11 am to PinevilleTiger
It's amazing that college football has survived for over 100 years as the greatest sport in America without a playoff. Now, a few retards from ESPN spew off the need for a playoff and everyone is on board.
Posted on 12/3/08 at 9:13 am to hashtag
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Now, a few retards from ESPN spew off the need for a playoff and everyone is on board.
Yet those ESPN retards were deathly silent in 2004.
The government needs to stay out of this.
Posted on 12/3/08 at 9:14 am to Geauxtiga
So...the US no longer being a free nation is official now?
Posted on 12/3/08 at 9:15 am to Geauxtiga
Congress need to stay the frick out of college football and college sports. They fricked things up enough already with Title IX
Posted on 12/3/08 at 9:17 am to KingKoopa
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Last time government got involved in football the forward pass got invented, so maybe this is a good thing.
naw the last time i remember it happening with any effect was the tulane lawsuit that made a mockery of the BCS
Posted on 12/3/08 at 9:29 am to SlowFlowPro
I'll be the first to state it...."Congress hates LSU!"
Posted on 12/3/08 at 10:08 am to 8thyearsenior
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I like college football as much as the next guy but the last thing I think congress needs to be worried about is football.
Its clearly their top priority.
Posted on 12/3/08 at 10:14 am to Volvagia
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Wrong.
Was Teddy Roosevelt not President at the time or something?
Posted on 12/3/08 at 10:17 am to Macavity92
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Congress cannot impair the obligations of contracts and ESPN has a contract thru 2014.
But they can get the FCC to deny ESPN the permits it needs to operate unless they release their counterparties from those contracts. Or they can purchase those contracts just like they can force people of their land to build dams.
The Federal government has lots of means to get their way. Look at the drinking age in Louisiana, it was raised to 21 primarily due to pressure from the federal government in the form of the withholding of federal highway funds.
This post was edited on 12/3/08 at 10:18 am
Posted on 12/3/08 at 10:19 am to SG_Geaux
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They fricked things up enough already with Title IX
Clearly Title IX has destroyed college football. College football is a smoldering remnant of what it once was before Title IX.
Posted on 12/3/08 at 10:50 am to Geauxtiga
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Posted on 12/3/08 at 10:54 am to KingKoopa
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Was Teddy Roosevelt not President at the time or something?
Oh he was, he just had nothing to do with the invention of the forward pass.
This post was edited on 12/3/08 at 10:55 am
Posted on 12/3/08 at 1:42 pm to Volvagia
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Oh he was, he just had nothing to do with the invention of the forward pass.
Posted on 12/3/08 at 1:43 pm to Mike da Tigah
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* Please see my sig quote.
What about it?
Posted on 12/3/08 at 2:16 pm to KingKoopa
How is it anti-trust?? The 6 big conferences signed off on this. It wasn't force fed to them. It's not like one company has a monopoly on it.
Posted on 12/4/08 at 11:45 am to ssgrice
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How is it anti-trust?? The 6 big conferences signed off on this.
??? A prerequisite for a trust is that the 6 big conferences all agree to something.
Of course what they have to agree to is price fixing - and the BCS seems like a stretch for that.
quote:A trust can be formed when several companies get together and conspire to fix prices.
It's not like one company has a monopoly on it.
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