FIFA Uses the BCS Too?
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by user LastRow
Apparently it looks as if the world’s brand of futbol isn’t that much different than of American football which we love so dearly and gives us a reason to turn into a couch potato and hibernate in our house on weekends in the fall while scratching ourselves. Now, I don’t know if this is a complement to the global game of futbol or an insult to our college football, but I fail to see a difference in the two as odd as that might sound. Confused, yeah, I am for sure, and we still have over a month for the real craziness to begin.
Wasn’t it just me or did I not see Italy beat France Sunday by way of Penalty Kicks…It might’ve been my television? I have yet to upgrade to a plasma high definition boob tube. On Wednesday (hey that’s today) the FIFA's redesigned world soccer rankings were released… Brazil remained No. 1 with World Cup champion Italy moving up to No. 2. WHAT? When did the BCS go global? No wait, not even the BCS is this ludicrous…This can’t be serious, Brazil is ranked No.1? Then why even play the World Cup? I suppose some ingenious futbol guru is going to explain to me on why they do so…Like I give a shit, it’s sarcasm people. Under the new ranking system, which changes the criteria for rating the world's top teams, Argentina moved into third place with France No. 4 and England No. 5. Wait, so this is an entirely new ranking system…Let me guess the old one didn’t work? I can very much see this one does though. Is it just me, but didn’t France receive their little silver medals Sunday for coming in second. So that means they did lose to Italy, so if the Italians won that means France would be the first place losers AKA second. How in the hell are they fourth in the world then? On what basis did Argentina move into third place ahead of France? No, hold up…I’d still like an explanation on Brazil being top dog. Didn’t France beat them?
Glad to see these “new” rankings got something right. The U.S. and Mexico were two of the biggest losers, yeah no shit the U.S. are losers…Like we needed a computer to tell us this? The United States dropped from fifth to 16th. We only dropped 11 places after only scoring one lousy goal in about 300 minutes of play to 16? Sixteen, isn’t that the number of teams which made it out of group play? Oh, so then we did too…I missed that part? Mexico, who actually did reach the second round, fell from No. 4 to 18. Germany, which finished third in the World Cup and was the host nation, moved up 10 spots from 19 to No. 9, but didn’t they win the ever important “Third Place Game”? Ghana, which reached the second round and ousted us from the tourney also took a big jump, going from 48 to 25. 25th, weren’t they in the final 16? Oh, Tommy Smyth, where are you? I need this explained to me…(Sarcasm People)
After taking a look at these standings, regrettably I say that the BCS doesn’t look so bad now, do they? Yeah, it still completely blows, but for the team that comes out victorious in the National Championship isn’t second fiddle to the team that wins the Cotton Bowl. Or how about the team that has one loss gets that BCS dick up their ass by a team that has two losses. Or don’t forget the team that beat the team who eventually lost to that team…Get it?
If I don’t stop this madness I’m going to end up like Juergen Kiessling….Who? The World Cup coordinator who shot himself in the head hours after Sunday's final in an apparent suicide attempt. As we all can see he had plenty of motive for doing this…In fact I’m sure we’ll all be in the same mind set as Juergen Kiessling some point this fall. Likely right after we hear computers are our friends, and the BCS works. Yeah, maybe for Brazil.
Source
- LastRowSports.com
Date
Wed 07/12/06, 8:08 pm EST
