Yahoo! Sports' Terry Bowden, in his blind haste to establish a college football playoff, gives us this: Boycott the Rose Bowl.

I don't want to get all our Big Ten and Pac-10 readers in a hussy, but many people think it will be those two conferences that ultimately will come between college football and a playoff system. Florida president Bernie Machin, who is spearheading the drive to persuade college presidents to consider a playoff, believes the only real problem will be the Big Ten and the Pac-10 because "they like their sweetheart deal with the Rose Bowl." Maybe fans can visit www.boycotttherosebowl.com, a site that reader David Barnes of Dallas emailed to me.

Is he insane?

Quote "they like their sweetheart deal with the Rose Bowl"

The Rose Bowl is the grand-daddy of them all.  It is the most celebrated singular sporting event in the country outside of the Super Bowl.  It is history, pageantry, tradition.  And desperate playoff honks are now advocating to weaken and/or destroy it.  What is wrong with you people?

Yes, the Rose Bowl is lucrative.  That's one of the perks of a successful enterprise: it makes money.  Those people in turn-of-the-century Pasadena - great Americans that they were - had the foresight to envision a grand and elaborate January postseason game in California.  They built the stadium, they marketed it, they marketed the game and the parade and everything else involved and created a tradition unlike anything else.  It was dangerous, there were uncertainties, an unclear return on investment but they plunged forward anyway because they had a vision for something grand.

Their vision became an impressive reality.  And it made a hell of a lot of money.  Money that drove others to jealousy.  Jealousy that drove competing bowl games to form the fore-runner to the BCS and eventually the BCS.  The moves made an elite handful of bowl games an incredible amount of money but dubiously tampered with the game's rich and longstanding postseason traditions.

And now we've gotten to the point where those unhappy with the BCS and the playoff zealots are demanding a boycott to the Rose Bowl because it's in the way of their silly and misguided playoff adventure?  Good grief.  Have any of you any taste for this game's great tradition?  For the foundations of postseason play?  Do you not realize that what makes the game particularly special and memorable is that our postseason is different?  Peculiar, even?

Any move towards a playoff only further weakens the very fundamentals of college football: a robust regular season punctuated with postseason pageantry.  Our game is about celebration more than it is elimination.  It is at its heart a regional game, punctuated with highly dramatic intersectional affairs.  At its heart it is about the week-to-week drama more than who is left standing at the end.

Any move towards a playoff is inevitably destructive instead of constructive.  Look at the movement now, chastising the Rose Bowl.  Clearly emotion has overcome rational thought.  Emotion makes bad policy...playoffs are bad policy, and they threaten much of what is so fundamental to the college football game as we have for so long known it.

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Update: Get the Picture concurs

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