irrelevant? how
bad does it have to be to
be irrelevant?
I like to start my Sunday newspapers reading two sports columns in the online USA Today.
One is a column that tracks the winners and losers, those college football teams that came out as winners the previous Saturday and those college football teams that came out as losers.
My team lost and lost big to the Number One team in the nation.
Oddly though neither team made this column.
My team lost, was expected to lose and I guess as such, was not listed among the losers.
The other team, just be a loser of a team, and I guess as such, was not listed among the winners.
The other column is the College Football Misery Index.
This column tracks which college football team’s fans feel the worse.
Your team can win and you still feel lousey like last week, Ohio State beat Nebraska, but no one felt that good about it.
This week the five top teams whose fans are in Misery, all lost.
The next group of fans are listed as being Miserable but not miserable enough.
Georgia won their game but with their QB throwing 3 INT’s, their fans still feel not so great.
But here is the point.
My team didn’t make either list.
They are so awful, that there no longer even figure in the conversation of teams whose fan’s feel awful.
My team had a very good year last year.
I should be able to manage a bad year this year.
But who planned on being … irrelevant.
My team has been here before.
We hired this feller known as the Morgantown Miracle Worker as head coach and he was reverse Amish.
He did less with more than almost any coach known in the history of the game.
My team didn’t lose often, at least until Rich Rod came along.
He even lost to the University of Toledo.
Lost to Toledo and then an odd thing happened.
Toledo had a bad season, beat my team but had a bad season.
Almost any other time in history, any team from the state of Ohio that beat my team was a reason to give the coach a better contract.
This year though was different.
Beating my team didn’t matter and that Toledo coach got fired.
My team was irrelevant to the conversation that season..
Much like my team was this past weekend.
Winner?
Loser?
In Misery?
In the wrap up conversation about the weekend of football, my team had again become, irrelevant.
Are we back in those bad old days so soon?
Oh well, there was always last year.
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