Still reveling in the Vols' four overtime win against Kentucky yesterday, I popped open today's sports section to see which NFL games were on TV. Scanning the schedule, it occurred to me that there was not a single match up of teams with winning records. OK, there was one on Thursday (Detroit vs. Green Bay), but you get my point.
I have some friends who are thoroughly convinced that college football is better than the NFL. Their argument goes that in the NFL teams play as much not to lose as to win and that the offensive and defensive schemes are cookie-cutter. They'll also say that the steps that the league takes to ensure parity (scheduling, the draft and the salary cap) makes most teams mediocre (this year's an exception with the Patriots).
I tend to favor the pro game. The quality of the players and coaching leads to closer games (you don't see nearly as many blowouts in the pros as in college). Also, my friends who argue that the pro fans aren't as passionate as college ones never really got into a pro team. Me and fellow Raider fans are easily as into them as the UT fans are into the Vols. Also, pro ball doesn't have the dark underbelly of the college game, such as adults investing a huge amount of their self worth into a bunch of 18-20 year olds, the schools making tons of money off the the unpaid players, and the rampant academic fraud.
Still, this late in the season it would be nice to see at least some teams battling for the playoffs playing each other. It sure made this weekend of college football fun to watch.
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