Drastic times take drastic measures. While I'm still waiting for Mike Alden to call me on the Batphone and tell me "Kansas is in the Orange Bowl...SIKE!", I'm calling for a boycott on FedEx. Even if Mike called me, my emotions would be to punch him in the face, but I wouldn't. What I still would do is boycott FedEx.Sure, you employed my dad back in the late 70's. I don't give a shit. Not only did you try to fuck me on receiving my Xbox 360 from the repair center, but then you leave a note on my door saying that I can't pick anything up until late at night! I'm at work at 3:30a you pricks.
It's shopping season, and our two options are using UPS and DHL. Ok, I have no clue what DHL stands for, but I still know the premise. They deliver stuff.
See what happens when you accidentally pick Kansas over Mizzou for a BCS bowl? Your stock goes down (as of 11a Monday morning), your employees hate you because you work them overnight, and a boycott happens. If you would have picked Mizzou to play VTech, the fact that Osama Bin Laden uses FedEx to ship his book club from a cave wouldn't have came out. Whoops, did I let that slip?There is only one way to rectify this problem: admit your error. We've all done things that we regret. Several of mine have names like Kate and Stephanie. Your's is easier to fix, FedEx. You tell the one kU football fan that you meant to pick Missouri, but couldn't find it on your delivery map. Not a big surprise, we knew you were dumb. Hell, Jayhawk fans won't even notice. It's basketball season.
See, Mizzou beat two of the current BCS teams, Illinois and Kansas, and played well once against the Sooners before losing in the B12 title game. I tried finding the Jayhawk game this weekend; ABC, Lifetime, Oxygen, but I couldn't find it. Then it dawned on me...they were at home watching reruns of "I Love New York". They didn't even play in a game this weekend because they got beatdown by the team that you passed up on. Nice call FedEx. Hopefully Osama's book club makes up for your losses, bastards.
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I never use FEDEX and now I have an even greater reason not to. I have a buddy who works for them and he said never to ship anything FEDEX because they don'y give two shits about your stuff. He told me how they play games to see who can kick it the furthest and how high.
You guys do deserve some answers. I wish they just would have said "well we wanted Kansas more that Missouri." That is about the only explanation that seems to make any sense given that Missouri was the more deserving team. I don't think they need to make apologies since they didn't have to take the better team. But they should atleast explain it...
I posted this on the "Welcome to the Zou" blog as well, but I wanted to share it here as well.
I don't want to come off as a BCS-apologist...nothing could be further from the truth. It baffles me how Ohio St. is considered the de facto no. 1 team and belongs in the BCS title game. They won perhaps the weakest BCS conference, and did so without defeating a top-15 team this season.
But...the BCS is not Mizzou's problem. The BCS is charged with finding the no. 1 and no. 2 team and pitting them against each in a championship game. The BCS (by this, I mean the formula) did not keep Mizzou of the Orange Bowl. A short-sighted, ignorant committee kept Mizzou of the Orange Bowl.
You summed this up well in your post, but I wanted to add this to it, mainly because I've been hearing nothing about "The BCS screwed over the Tigers" from most places. Thanks for taking the time to actually address the root of the problem, rather than just taking the easy "Screw the BCS" cop-out.
Having said all that...the BCS sucks. Like I said above...Ohio St.???? Seriously????
Gingerballs hit it on the head. I don't care that he is a kU fan...we screwed our chances away. Now, did we deserve an "at large" bid over kU. You better damn well believe it.
If kU beat Texas or OU in the regular season, lost the B12 North title away, and still made it to the BCS, I wouldn't have a qualm about it. Their schedule didn't have ANY BCS teams. Ours had four. Yet, we pissed away our chances at the BCS title. It's nobody's fault but our own as far as a guarantee.
And yes gingerballs...I still hate you and kU :)
I dont' know who wrote this, but I thought it was funny. Too bad kU got the last laugh. :-(
Bud Light Presents: Real Men of Genius
(real men of genius)
Today we salute you, Mr. Excuse Ridden Over-Confident Kansas Football
Fan.
(Mr. Excuse Ridden Over-Confident Kansas Football Fan)
Eleven straight wins, you wore that classy "Muck Fizzou" shirt like you
meant it
(Pinch me, I'm dreamin'!)
A season of bloated statistics and over-hyped wins against Junior
Varsity competition
(Serve another cupcake!)
Losing to a superior team with better players is no match for your
what-if scenarios and could-have-been dreams
(The field goal missed by inches!)
So crack open an ice-cold Bud Light you emphatic engineer of excuses.
After all, you would've won the game if it was played somewhere else!
(Mr Excuse Ridden Over-Confident Kansas Football Fan.)
Steve - and don't forget that the best out of conference win the ENTIRE Big 11 had was OSU @ Washington (last place PAC 10)
Mary - That actually is a decent jingle.
Now, this may be understandably difficult...
- but try and forget for a minute your hatred for KU and...
- let's say the BCS rules made sense and after the conference champs they could select 4 teams irregardless of conference affiliation - would you still feel that KU did not play anyone and is therefore not deserving?
I hate the "What If's", but here's something to think about: Switch the scores of kU and OU games and tell me we aren't in a BCS game. Take the kU game (still a Mizzou win) at 38-17 and the B12 title game (still a Mizzou loss) at 36-28.
I'd say we get in. I little more dominating over kU and a hell of a lot closer in the B12 title game. Did getting blown out against the Sooners cost us? Probably.
Without a doubt. Not only would you be seen as better, but Kansas would have fallen MUCH further if they had been beaten by 3 touchdowns instead of 1.
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