HOOK 'EM HORNS

I didn't stick around long enough to see the post-game interviews after 'Bama knocked off the Texas Longhorns in the BSCS college bowl championship. (For close readers, I know; I added an extra S in the title game abbreviation. You can probably figure out what I meant, and if you can't just look to the first letter, put them together and now you know what I think of the whole system.)

After Texas qb McCoy got knocked out of the game in the first quarter, I didn't think it'd be much of a game. For the most part I was right, until the orange-clads made a post-haste run but fell short.

I've always liked the Texas colors for some reason, but 'Bama red is pretty awesome, too. So I was quandried as to whom to pull for. I told my wife I was going to root for the team with the prettier cheerleaders and since they were both Southern schools, the choice might be difficult. She's used to my kind of silliness and paid me no mind as they might say at either school.

But what I missed besides a good comeback was Colt McCoy's responses to how he felt after having missed, in effect, the whole championship game. According to a good friend, it went something like this: Sure, I'm disappointed. But God controls my life. The same God who allowed me play football at this level. And if it was for His purpose that I had to sit out, then I'm standing on The Rock."

Of course, my admiration for him went sky high. As my admiration for Florida's qb Tim Tebow who wore lamp black under his eyes with Eph. 2:9 on them. Those guys are stand up guys, who like Kurt Warner are the kinds of leaders you want to build a team around. Those kinds of guys who have their priorities straight.

Even in a championship game.