Speaking of Miami Football

I don’t think it will cheer me up, but I think I’ll talk about that other struggling local football team, the Miami Hurricanes. Well, I actually wanted to compliment Brian Costa at the Miami Herald for his insightful assessment of U of Miami’s bowl game prospects. Costa noted that Miami’s recent bowl history includes all of these famous gridiron classics: Peach, Orange, Fiesta, and Rose Bowls.

Then he pointed out that their opportunities for this season may read “more like the Yellow Pages.: Meaning Champs Sports, MCP Computers, or Meineke Car Care Bowls. With that one observation, he managed to convey both what a crummy year this normally dominant football school is having and how cheesy those commercialized bowl game names sound when you say them out loud.

I was right. That didn’t cheer me up.