![Watching a small group scrimmage, Ben Lundt, St. Louis City SC goalkeeper and founder of Lundt Pro Soccer Training, shouts words of encouragement to players on Sunday, April 26 n the Lafayette grass soccer field. “The idea behind [the event] was to bring the professional soccer players closer to the community because usually people only get to see us on TV or in the stadium. [Families] actually having the opportunity to have their kids on the field with us is the most important aspect,” Ben Lundt said.](https://lancerfeed.press/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_6823-1200x800.jpg)
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The biggest joke in sports isn’t LeBron James and his play in the fourth quarter, although I’ve never met a LeBron joke I didn’t like.
No, that title is reserved for this year’s Alabama-LSU BCS “championship” game and the ridiculous amount hype placed on college football as a whole. Even with the Rams being a punching bag for the past few years, the NFL is the only form of football I can take seriously.
What’s funny is that it took two spectacular college games for this to become clear. The Rose Bowl and Fiesta Bowl proved that Oregon and Oklahoma State could play with anyone in the country; Wisconsin and Stanford are right up there after both losing in the final minute.
But none of that matters because it’s been decided by computers and voters decided that the game between LSU and Alabama will decide the national championship.
If LSU wins, the Tigers will be 13-0 and I guess people will say that makes them the best team in America. The fact is that they never had to play Oklahoma State or Stanford, who are just as good as Alabama. If they hadn’t already beaten Oregon this season, I would say the Ducks deserve a shot just so we can see the first holographic uniforms in the history of sports.
If Alabama wins, get me a bucket. It makes me sick to imagine my Crimson-clad friends celebrating an Alabama victory like it actually decided something other than the SEC championship.
The point is that it’s shocking how many people will take this game seriously and declare the winner a national champion. I don’t understand why so many people think college football is the greatest thing on earth when it blatantly excludes every team outside of the south.
Until the BCS stops giving bonus points to SEC teams or there’s a playoff, every season will end with the SEC champion playing the next best team in a phony championship game that everyone will still eat up. If that next best team happens to play in the SEC, then so be it.
That’s because, apparently, football doesn’t exist north of Tennessee.
The BCS is no way to decide a championship, and BCS without “championship” is just BS.
How appropriate.
