Tis the season. There are so many bowl games now it’s hard to figure out which is what with who. I went to UTEP. They played (figuratively speaking) in the “New Mexico” Bowl against BYU. Seriously. The “New Mexico” Bowl? Is that the best name they can come up with? No big name sponsor? No fruit or vegetable or plant name attached to it? How about the Sadie’s Green Chile Bowl (Sadie’s is one of New Mexico’s finest dining establishments.) Even better how about the Tomisita’s Tamale Bowl? Tomisitas is my favorite restaurant in Santa Fe. The Tamales in red sauce are to die for. Top it off with a frozen blue margarita a bowl of green and pintos, a side of posole and that’s pretty much my wish for the last meal I want to eat before departing to the great Tamale Kitchen in the Sky. My point is, there are just way too many bowls. How many will you watch? 15? 10? 5? 1? None of the above? Let me know. I’m curious.

As for me, I taped the “New Mexico” Bowl. I saw the score before I deleted it. It brought back too many nightmares from those 82-6 beatings by BYU that UTEP had to endure during my days in college. I’m sure I’ll watch the one that isn’t really a national championship game, because they don’t have playoffs to get there, but they call it that anyway bowl. It’s the one with the team sponsored by Nike vs the team that Cam Newton went to because his father couldn’t get a higher bidder. The one that is too good to share New Years day with the other bowls so they move it to the second week of January so they ruin the student athletes entire Winter break.

That’s about the only one for me. Maybe the one LSU plays in because my brother Allan lives in Baton Rogue and Pete Maravich went there. I honestly don’t know who they are playing or in what corporate sponsored bowl the BCS saw fit to assign them to. Now if they ever blow up the BCS and go to a playoff system, it’s a whole other matter. I’d become one with the couch and wouldn’t move until it was over. Not even for Tamales. But, let’s face it, UTEP stands a better chance of beating BYU in football long before University presidents come to their senses and have playoffs. I’m convinced we could solve the whole federal budget crisis by just having the proceeds of the first ever college football playoffs go to paying it all off. But until then, we’re stuck with “New Mexico” bowls. Forgive me. But I think I’ll go buy some tickets to “True Grit”