More College Football is Good, So Washington Huskies' Fans Should Be All in on 24-Team Playoff

“Why do you hate football so much?”

I pulled myself away from aiming at the cue ball on a pool table at a long-since-gone sports bar called The Endzone along Highway 99 in Kent, Washington, and looked up to see if the old guy was talking to me.

I say “old,” but back in 1998, he was probably younger than I am now. He wore a Don James-style purple Huskies hat with a yellow “W,” and had the requisite 1990s goatee. He stared at me, awaiting my response. Turns out he’d heard my rant about college football bowl games. My buddies and I were in our mid-20s, back when we knew everything.

“Huh?” I asked.

“You said there are way too many bowl games,” he said. “Why do you hate football so much?”