Courtesy of Dan Boone and T.O. Sports
1. The Quarterback Can Be Tackled, Sacked, Rushed, Touched, and Brushed.
He is a player. He is one of 11 guys who plays football just like all the other players.
The NFL has protected its perfumed princes of the pocket to such a degree that it has taken away from the quality of the game.
2. College Players Seem To Enjoy the Game More.
The NFL has become the look-at-me league.
Players, making millions, dance after every simple tackle or catch.
Some players call press conferences to air individual complaints after each loss.
Some very well-paid players do not try on every play. They say it’s a business, just a business.
Some players seem like they could care less.
In college football, the players at least try on every play.
3. College Coaches Have Personalities.
Steve Spurrier says some stupid, albeit often funny, things.
Lane Kiffin came out verbally swinging in Tennessee.
Joe Paterno can be a grumpy old man.
Some college coaches appear mad or sad, angry or happy, sarcastic or mean, but at least, most coaches show a bit of emotion, unlike the coaching drones on the NFL sidelines.
The NFL coachbots are afraid to say anything the least bit interesting or controversial. They just drop the same staid sound bites week after week after week. Maybe the heavy hand of Goodell fills them with fear.
Or perhaps, like in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, they have all just been transformed into drones.
Different coaching personalities make for a variety of offenses and defenses. The NFL is a copycat league where innovation is seldom seen anymore.
4. College Teams Do Not Switch Cities.
Sure, sometimes they switch conferences, but it’s highly unlikely that Penn State will suddenly relocate to Los Angeles, or the Alabama Crimson Tide will move to Cleveland or USC to St. Louis.
Although, Joe Paterno would be a hit in La La Land.
5. Natural Rivalries.
The NCAA has messed this up a bit.
Penn State doesn’t play Pittsburgh, and Nebraska doesn’t play Oklahoma every year, but generally, teams play their natural rivals annually.
Which begs the question, why doesn’t the NFL have the New York Jets and Giants play every year? Why not these matchups: the 49ers and Raiders, the Steelers and Eagles, the Cowboys and Texans, and the Chiefs and Rams?
Well, okay, an annual Rams and Chiefs game would actually be viewed as cruel and unusual punishment in Missouri.
6. College Football Has No Greed-Driven Personal Seat License Scams or a Preseason with Full-Priced Games.
The personal seat license is perhaps the most vile, greedy creature ever spawned in the history of sport.
And the NFL and its twisted accountants bore the beast.
Then they added the full-priced preseason tickets to twist the financial price even further.
Have they no shame?
Nope, guess not.
Washington Redskins owner Danny Snyder just laid off four more groundskeepers to prove he is suffering in this economy, too.
7. Giant Egos.
The NFL seems overwhelmed with monster me-me-me ego men.
Look at Terrell Owens.
Look at Brett Favre playing “Mississippi Hamlet.”
To quarterback or not to quarterback, that is the question?
Look at Ray Lewis doing the look-at-me pregame dance.
No, on second thought, don’t look.
8. Tradition and Atmosphere.
College football has the more exciting traditions and rivalry games.
Since free agency has made the NFL a mercenary league, what little tradition some teams had has disappeared.
It’s gone in a puff of smoke. It’s musical chairs year after year. Players are as interchangeable as cheap car parts.
College football has mostly outdoor stadiums with better tailgating, student sections, bands, and mad-eyed mascots.
9. Defense.
In college football, defense is still allowed.
In the NFL, the quarterback is untouchable. The receivers are “unbumpable” and protected. Due to liberal holding rules, it’s mostly wrestling on the line of scrimmage.
The NFL has become pass, pass, pass, and protect the glamor boy at quarterback at all costs.
Scoring, the NFL bigwigs believe, brings ratings which brings money, which makes them happy.
Soon, the offense will have 14 players, and the defense only 10. And the quarterback will have armed bodyguards.
10. Cheerleaders.
I’ve to go with the college cheerleaders. Some of the NFL ladies, while obviously striking, have had almost as much plastic surgery as Cowboy owner Jerry Jones.
Natural girls, like natural grass, are much better.
Some extremely cheap NFL teams, like the tightwad Chicago Bears banning the Honey Bears, have eliminated cheerleaders altogether.
Shame on them.
11. Rabid Refereeing.
Sometimes, in college football, some refereeing crews are extremely biased towards one particular team.
Sometimes, some crews, who work for conferences, seem determined to give one team a victory in order to better the conference’s overall postseason hopes.
Some college crews just like home cooking.
Still, college football officiating is generally better than the NFL, where the zebras sometimes seem to want to be the stars of the game.
How many NFL games are interrupted by a constant flow of penalties?
How many times do you see the zebra more than you see the team’s stars?
They want their faces on television, too. They want control of the game.
After all, the game is about the refs and the rules.
So what does the NFL do?
It adds more rules.
With more rules to protect the quarterback, the NFL gave the zebras a chance to make more game-making or game-breaking plays.
What fan wants the zebra to be the star of the show?
Final Perspective
If the NCAA could only bury the BCS, shed the greedy ties that bind conferences to bowls, and institute a playoff, then it would stand head and shoulders above the NFL.
So, come on boys, how about a playoff?
This playoff’s ratings would make the NFL blush?
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