Enough of these little distractions -- two wars, an economy in meltdown, Mexico going to heck in a handbasket -- Congress is finally ready to tackle the most-pressing issue of our time.
How we choose our college football national champion.
The U.S. Senate subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy, and consumer rights announced that it wants to take a look a look at the much-maligned Bowl Championship Series. The BCS may raise antitrust concerns, it says, because some conferences -- like the Big Ten, the Pac 10 and the SCC -- receive automatic bids while other conferences don't.
The senator spearheading the hearings is Utah Republican Orrin Hatch.
Hatch has a little skin in the game, as they say. His Utah Utes went undefeated last season, but were bypassed in favor of Oklahoma and Florida for a berth on the national title game.
And here I was worried about my 401(k).
In this same vein, I want to see Sen. Amy Klobuchar call hearings into Cowboys wide receiver Drew Pearson's obvious pass interference against the Vikings' Nate Wright in the 1975 NFC playoffs. I mean, since the Senate has the time and nothing better to do.
