Gridiron Changing Any Given Saturday

Wow, let it now be known, Football, especially the University and College variety of the CIS and NCAA, is not a fixed phoney of a sport. The attack of Mac by a new cross county rival Guelph wasn't the only upstart underdogging, as Western wacked Queen's quarterfinal last week too, but this week both took out Laurier and Ottawa respectively in the semis. That would be an unranked Gryphons hosting a Number 10 ranked Mustangs for the 100th Yates Cup next week, the good folk up the road at Alumni Stadium deserves this rematch of the 1992 game, which featured a U of G 45-10 burning of UWO at the Skydome.

Powers that be have been shook and shocked, Ottawa, Laurier, Queen's and even the old Yates Cup powerhouse Mac have now been shown the door in this conference this year, this makes next year a brand new year for a brand new era somewhere someway in Ontario. Next door, Michigan escaped out of East Lansing the Spartans of Michigan State with less than 3 minutes, Big Ten is heading towards another Wolverine title fight against the Ohio State Buckeyes at the Big House. Even the Professionals in the NFL are getting into the excitement, the New England Patriots looking to stay on top tomorrow against the Indianapolis Colts in the battle of the unbeaten, with the CFL going into the playoffs.

Yeah, screw the World Series and Baseball, even Basketball and especially Hockey too, Football is all that is left that is pure in sport today. Save Track and Field of course, not only is that sport great for training, but truly merges the scholarly aspects of academics and athletics together like no other sport I know. Football is Athletics, Athletics is Football and both are one very important party of Life.