Not to pick on Auburn, but they just happen to have just won the BCS title this year. This trend of passing pointless congressional resolutions regarding sports events has actually been around for quite some time.
Lawmakers in Alabama passed a resolution honoring the Auburn Cam Newtons for winning the BCS national title this season. They did it because, well, it's important, by golly. Or something to that effect.
The much esteemed House Speaker Mike Hubbard, had this to say, "It's pretty significant to win a national championship."
Well that's a great reason to waste a bunch of time and a bunch of taxpayers' money, right?
''Auburn's thrilling victory was the culmination of a perfect season that garnered numerous team and individual awards for players and coaches, including National Coach of the Year honors for Coach (Gene) Chizik and the Heisman Trophy for Cameron Newton, perhaps the greatest offensive player in Auburn's rich football history," says the resolution.
None of that whole last paragraph means crap to anyone. I just have to shake my head when I hear about stuff like this. Seems about a dumb and pointless as giving Cam Newton his own holiday.
[ AL.com ]
