Every New Year's Day since I was about 7- or 8-years old, my father and I would sit down, veg out, and watch football. Through the years, especially since the inception of the BCS, while the quantity of bowl games has increased, the number of New Year's Day games has decreased, and with these changes, the excitement for that day has decreased as well. Perhaps it also has to do with a drastic increase of televised games during the course of the regular season. Twenty years ago, there weren't games being played all day every Saturday on ESPN 2, ESPNU, Fox Sports, Vs., Gameplan, etc. In any case, while there's still some excitement in seeing the Rose Bowl and other such games on New Year's Day, it's definitely not at the level it was, and due to this, I'm especially glad there will be a change coming next year. While I've always been a playoff proponent for college football, I don't think it could come at a better time. It's time for something new in the sport. It's time to generate a new level of excitement for fans all across the country. It's time for fans everywhere to be able to look forward to the top four teams battling it out in a playoff around New Year's Day as opposed to watching North Texas and UNLV and pretending to be intrigued.
I love music and enjoy hitting the bar(s) over the weekend, so naturally, when the mood strikes me, I've never been coy about playing some songs on the jukebox. This past Thursday, a friend of mine turned 50, so several friends of her's, including myself, all met up to celebrate the occasion. At around 9:30, a friend of mine and I both chipped in $5 to play some songs on the jukebox. Four hours and 231 skips later, we gave up on hearing the songs we had selected, and went home knowing we had just wasted $5. This wasn't the first time such a thing had happened to me (and many others), and due to that, I'll be boycotting jukeboxes. Why? The scam known as TouchTunes. You see, here's how the plot typically breaks down. A person (or group of people) downloads the TouchTunes app on his/her phone, consumes one too many adult beverages, and due to this, has less care for spending extra money to hear the songs of their choosing right NOW. That's the thing with TouchTun
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