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.
After its first week, I gave The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore a B+ grade. While I didn't think the show appeared to be perfect by any stretch of the imagination, I also liked the Daily Show meets Politically Incorrect vibe I got from it, and thought, with the proper adjustments, the show would indeed provide a great fill-in for The Colbert Report . In the show's succeeding weeks, however, I've been less impressed by it and think that if it doesn't make certain adjustments, it could be in jeopardy of losing many long-time viewers of the show's time slot. One major issue I think the show's had to this point is a lack of direction. It's been unable to decide whether it wants to be a comedy show with serious conversation sprinkled in or a serious show with comedy sprinkled in. It's almost as if the show's writers want to give The Nightly Show a Real Time with Bill Maher feel. The problem with that idea or format is the fact Real Time is an hour lon...
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