Let's All Be Rational For A Sec...

Re: National Title "Game" (and I use that term incredibly loosely)
These are trying times down here in the Dirty South. A lot of folks with too much time on their hands and whacked-out priorities have been making a LOT of excuses for their football gods.
An exchange from the film "The Big Chill" spring to mind:
"I don't know anyone who could get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations. They're more important than sex."
"Ah, come on. Nothing's more important than sex."
"Oh yeah? Ever gone a week without a rationalization?"

Excellent question, Jeff Goldblum! Has anyone gone a whole week without rationalizing? I know Ol' Nathan hasn't. It's how we survive our shortcomings in life. It's how we learn from our mistakes. It's how a handful of nimrods make fortunes coming up with inspirational phrases to put on pictures of the Grand Canyon or kittens hanging from tree branches. People rationalize as to why they didn't get that promotion. They rationalize why their lovers leave them. And finally, they rationalize why,  at one point or another, we all  must shuffle off this mortal coil. And all of these understandable efforts of humanity to reason.

This Goldblum cat really has hid head on straight.

But in all my life and with all the excuses that I've made, I have never seen human beings go to such lengths to rationalize the loss of a football game. And because it's worth repeating, a football game... That you weren't even playing in!

LSU got jack-hammered by a bigger line, a quarterback playing the game of his career, and a coach on a mission.
And that is all. Those are the reasons that the LSU Tigers lost the BCS championship game to Alabama.
There may very well be some tension between LSU coach Les Miles and back-up quarterback Jarrett Lee. There may have also been a fight amongst the players the week of the game. And yes, the players may indeed have gone out to see the new Mark Wahlberg film "Contraband". And while that last one may very well be reason enough to kill one's self, none of these contributed to a 21-0 defeat at the gigantic paws of the Crimson tide.

I love my Tigers. And it runs deep. But as a fan-base, at this moment we are operating with a logic-deprivation commensurate with that of a child who lost his first short-goal pee-wee basketball game. There just has to be a reason we lost!!! I mean, of course, other than the basic reasoning that the better team won!!!

As one might imagine, I've shared this theory with some fellow Tigers over the last few days. And as you also might imagine, my thoughts were not received exceptionally well by the Tiger faithful. After a few of the conversations I felt like the LSU offensive line must have felt around 11:00 on Monday night.

That'll teach me to be rational.