CNN iReport

END THE BCS! In honor of one of my heroes and his recent successes in drawing both popular and congressional support in righting one fluke in our national financial system, I've decided to propose a solution to another one of society's mini-injustices. Many people agree that we should have a playoff in college football. However just as many or more feel that we are powerless in challenging the status quo. Even the leader of the free world can only sit on the sidelines and throw his opinion in the hat. We are however not powerless in all of this. For you see, the system that often ignores us, revolves around us entirely. We are the consumers. This whole wacky system revolves around the fact that we watch these games. We see these ads. We buy these products. And the circle of life continues. That's pretty much the formula. Only it doesn't have to be that way entirely. We can manipulate the system to give us what we want. In this instance that desire would be a playoff in NCAA football. It would give us resolution. And we don't even have to make a new law to do it.

The way it goes is this. Every game in which a BCS ranked team plays, we don't buy the products from the company of the first commercial that follows the first touchdown scored in that game. If it's a PSA or non-Fortune 500 company, we move onto the next commercial. I don't have cable myself, so I'll need help in finding out what ads run on the other games especially those only running in other areas. Just post what they were pushing. It's really that simple. If you don't really care about getting a resolution and are content in just watching whatever falls out and accepting whatever result of the BCS Sham-pionship is, then I understand. It really is hard work not buying Arby's or Keystone Light. I understand I run a very realistic chance of not being able to drink Coke for a while. The thought and caffeine are going to keep me up some nights. But you have to ask yourself next time you pull up to KFC if you'd rather have one more KFC Snacker or would you rather find out if your team really can hang with the best in the country. Every year. I'm not asking you to go on a hunger strike. I'm not asking you to picket or to chain yourself to a tree. I'm just asking you to speak up if something bothers you like it bothers me. Ballots and voters should decide elections and talent shows, not a national champion in a major sport. Gandhi and Dr. King used these methods to get their people freedom and respect. Surely, it could get us some simple precision in determining our best team.

Thoughts?

As a sidenote, we could use similar methods to fix other potential flaws in the system. For example, we pay for most of these schools with our tax dollars, I don't think it's so ridiculous to expect that your team's own games be guaranteed to broadcast for free in the own state of the school. Or does that sound unreasonable?

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