# 'When We Were Kings' SUCKED (&etc re: sports videos)

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**Created:** [September 9, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-we-were-kings-sucked-etc-re-sports-videos/263723 "2004-09-09T02:42:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2004, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-we-were-kings-sucked-etc-re-sports-videos/263723/21 "2004-09-11T04:21:41Z")

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> College football. By coincidence I happened to be living in Athens Georgia when a fellow named Herschel Walker propelled the Athens Bulldogs to the championship via something called the Sugar Bowl, I think it was in Louisiana and by that time there was some new kind of bowl deelie whereby for that year the Sugar Bowl was gonna determine the overall champ and the Bulldogs got the invite and the win. I have more appreciation for college football (not pro, that bores me) than for baseball and this would be fun to watch.

Incorrect about the “new kind of bowl deelie…” Back then, the bowls were largely locked into their conferences and the Sugar Bowl got the title game by default: the SEC champ, who had to play in the Sugar Bowl regardless of their ranking, happened to be #1 (Notre Dame was ranked 7th, iirc).

It wasn’t until the late nineties, and the BCS, was there an attempt to finish out the college season with a battle between #1 and #2.

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