The Futon Report

I just installed a piece of software (successfully! It’s like I do this for a living or something) that enables the Futon Report to be seen much better on mobile phones. I, for one, would never care to see it like that since, like church and state, there needs to be a “wall of separation” between phone and Internet. For the heathens who believe otherwise, however, the Futon Report ought to display better.

Inform me if the site shows up improperly on your mobilyphone, and your response will be addressed in 2-4 business days, or 4.5 nautical days.

The average shelf life of a Matt Sussman endeavor: four weeks. Anything that goes longer than that is bound to be some kind of a success. The BC Sports Treehouse Fort radio show began on November 26, 2007. One calendar year and 72 shows later, the show somehow exists and Tuffy, Charlie Doherty and I are still having fun doing it. Read more

Ray Bentley mentioned this during the Ball State-Western Michigan game (scroll to 10:06), but Boise State and Ball State really do need to play each other, assuming Ball State can beat Buffalo in the MAC Championship. The Mid-Major Championship. The BSU Bowl.

One problem though; they’ll probably have to play the game in Boise.

Pairing Boise State and Ball State may hinge on luring the Cardinals to Boise and the Dec. 30 Humanitarian Bowl, to which Ball State coach Brady Hoke already has expressed some aversion. He doesn’t relish meeting the Broncos in Boise, he said. To counter that concern, officials are working on sweetening the Humanitarian’s $550,000 monetary and ticket guarantee, designating Ball State as the dark-jerseyed home team and perhaps obliging Boise to make a regular-season return trip to Muncie, Ind.

Image by BlueTurf via FlickrSo, yeah, playing on the blue field would certainly favor the Broncos. They could also play the game in Detroit, but that’d favor Ball State, even though the ground is green and not red. They could play in Shreveport, which would benefit the Independence Bowl custodians since few will travel to that game.

Sidenote: anyone screaming “playoffs” at this point needs to remember that in a playoff system, these two teams probably wouldn’t play each other unless they were to, y’know, meet in the championship. Maybe if bowl tie-ins weren’t so conference-specific and conferences actually worked to pair interesting teams together, more people would like them.