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Ah, yes, two great topics for the Thanksgiving dinner table (no, I will not be watching the Dallas or Detroit games today, but may catch some of the Giants/Broncos). This year, I noticed they started intermingling in even cooler ways.
As many of you may know, I'm a die-hard Bills fan, and there has been a movement underway since he was re-hired in December to can our moron of a former head coach, Dick Jauron. In October, a northern PA Bills fan launched a campaign to buy billboard advertising in the Buffalo area asking our owner, Ralph Wilson, to fire Jauron. He raised several thousand dollars over his website and a Facebook group, bought the billboard, and got it covered by ESPN, Sports Illustrated, the Sporting News, CBS Sports, FOX Sports, and other outlets.
Another fan created the now-famous FireDick t-shirts and pushed their sales over Facebook and Twitter. They even have several variations now:
If you haven't heard the wonderful news, last week Jauron was finally fired, I think in no small part because of efforts like these.
Earlier this week, I read that six college football fans had actually created a federal PAC to get the NCAA to change its flawed system from the BCS to a playoff system.
Playoff PAC is a federal political committee dedicated to establishing a competitive post-season championship for college football. The Bowl Championship Series is inherently flawed. It crowns champions arbitrarily and stifles inter-conference competition. Fans, players, schools, and corporate sponsors will be better served when the BCS is replaced with an accessible playoff system that recognizes and rewards on-the-field accomplishment. To that end, Playoff PAC helps elect pro-reform political candidates, mobilizes public support, and provides a centralized source of pro-reform news, thought, and scholarship.
The bad side of that is that one of them is the former Republican campaign finance counsel to McCain's campaign, and the other bad side is that they just hired Ari Fleischer to consult- so I would be cautious about giving- but I think it's cool nonetheless. I wonder what their theory of change even is to accomplish that at the congressional level, but I look forward to observing them.
Anyway, if you've got some sports fans in your family, and tonight Uncle Harry mocks your DFH blog-reading, or Grandma asks why you waste your time with your Facepage or Tweeter or whatever, ask them what they've done lately to change the sports world!
Happy Thanksgiving.
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