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Here Is The Only BCS Championship Game Coverage You Need

Jimmie | January 7, 2010 | Comments (0)

We are just a few short hours from the start of the BCS Championship game and, just as he said he would be, Stacy McCain is on the ground in Pasadena covering the whole event. I’ve been enjoying his dispatches even though I don’t care a whit for college ball for a couple reasons. First, Stacy is a heck of a good writer and he has a knack for finding stories I guarantee you won’t read if you stick only to the usual journalistic suspects. Second, he’s not there as a detached observer. He’s an unabashed Crimson Tide fan and all of his reports are slathered heavily with his fanboy enthusiasm. I know that some folks would frown on that but it gives his posts an almost tangible verve that is lacking from the generally-boring MSM coverage. Stacy is there because he very badly wanted to show you what the game looks like from a fan’s point of view (and let me say here that if you haven’t hit his tip jar, he could use the help, because he went on his own dime).

Here is a bit of his official pre-game report at The American Spectator:

The decision to match the best teams from the West Coast and the Midwest ended the proud boast of Alabama’s fight song, “Remember the Rose Bowl we’ll win.” The game tonight (8 p.m. ET, ABC) will therefore not be the Rose Bowl — eighth-ranked Ohio State won that game 26-17 over No. 7 Oregon last week — but Tide fans outside the stadium didn’t care. Neither did fans of the No. 2 Texas Longhorns, who were unperturbed by the fact that ‘Bama is a four-point favorite to win the collegiate football championship.

“We wish y’all luck tomorrow — just not too much luck,” Texas attorney Ron Dickens told a Crimson Tide fan yesterday outside the stadium shortly after the ‘Horns arrived for their pre-game walk-through.

Texas quarterback Colt McCoy may not be in tears when tonight’s game ends, but like Alabama fans, the Longhorns didn’t come this far to lose — not even to a team whose star running back Mark Ingram just collected the first Heisman Trophy in Crimson Tide history. Ask any Texas fan and they’ll remind you that four years ago the USC Trojans — led by Heisman winner Reggie Bush — were defeated 41-38 by the boys in burnt orange right here in Pasadena.

He even throws in some video backup in this post and this one in which you can see the folks he interviewed for his AmSpec article. That’s good journalism right there and a great example of why the New Media is eating the MSM’s lunch across the board. Who else is mixing it up with the fans, going to press conferences, and showing you what it’s like to be a fan on the inside? No one, that’s who. And look, a Smart Girl!

So hit his tip jar. Please. We need to encourage journalism like this.

(…and roll tide.)