It's like adolescent kids trying to slow dance and walking all over each other's feet. Except without the hormones and awkwardness. Or friendliness, for that matter.The latest: USC and Arizona State have bumped their 2007 battle to Thanksgiving Day.
Thanksgiving.
That runs right up against the NFL's football monopoly. Hmm...
The reasoning is sound as the Pac-10 is looking to move all its rivalry games to Dec. 1 of next year, but it makes you wonder. The NFL has given NCAA football deference on Saturdays, electing to not schedule Saturday games until the regular season is over. But there's also been a gradual creep of NFL games into the midweek Thursday night slot (and sometimes other nights). That's long been the territory of college football.
For its part, college football is now scheduling games almost every day of the week not named Monday. A flurry of articles were published last year about this, suggesting that high school football is made to suffer most as middle aged adults are ditching the high school stadiums for the recliner, a six pack and a handful of NCAA games.
Can you feel the tension?
Oh, and in the photo the evil robot represents the NFL and the pretty girl represents the NCAA. That should be obvious but just in case...




