I'm going to hang them not only all over Spectrum Stadium, where the team plays its home games, but everywhere else on campus as well. In the dorms, the cafeteria, the lecture halls, the library, student and teacher lounges, the gym, and anyplace else I see fit.
Not only that, I'm going to distribute them all over Orlando, our home town, so the locals can proudly fly them from houses, businesses, apartments, condos, the post office, police and fire stations, and even Disney World not far away.
Why would I do that? Because regardless of what the pundits and pollsters claim, our team is the true national champions of football this year.
After all, we were the only one to go undefeated throughout the entire season. A perfect 13-0.
And I don't want to hear any nonsense about how we played lesser competition than some of the "big boys". We just knocked off Auburn, in convincing fashion no less, in the Peach Bowl. Though the difference was only a touchdown, our team was clearly superior throughout. Yes, the very same Auburn team that not long ago defeated not one, but two #1 ranked teams at the time in Alabama and Georgia.
No matter which team emerges from the 4-way pseudo-championship series (Bama, Clemson, Georgia, or Oklahoma), they will have suffered at least one loss along the way, and perhaps even two.
We went unbeaten and untied all year. Period.
It might just be the NCAA itself would protest us flying such banners when we weren't officially dubbed champions. But that's their problem. What are they going to do? Sue us? Put us on probation? Good luck with that and bring it on if they must.
We're proudly going to display such banners every which way regardless.
It remains obvious that the pollsters (and TV people) wanted to bury us so we couldn't possibly rise to the level of getting a fair shot at playing for the championship. How else to explain they would never even let us crack the Top Ten, let alone get one of the four invites to the Big Dance? We went into this Peach Bowl as only #12 in the country. Given our record, how could that be remotely fair?
And here's the thing. Between the above-mentioned Tide, Dawgs, Tigers, and Sooners, three of them are going to lose -- AGAIN -- before this shooting match is all over.
When all is said and done, let the eventual so-called champion gets its trophy and celebrate. But if we don't wind up at least #2 in the national polls, then something is horribly wrong and you know the fix was in all along.
However, in the interest of fairness and getting along, we might be open to a compromise. If the final polls show us as #2 in the country, we'll still going to fly those banners all over the stadium, campus, and town proclaiming ourselves the rightful national champions. But we'll put an asterisk on them.
As the man used to say on the infamous game show -- Deal, or No Deal?
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