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And just to follow up again. When the selection committee lets in teams with poor RPIs from "power conferences", like they did with Syracuse and Michigan this year, and they actually WIN GAMES, I'm sure in some way they believe that it justifies their tendency to select those teams. That sucks. That's why I like to see those teams get knocked out in the first round.

You're the one who made it political by saying "If the government gets involved (and it has ZERO business doing)". That IS a political statement, not a statement of objective fact. Because the objective fact is that the government does have that authority and has already used it (and it isn't a bad thing): seat belts, speed laws, drinking and driving, banning lead additives to gasoline...(the list goes on...and on...and on). Lead was banned in all products because it's a nervous toxin, that is especially damaging to the brain development of children. It wasn't consumers that got this done, it was an act of congress; after several years of testimony by scientists. Why shouldn't congress conduct an investigation at the very least? What does the NFL, or sports fans have to fear? Was banning lead in consumer products a political thing? I guess you could say that...but it was the right thing to do for the American people. To protect us, our health, and the health of our children. This doesn't need to be political, you just have to put away the misguided ideology that ALL regulation = bad, and no regulation = good; and make judgements on what the objective facts derived through the scientific process are.

I went ahead and highlighted the part that you missed.

I don't agree at all, and this is a philosophy derived from a political ideology. It's almost entirely the purpose of government to protect citizens from threats they may not know are there. That's done through regulation. Did the government do a bad thing by regulating the addition Lead to gasoline? Please: The government SHOULD consider regulation after doing a through investigation. The NFL sure as hell isn't going to do it. They have a direct vested interest in NOT investigating or regulating it.