GEAUX TIGERS!!!!

National Champions again!!! First team to win 2 BCS national championships! Brian and I had such a great night. Betsy (his sister, who lives in Manhattan) babysat so we could actually go somewhere without worrying about bedtimes and feedings and hauling kids, strollers, diapers, bottles, snacks, toys, books, etc. We went to a bar in NYC where the local LSU alumni association hangs out. Honestly, I don't think we could have had more fun if we had gone to the actual game. The place was PACKED with LSU fans. The DJ played the LSU band songs after every down, so it felt like we were there, and fun music during every commercial break. Such a great sense of camaraderie - high fives with total strangers, dancing and singing/yelling at the top of our lungs, staying out too late (did I mention we didn't have the kids with us?!?!?!!), drinking a little too much (and we had a babysitter?!?!?!?). So, now we have to find a babysitter every Saturday next football season so we can do that again.

I know there's controversy about the BCS and whether we deserved to be there and all that crap. But we played by the rules, got to the national championship game, and dominated against the #1 team that supposedly had the #1 defense (yeah, right). Les Miles said it best - we went to the Sugar Bowl last year and didn't make a single complaint about whether we should have been playing for the national title. Unlike some whiners this year (ahem, Mark Richt). I have tons of respect for Georgia -- I'd love to have a playoff against them! Maybe one day there will be a playoff system. And while we're at it, let's add a BCS rule that OSU is never allowed in the national championship game again. Until then, shut up and let us bask in the glow of being national champions again!!!!!! Geaux Tigers!!!!

(by the way, I stole that pic from deadspin -- full disclosure to keep those copyright police at bay since SO many people are going to be viewing this)