The NCAA set forth another set of new rules today, the biggest newsmaker of which was prohibiting messages on eye black. The eye black messaging gained prominence the past few years thanks to the non-stop, lovey-dovey Tim Tebow closeups of CBS, which always included TT's favorite Bible verse o' the week.
The crusty old man in me thinks this recent, TV-driven phenomenon was, indeed, annoying as hell. The other side of me thinks the NCAA is starting to resemble the Nazi propaganda unit known as the NFL. Criminy, so the kids put something on their eye black. Who cares?
Reggie Bush liked to promote his home area code which, since the advent of cell phones and additional area codes meant almost nothing.
Last year OSU quarterbackTerrelle Pryor, of course, infamously dedicated some of his eye black to the saintly Mike Vick.
There is no rule against being stupid. Well, I guess there is now.
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