The Utah Legislature passed a last-minute bill to eliminate the 2010 Legislative Session and purchase Utah football season tickets for all legislators and their families.
“We felt that in these trying times, it is our responsibility to focus on what really matters8212;replacing the corrupt BCS system,” said Rep. Julie Fisher, R-Fruit Heights.
The bill allows the legislators to attend home and away games September through January. The lull between the Utes’ final game at the end of November and the beginning of bowl games in early January would be spent drafting plans for a national college playoff system and petitioning the NCAA to consider said plans.
Rep. Jim Bird, R-West Jordan, said the reason for the decision was two-fold.
“We need to devote our energies to supporting our great football team and taking down the NCAA’s system that has oppressed them,” he said. “Also, this completely eliminates our need to stay at the Capitol until close to midnight on the last night of the session.”
Sen. Scott Jenkins, R-Plain City, agreed.
“The last night of the (2009) session, we were there until almost 11 p.m., and for what?” he asked. “We passed a bill about making cell phones illegal and made some changes to an education credit tax bill thing. If I’m going to be getting home past midnight, I want to be stumbling drunk and still giddy from seeing the Utes stomp all over BYU.”
The bill also advises that legislators attend athletic events in the SEC in order to see exactly “what they’ve got that we don’t.”
Editor’s note8212;This story is not real. Happy April Fools’ Day!
