The first day of 2004 was greatly enhanced by Barb's wonderful ham and Jul Kage and squash soup. As for the main attraction, the bowl games: surprisingly, the most exciting one of them all was the Capital One Bowl (ne the Citrus Bowl and still played there), in which Purdue almost succeeded in a come-from-behind drive to upend Georgia. (Loyalties changed hands at least once during the course of that game.) As for the Rose, Michigan made the mistake of playing a real conservative, short-yardage offense against a USC team that made humongous bomb passes the centerpiece of their offense. Hence, Michigan got its poor Wolverine ass handed to it. Now on to the Orange, where the two teams I care the least about in college football (Miami? Florida State? America, this is your future!) went at each other. Florida State wins the horribleness contest (on top of the usual football-crazed-yahooing-redneck factor) on the strength of their good-old-boy maintenance of aint-them-Injuns-rowdy-when-they-liquored-up traditions like the chop and the 1935 Hollywood authentic Injun music that accompanies it. So Florida Miami won, good for them.