There's No Place Like 3rd Place

I didn't really know they still for some reason played a Pro Bowl in the NFL, but this guy has a suggestion:

But what if there was a football game played during this week that wasn’t between hastily thrown-together teams? What if there was a game this week that wasn’t an exhibition game? I have a proposal: The week before the Super Bowl, the two teams that lost their conference championship games should play against each other in an official NFL third-place game.

It's an interesting thought, though one that has no chance in hell of happening. The last thing NFL players want to do is play another "real" game in which they could get hurt that pretty much means nothing. 

But it does make us think about what I thought 7 years ago:

Some people see March 30, 1981 as the day President Reagan got shot. I see it as the final game Jeff Lamp, Lee Raker and Terry Gates ever played for UVa, beating LSU in the last NCAA Final Four consolation game ever played, somewhat perversely becoming the last team ever to win it's final tourney game without winning the tournament.

Looking on it now, kinda surprised they haven't brought this game back, as I'd be another game to squeeze $$$$$ from tv. You got people sitting around waiting for the Monday night game, why not play the consolation game on Sunday?

I really don't understand why this hasn't happened.

"But Xmastime", you say in the voice of Craig “Ironhead” Heyward from those soap commercials (RIP), “didn't you meet your hero Jeff Lamp?"

Sigh. Yes I did faithful readers, yes I did.