Who won the Super Bowl for the 2004 season?
It might take you a few moments to remember, unless you're a New England fan.
Who won the 2004 NBA title, or the World Series, or the NCAA men's basketball championship?
If you lead any sort of a life and you don't waste valuable brain space on useless sports lists - guilty as charged - you'd probably need your entire lunch break to come up with the Detroit Pistons, Boston Red Sox, and UConn Huskies, and only after you looked up at least one of the three.
Every week there's something big happening in the sports world, pumped up by a relentless, memory-blurring news cycle that marches from one major event to the next. How disposable are sports titles in today's day and age? Give this an honest run.
Pull up the stopwatch on your phone and hit Start ... now.
Name the four teams that played in the 2011 NCAA Final Four.
It shouldn't be that hard. After all, it happened just two months ago and it was supposedly the biggest sporting event in America next to the Super Bowl.
The BCS "presidential oversight committee" - which includes several school presidents, led by Penn State's Graham Spanier playing the role of Greg Marmalard - is trying to unring the bell of the 2004 college football season, the 2005 Orange Bowl and the 2006 Rose Bowl, but instead just put a bright, shiny, "hey, look at me" sign on the USC teams that won the 2004 national title and lost to Texas in an epic title game following the 2005 season.
Just like Reggie Bush's 2005 Heisman campaign will forever stand out because of the controversy that ensued, the BCS has unnecessarily called attention to an era of Trojan football that'll now be even more unique and even more memorable than it already was.
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