Putting USC football fans in their place

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Sports fans are an ornery bunch. For evidence, check out Onepeat.com. It’s a Web site devoted to raising $10,000 to erect a billboard near the USC campus expressly to piss off USC football fans. How? By reminding them that their team was not, in fact, going for its third straight national title in this year’s Rose Bowl, as many in the media had mistakenly claimed. After the 2003 season, it was LSU that was awarded the official BCS championship, while USC was No.

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