automobile stupidity

More on my horrific travel weekend and amazing fiance in later posts, but right now I need to talk about stupid people. I went to Chick-Fil-A for lunch today (They invented the chicken sandwich, you know.), and saw one of those House Divided vanity license plates on a gas-guzzling SUV. Normally I would ignore such a plate, however this one drew my eye. On the left side sat that familiar ugly red G for U[sic]GA. Opposite it on the right sat the almost equally ugly F adorned with Native American feathers and whatnot representing FSU. Let there be no mistake, these two schools sit alone atop my personal Most Hated College Sports Teams Ever list.

What's stupid about this plate is that these two schools are not rivals. The House Divided plate is reserved for rivalries like UF/FSU, GT/UGA, UM/OSU, Bama/Auburn, and Army/Navy. I'm not even sure if those two teams have played before. I'm sure they have, but they're certainly not rivals. They're not even in the same conference. I might as well go out and get a Providence/Arizona State license plate or a Tulane/Miami(FL) plate (dig deep for the irony, folks). I think people are taking this a little too far. Just get a bumper sticker, or even a flag.