Stop the insanity

What do college football bowl games and entertainment awards shows have in common.

There are way too many of them.

Pretty soon, you'll have to be a pretty sorry entertainer or musician to NOT win an award somewhere.

It's like there are awards shows being created for the sake of awards shows. They are being created so that everyone ... particularly the big name entertainers ... can have some kind of accolade to attach to their resumes.

Case in point. Easton Corbin was nominated for Best New Artist for the CMA or the ACM ... it's hard to remember. It doesn't matter.

He didn't win.

Well, the other night at the American Country Awards he was named the Breakthrough Artist of the Year. Same award, just a different wrapper. It's hard for me to wrap my brain around the concept that Easton Corbin wasn't good enough to win the best new artist for one awards show criteria but was in another.

Carrie Underwood lost out on Entertainer of the Year awards at the Country Music Association awards. She was named Entertainer of the Year at the American Country Awards. Now, some of these are fan-voted awards and some are not.

But, all of the awards seem to carry the same weight.

Remember when the Grammy Awards used to be the be all end all. Man, if you won a Grammy, that was really something.

In some cases, it was enough to say you were Grammy-nominated. It was good just to be nominated for a Grammy. Now, there are artists who are placing their American Music Awards, their American Country Awards, their Country Music Television belt buckles, their MTV video awards, their VH1 awards, their Country Music Association awards, their ESPY awards and all other awards they can secure right alongside the Grammy.

OK ... that was a test. I wanted to see if everyone caught that. The ESPY isn't a music award. It's the waste of television time from ESPN every year when they hand out the sports awards.

I don't know. It would seem a Super Bowl championship, an NBA title, a Stanley Cup, the World Series trophy, a PGA major tournament championship or any other championship for that matter would carry a little more weight that some stupid statue. But I digress.

What happened to prestige? Back in the day, there were four pretty big-time awards shows. The Grammies, the Oscars, the Emmies and the Tonies.

Of course the Tony awards recognize Broadway performances in musicals and whathaveyou. It's the best stuff not very many people have ever heard of.

Now, the Emmy awards have even been fragmented. You have the daytime Emmys that honor talk shows and soap operas.

Oh well. I guess it's just everyone making sure they get theirs.

What are ya gonna do?