FUCK
March Madness! Yes!
March Madness is sort of like the holiday season, instead you can only let yourself down instead of your friends and family. Everyone gets all excited about it, even people who don't really watch college hoops. I liken this to Jewish people getting excited about Christmas, because that seems like a politically correct and accurate thing for me to do. But nobody really cares, so whatever! Office pools! Brackets! Upsets! Fun stuff! And the women have one of their own! Why not! It's just the best.
Anyway, it's about 8 hours or so since The Madness began, and my Primary Bracket is already getting pretty destroyed. Not a surprise! This year's Official March Madness Bad Omen was when at about 12:10 pm, aka exactly 10 minutes before the tipoff of MARCH MADNESS, a couple of cable guys and for some reason a Northeastern Police Officer decided they need to install the "new cable" in our room. So, that was pretty cool. Following that, I settled in to watch BC club Pacific in its underrated face, and BC jumped out to a nice comfortable A Lot to A Little lead, and all was good in the world. So I decided, what the heck, why not fall asleep until 12 seconds after the game is supposed to end. Watching television is a lot of work, and even the most dedicated among us need a break occasionally. So then I woke up and it was tied! At the end of regulation! What the fuck! So I went with my gut and fell asleep again, until after the second overtime when everything was safe and BC had remembered that they were a lot better than Pacific and I still had all of my Elite Eight intact. Also I hadn't slept in like 22 hours leading up to the game, but this isn't a contest.
Fortunately this year's theme seems to be "Everyone hates their picks and is wrong about everything" so I think I'm still in decent shape compared to the rest of the country. I got like 40% of my picks wrong from the first flurry of games, but somehow I'm still doing better than like 65% of all the humans who signed up for the ESPN Friggin Bracket Challenge. So I guess that just means most people are complete idiots! Hope perserveres! Also, sorry Tennessee but now everyone outside of Tennessee hates you. Knocking off a 15 seed with a buzzer beater! What a bunch of jerks.
Ok, continual updates throughout the tourney as my 3 markedly different brackets all somehow fail to be even close to accurate. Brackurate? This is clearly going to end badly.
March Madness is sort of like the holiday season, instead you can only let yourself down instead of your friends and family. Everyone gets all excited about it, even people who don't really watch college hoops. I liken this to Jewish people getting excited about Christmas, because that seems like a politically correct and accurate thing for me to do. But nobody really cares, so whatever! Office pools! Brackets! Upsets! Fun stuff! And the women have one of their own! Why not! It's just the best.
Anyway, it's about 8 hours or so since The Madness began, and my Primary Bracket is already getting pretty destroyed. Not a surprise! This year's Official March Madness Bad Omen was when at about 12:10 pm, aka exactly 10 minutes before the tipoff of MARCH MADNESS, a couple of cable guys and for some reason a Northeastern Police Officer decided they need to install the "new cable" in our room. So, that was pretty cool. Following that, I settled in to watch BC club Pacific in its underrated face, and BC jumped out to a nice comfortable A Lot to A Little lead, and all was good in the world. So I decided, what the heck, why not fall asleep until 12 seconds after the game is supposed to end. Watching television is a lot of work, and even the most dedicated among us need a break occasionally. So then I woke up and it was tied! At the end of regulation! What the fuck! So I went with my gut and fell asleep again, until after the second overtime when everything was safe and BC had remembered that they were a lot better than Pacific and I still had all of my Elite Eight intact. Also I hadn't slept in like 22 hours leading up to the game, but this isn't a contest.
Fortunately this year's theme seems to be "Everyone hates their picks and is wrong about everything" so I think I'm still in decent shape compared to the rest of the country. I got like 40% of my picks wrong from the first flurry of games, but somehow I'm still doing better than like 65% of all the humans who signed up for the ESPN Friggin Bracket Challenge. So I guess that just means most people are complete idiots! Hope perserveres! Also, sorry Tennessee but now everyone outside of Tennessee hates you. Knocking off a 15 seed with a buzzer beater! What a bunch of jerks.
Ok, continual updates throughout the tourney as my 3 markedly different brackets all somehow fail to be even close to accurate. Brackurate? This is clearly going to end badly.
posted by Alex G at 8:35 PM
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