A Little March Madness May Contribute to Sanity

This year's NCAA Basketball Tournament has been especially unique. There's a real possibility that all #1 seeds will make the Final Four which has never happened before. A team that went 0-16 in their conference two years ago (Texas A&M) is still alive. Well, I'm going to go through some things about the tournament so far. Let's rock this bitch!

-CBS comes back from break with a Fall Out Boy song. Way to go CBS, welcome to 2006.

-Literally after 15 seconds of one first round game CBS switches to another one. After, I spend the next 10 minutes trying to find the other game and when I did it wasn't in HD. What's the deal CBS? Can't afford those HD cameras in each region?

-Somehow Greg Gumble doesn't bring up during three halftime shows that Kellogg picked Stanford to win. In case you didn't know Stanford was losing by 50 at one point. Gumble was probably to engorged with his sandwich to notice (if a camera adds 10 pounds he must have had 20 on him).

-No player this year has a mustache and I'm disapointed. I don't care if a cop mustache, a porn mustache or an Adam Morrison 'stache that a player grew because he lost a bet, WE NEED IT!

-Danny Ainge sitting next to Kevin Durant's mom in the stands was classic. He had the "Believe Me This is Just a Huge Coincidence" face going. It was like it was an extra feature on the "Blue Chips" DVD.

-If I wanted someone to host my studio show I'd pick James Brown in a heartbeat. But to call a basketball game? Not so much. There's a flow to basketball games that announcers just have to get used to. Years ago NBA fans had to suffer through the Bob Costas/Al Micheals Era, so I guess it's fair that NCAA fans have to get through the JB Era.

-The Big Ten started out so well in the tourney this year. To bad the only team left now is Ohio State and they were a flagrant foul call away from possibly losing that game. Let's face it Illinois was probly the last team in, Purdue was facing an Arizona team in a down season (Indiana was also facing a team in a down season, Gonzaga), Wisconsin should have been a 4 seed at best, and if Marquette's best player wasn't sitting on the bench who's to say Michigan State would have won. Before the tournament I was 50-50 on who was worse, the Big Ten or the Pac-10. I just hope OSU gets knocked out soon so Big Ten fans will just have to watch the Women's Tournament for their defense and fundamentals.



-The Hanes commercial with Micheal Jordan and Kevin Bacon bothers me. What the hell is going on with this commercial? Why them? What do they have in common? Why does it kinda make it seem like they're dating? And why is Jordan slumming in underwear ads with the guy from "Tremors"? Doesn't he have enough money? I'll be honest: this commercial freaks me out.

CBS NCAA ADD

Hedonism defined is, a devotion (especially a self-indulgent one) to pleasure

And as I lay all day on my parent’s plush couch watching a TV that would be considered a god to all southern Venezuelans, watching every first round game of the NCAA tournament in high definition, meanwhile surfing the web with wireless high speed internet so that I can keep uptotheminute with all 13 of my brackets.

The word Hedonism comes to mind.

As of now I have only had Cinnamon Toast Crunch to eat today, and have tried to limit my consumption of fluids.

Anyway, currently I am watching the latest attempt of a 16 trying to take on a 1. Central Connecticut State’s man zone isn’t quite up to par. And I am praying that VCU (11) will “upset” Duke (6). Duke is obviously not with their A game today, but Duke in the Tourney is like a Wolf with a Deer Leg, Even if the Wolf has a bad leg, it’s still a fucking wolf and can tear your face off If you let it….so make sure you hit the outlet passes.

I would be fully happy to loose every game in my brackets if Duke and Florida lost in the First round…I think I would be a much happier person


I wonder which school will serve as the first 1 seed to get beat by a 16, and I hope the game isn’t won on the foul line or by last-second-57-footer. But by a couple of mid major guards that sink 8 3 pointers apiece, so they finally can move the fuckin line back.

End Note: Did anyone else notice that CBS changed games exactly 13.07 seconds after tip-off of the first game. Quite possibly a new record.


(Knowing full well that my art major girlfriend’s one bracket will do better than all of mine).

Electric Turbo

18-Wheel Nomadic Transport Systems With Injuns

A couple of days after the last appearance of my favorite schools mascot, (Chief Illiniwek at the University of Illinois), i was driving to work and glanced to my right and saw this staring right at me.



(I'm not sure what i would have done if i could not find this image again. I can't fathom explaining it in detail, the picture is literally worth 1000 words.)


Now i'm not to sure how the indian people take it, but i don't believe this:



is any more offensive.


Things to take in to consideration:

-I'm not sure how the indian people viewed mass freight transport
-This may be a mural of a famous indian princess of mass freight transport
-Are the Indian people really the ones upset or offended by the mascots
-Is it really a bunch of really uber-liberals trying to save the world through the most diluted ways possible?

Why aren't people upset about the:

Bishops - with all the catholic nonsense these days.
Britons - C'mon
Centaurs - although i don't see any half man half horse's running around complaining
Corsairs - I don't even know what this is
Crusaders - Literally means "a warrior who engages in a holy war" there are 23 schools with this moniker. You can bet when the muslim population rises there will be more fallout over this.
Gauchos - anyone?
Grenadiers - borderline if you ask me
Ragin' Cajun's - Spelled correctly
Rebels - Sure because it's 1845
Sooners - aka cheaters




What do you think?

E.T.