My bracket is ruined and I have Northern Iowa and St. Mary’s to blame. Those little sprites.
Now I have to try and follow Jody Diperna’s words of wisdom for a sports fan with a loser’s bracket. But rationalization has never been my strong point.
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It’s not written by me, but I like it a lot.
I also find this infuriating. Doesn’t help that I hate basketball. Now I hate it even more for costing me 20 dollars. What a joke. Cool vid though. Purple, you say? I will keep that in mind.
You’re lucky it only cost you $20. As you can see from the video above, it cost me my dignity.
In response to another comment. See in context »I have talked about N. Iowa all year, but sadly didn’t have the guts to pick them. So I suppose my bracket wins since I still have my championship winning team in the tournament. The third, and I suppose original, GK never posted him bracket so if he does now I call shenanigans. Guess I’m the true GK!
I’m not buying that. You may still have teams left, but I don’t know if you’ll ultimately win this thing (I mean come on, West Virginia?).
In response to another comment. See in context »Graham, truly I am sorry. I can feel your pain even from all the way up in the top 10.
It seems there’s something to your “color” theory. In my case I put my two favorite colors head-to-head in the finals (Duke Blue Devils and Syracuse Orange) and took orange to win (obviously).
Alas, your orange has failed you.
In response to another comment. See in context »[...] are some thoughts about the weekend passed, and the week ahead: * – Graham Kates is just as sad as me, but via video, which is more fun than whatever I wrote above. And if [...]
You know, the homer in me wanted to pick WVU over Kentucky. But I didn’t. (I also had Nova, K. State and Kansas in the Final Four.) Which just goes to show, I am a terrible predictor of things. Next year, I’m going to try the George Costanza method — whichever team my instinct tells me to pencil in, I will write in the opposite.
Anytime Costanza gets in the basketball conversation, it’s a victory. Well played.
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