But holy shit is it good for me. See I didn't attend Cornell. I guess if I normally had to pick a team in that particular game to root for it would have been Temple as I have family who attended and it is a local school, but none of those things trump the fact that I absolutely fucking despise the NCAA tournament.
As a sports fan in general you would think that I would be able to get into the spirit of the tournament. You would be wrong. And it's not even that I don't like basketball, which I don't, but that has nothing to do with why I hate the tournament specifically. It's that for a fucking month every god damn year all you hear about is MARCH MADNESS WOOOHOOO!!!!! It over runs every other thing going on in the sports landscape. Granted the only things really going on are the NBA and no one really give a shit about that until the playoffs, and the NHL which no one really gives a shit about, well, period. But there's still NFL free agency. There's spring training. There's Lance Armstrong referring to Tony Kornheiser with this quote: "Disgusting, ignorant, foolish. What a complete ... idiot." All because Kornheiser mentioned that it might not be such a bad idea to run over douchebag bicyclists when they act like they own the fucking road. Which, frankly, I think is a pretty decent resolution to an annoying fucking problem.
The thing is, I like to listen to sports talk radio during the day. Yes, I'm one of those guys. I don't call, I'm not one of those guys. I just like to listen. But when the NCAA tournament rolls around and Philly is a pretty decent college basketball town, the entire fucking broadcast of every fucking show is about the local teams and their tournament performance. That is why I was so happy to see a local team lose on a national level today. Yesterday I was practically jumping up and down when Robert Morris almost upset 'Nova. A 15-2 upset AND a the local team picked to go furthest is gone in the first round?!?! My lucky day!! But alas, 'Nova sacked up and was able to eke out an OT win because they had an 8 man to 5 advantage (there's 3 refs on the floor right?) But now Temple is gone. So the slobbering over local teams is cut in half. So here's looking at you St. Mary's. Let's see if you can send 'Nova packing. (And with that you'll witness the first and last time I ever root for anything out of California.)
But that's it. My hatred for the NCAA tournament when there is no longer the opportunity to skip class and use it as an excuse to drink all day has nothing to do with my dislike of basketball. It has nothing to do with my lack of pride in local sports teams. It simply has everything to do with the fact that it fucks up my normal day to day routine and I HATE fucking up my normal day to day routine.
Oh, just one more thing. I also hate that tournament because on a mostly not, but slightly relevant note, I hate having to listen to douchebags talk about Xavier and pronounce it like that fucker from the X-Men. It's pronounced like if you spelled it Zavier, douche.
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