National Champion, 2007?Last night, Kevin and I filled out and compared our brackets. It turns out we have pretty similar picks - although Kevin's going on the Texas A&M bandwagon and has Carolina and Florida in the championship game, while I'm sticking by my boy Greg Oden and have Ohio State in the championship game, against Florida.
Naturally.
Also, it seemed only appropriate that BDR filled out a bracket of her own. Since she won't be able to make her own picks until 2009, we had to go with the professionals. That's right: BDR's bracket is just the favorites, with a few caveats: Duke must lose its first game, and Carolina must win the National Championship. It's all part of our Fetal Tar-Heelification Program (FTP).
In marginally more interesting basketball news, it's also time for our Sixth Annual Sydney Bristow Tournament of Champions. Quick backstory: in 2002, Kevin and I decided to hold a semi-pop-culture playoff of sorts, using the NCAA tournament as our vehicle. Basically, we pick 64 or 65 "things" that represent the past year, plop them in the brackets linked to the real NCAA teams, and watch our history beat itself to death.
Last year, for example, our Final Four consisted of: His Dark Materials (UCLA), Tom Kruse, Inventor of Hoveround (LSU), Charles Guiteau (Florida), and the 2006 U.S. Women's Curling Team, Calendar Edition (George Mason).
Which means, of course, that Charles Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield, was our Sydney Bristow Champion. (We had just finished reading Sarah Vowell's Assassination Vacation.)
This year promises to be even more exciting! Really! Some entrants may be familiar to faithful readers, including BDR - who scored a sweet place as Ohio State, which is appropriate as Greg Oden is one of her fetal personalities.
Other highlights include: Ranger Kirk, Herschel Walker, Stephen Wade Chevrolet, IKEA Panzarottis, Classic Peanuts, Ice Bat, Killer Squirrels of Mountain View, Marky Mark (in The Departed), Julius Peppers, Jack Bauer, Angry rattlesnakes at Escalate National Monument, Elephant Seals, Beatrice Baudelaire, Wanda Sykes, Sexy Cylons, El Camino Real, Banana Slugs, HHR, Shaquila O'Neala/James LeBron, Butt Valley, and Borat.
Kevin and I have Puppy Goo-Goo taking it all. (I should add that Kevin picked Borat to trounce BDR in the Elite Eight. A father's love...)
2 comments:
On a scale of 1 to 24, how excited are you that Duke lost? (both j and i ended up cheering for VCU even though we picked Duke to win).
Also, we've booked a hotel near the SF conv cntr for Aug 16-20 (when my conference is). We thought we'd come out a few days before or after that and stay closer to you guys to visit and play with BDR. You'll have to let us know your pref (before v after), and maybe suggest some hotels in the area when it gets closer to August!
Hmm. 20 or 21. (It's hard to be excited when you know it's going to happen.)
Mostly, I was disappointed that Coach K shuffled his players off of the court before any of them could start crying for the cameras!
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