I think most people would agree that the first two rounds of this years NCAA tournament has been the most surprising in a long time. Who would have that that the Gaels of Saint Marys or the Braniacs of Cornell ( not really their mascot) would be in the sweet sixteen. And nobody would have thought that the number one overall seed of kansas would have been beat by the likes of Ali Farokhmanesh (say that 10 times fast) and Northern Iowa.
This is why it is called march madness, because people are mad. Because of these three teams peoples brackets are completely done. I'm guessing that most of the country selected kansas to win the national title. Sorry to those of you who did.
But it's ok because people love the underdogs, they want the cinderella continue to play till the clock strikes midnight. America loves to see all these upsets, right?.... WRONG!
Yes, if you ask people if they love the upset and the underdog they will say yes but ratings say otherwise. People may love the upset but they certainly dont watch them. Second round tv ratings dropped from the first round... Why you ask??? Well look at it this way... how many people do think were waiting for the clock to strike 9 so they could watch ohio play tennessee. Exactly none.... Other than the students at Northern Iowa nobody cares to see them play Mich St. in the sweet sixteen. People want to see the best against the best. And on top of that a lot of these cinderellas aren;t really cinderellas... Cornell was snubbed in seeding, they are easily a 9 or 10 seed and UNI prob should have been a 7 after winning 30 games. But because they were seeded where they were they messed up a lot of brackets and a lot of people are upset about it (president obama selected kansas to win it all).
Now while most people are upset about their brackets, I am pretty excited. I selected cornell to make it to the sweet sixteen and did not have kansas in the final four... im not trying to brag but I'm doing pretty well. So I'm pretty much enjoying watching the cinderellas because its not affecting my bracket at all. And just so everyone knows I picked Ohio St., Syracuse, Kentucky, and Duke for my final four. Syracuse and Kentucky in my chamionship with Syracuse winning it all (which I picked at the beginning of the year). So when I'm right at the end of the tournament you can all pat me on the back.... ;)
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Girl Scouts VS. Cheerleaders
Nobody pushed the advancement of the sport of football more thank President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During WWII President Franklin encouraged men to play the sport of football in hopes of it making men more masculine and more eager to fight in the war.
I think it is time for something like this to happen again.
Football has slowly started to turn in to a 2 hand touch game. So many rule changes have happend in the game that it has taken away from aggresiveness of the game. People watch the sport for the big hits.
In the 70's players like jack tatum and deacon jones roamed the field looking for an opportunity to take someones head off. It was a time when people were allowed to lead with their head and they were allowed to hit people low. It was a time when the sport of football was played the way it was suppose to be. Now, we are forced to watch a sport where you can get flagged for hitting someone to hard... REALLY? HITTING SOMEONE TO HARD!!! And they mask it by calling it unneccisary roughness.... the sport is a rough sport... you are suppose to hit people hard.
So due to that fact that the defense is not allowed to hit hard, the scoring in football has gone up. Running backs are not affraid to run outside. Recievers are not affraid to run a route across the middle. Instead of games ending in a 7 to 10 score, games now end 35 to 42. I'll admit I love to see 80 yard bombs to the endzone for a touchdown but the reason I loved it was so that I could see players celebrate. So what does the league do? They make celebrating illegal too.. at this point I'm starting to think the league wants me to suffer. I loved the celebrations like the Atlanta Falcons Dirty bird dance, or Terrell Owens pulling out a sharpie to autograph the ball after he scores. I even liked seeing Chad Ochocinco use an endzone marker as a putter and putting the football like it was golf... it got to a point where I was so excited to see touchdowns because I wanted to see what celebration they could come up with. So basically, if for some crazy reason the comissioner of the nfl roger goodell were to read this I'm asking you please make the league the way it use to be when men got knocked out cold and the defense dance around the player laying on the ground. Thanks.
I think it is time for something like this to happen again.
Football has slowly started to turn in to a 2 hand touch game. So many rule changes have happend in the game that it has taken away from aggresiveness of the game. People watch the sport for the big hits.
In the 70's players like jack tatum and deacon jones roamed the field looking for an opportunity to take someones head off. It was a time when people were allowed to lead with their head and they were allowed to hit people low. It was a time when the sport of football was played the way it was suppose to be. Now, we are forced to watch a sport where you can get flagged for hitting someone to hard... REALLY? HITTING SOMEONE TO HARD!!! And they mask it by calling it unneccisary roughness.... the sport is a rough sport... you are suppose to hit people hard.
So due to that fact that the defense is not allowed to hit hard, the scoring in football has gone up. Running backs are not affraid to run outside. Recievers are not affraid to run a route across the middle. Instead of games ending in a 7 to 10 score, games now end 35 to 42. I'll admit I love to see 80 yard bombs to the endzone for a touchdown but the reason I loved it was so that I could see players celebrate. So what does the league do? They make celebrating illegal too.. at this point I'm starting to think the league wants me to suffer. I loved the celebrations like the Atlanta Falcons Dirty bird dance, or Terrell Owens pulling out a sharpie to autograph the ball after he scores. I even liked seeing Chad Ochocinco use an endzone marker as a putter and putting the football like it was golf... it got to a point where I was so excited to see touchdowns because I wanted to see what celebration they could come up with. So basically, if for some crazy reason the comissioner of the nfl roger goodell were to read this I'm asking you please make the league the way it use to be when men got knocked out cold and the defense dance around the player laying on the ground. Thanks.
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