March Madness or March Stupidity?

It’s that time of year again. That time when people call out sick from work, fill out their bracket sheets, and get excited about one of the most stupid times in all of sports.

I blame the gambling types in Vegas and their excellent marketing for making March Madness the institution it is today. Its an attempt to make sports betting more mainstream in American society, and that ain’t good. We’ve all heard of how lives can be ruined by problem gambling, so why promote it so? Let’s promote alcoholism and drug addiction while we’re at it. Let’s make the world a better place by promoting this gateway to potentially years of financial heartache that we call “the bracket.” Yeah, that’s the ticket.

I challenge anyone to tell me why someone besides a degenerate gambler (innocent office pool or otherwise) would care about colleges named Austin Peay or Belmont? No one has ever heard of these places before, until they look at their bracket, but still the degenerates pick some unknown school to be their Cinderella story.

I don’t understand why college basketball, March Stupidity aside, is so darn interesting anyway. Proportionally, so very few of these college players will make it to the NBA that it is not even a sport worth watching. Its not like college football, where a higher percentage of players go pro. I’ll bet (pun intended) that the majority of the amateur bracketologists don’t even watch college basketball except in March, when money is on the line.

Maybe if more people would stop getting into this thing we call March Madness, all the TV shows that I want to watch will quit being pre-empted. Then again, no. There is nothing on CBS that I want to watch anyway. Maybe Letterman but that’s about it. So I change my mind. Lets do a little gambling, tap the keg, fill out our little sheets, and see how well the University of Unknown will last in the opening rounds. Fun fun fun