March Muddiness

This has got to be the last year that I let NCAA basketball take over my life for MORE than a month. I actually made a killing in the office poll (I had 10 points on the final, so...) $$$$ but, still, it's the TIME I devote to it. IT's gotten to be this red vs blue thing like politics, except with basketball it's COOL teams vs. ANNOYING teams.

WHo are the annoying teams year after year? Duke, every year, of course, just because Coach K did those stupid commercials, and he always looks like he's smelling something bad, and he is the master of recruiting REALLY UGLY players, especially those with really bad haircuts. Arizona is always annoying, it's like the have the same players year after year, and a coach whose name is a REALLY annoying "musical" instrument. UCLA, always annoying. Same with Kentucky, but maybe they're more boring than annoying, and now that Tubby Smith left, that may change. Notre Dame just for being Notre Dame. That's about it-- Oh, Kansas... time for new uniforms, maybe ?

Stanford would be, maybe, but then they will have players like that Sauer guy who looked like he should be bombing the student center in a early 70s counter-culture movie, played by Elliott Gould. And Gonzaga you have to like, just because they had that guy (I know, last year) who had an even uglier attempted moustache than Larry Bird. Florida were annoying, but you had admire them, except for that Noah guy-- though if just ONE PERSON could have pronounced his first name I'd have been happier-- but that ponytail-- I like when BB players have long hair, but if it's long hair that could possibly injure someone, that's just too much.

I don't know if anyone remembers that Robert Redford movie, Jeremiah Johnson, where he played this mountain man. I always like how he said, "March is a green muddy month DOWN BELOW. Some folks like it. Farmers mostly." You know, really disdainfully. No, philosophically. I always think that, every year, in March, and I agree, some day I think I'd rather still be up in the mountains. And with no goddamn satellite dish, either.