I love love love LOVE March Madness. My favorite thing about it is that every single team plays their heart out in every single game. You rarely see that in professional sports and I love watching that.
This is the first year we created a bracket with the boys. Jon had the idea to put all the teams in a hat and pick teams randomly. As we pulled teams, it was so fun to watch the boys get excited about Florida (that's where grandma Jen lives!), Ohio State (that's where grandpa Turtle lives!), and UNC (that's where we live!).
After all that excitement, I worked on my bracket and Nate wanted to help. I asked him his picks and he was lightning fast at his answers. He didn't just pick the better team or the first team, he seemed to know what he was thinking.
The only issue came with the Southeast bracket. He lined Butler all the way to the Final Four. He even tried to make Butler upset Kansas for the final. Jon said, "You know why he's picking Butler, right?" I thought it was because he thought it was funny that a butler would play basketball. I asked Nate why he liked Butler and he said, "Because it has THIS (pats his own butt) in the name!"
Is this a better method than other people use for their picks? I can't decide. All I know is if Butler is the Cinderella story this year, Nate and I are going to smoke Jon with our picks.
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That's as good a logic as I ever use!
Now, you know, I'm going to have to root for Butler to go all the way.
Makes perfect sense to me.
He is a boy. He is 4. Why did I know it was going to have something to do with his rear end? LOL!
Laura forgot to mention that Nate giggled each time he said Butler
My oldest just did Brackets with all the boys in his class. They all put a dollar in and had a great time picking teams...Its fun to see him getting so into it and now gollowing the Madness so closely. I agree that its refreshing to see athletes playing so hard for something other than a paycheck!
I was on pins and needles for you the entire Butler/Old Dominion game! Even worse, I picked Old Dominion so I was rooting for my team to lose.
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