Braggin Rights

It’s March. The weather is crazy. You are probably tired of your kids being on Spring Break and want them to get a job and move out of the house already. You and your wife are probably stressed with Easter (should you celebrate), possibly selling/buying a house, or just other busy stuff that the spring holds for us.

Well as a fun way to promote FRIENDLY competition in your house. We give you the Suburban Father Alliance Bracket Challenge. Its easy. Sign up, make your picks, and beat your spouse.

The scoring is easy.  The more you get right & the higher the round, the better you do.

To sign up simply go to http://suburbanfatheralliance.mayhem.cbssports.com and enter the password: poopydiaper.

We’d love to offer some sort of prize to the winner, but seeing as how we don’t have sponsors or petty cash, we’ll have to keep it to braggin rights among all suburban fathers (or mothers). As for the braggin rights in your house, we’ll leave it up to you, but if your wife wins, make her dinner for 3 days. Not the frozen pizza variety either, a real meal of food. 

Good luck and happy bracketing.

Mid-Majors

I'm sitting here preparing myself to watch the final game of the college basketball season between Butler and UConn. I'm pretty confident Butler will win (which means you should bet on the Huskies) and I'm a little pissy about the whole thing.   People are all excited this year because a bunch of teams with no business making the Final Four made the Final Four. People eat this crap up. I don't.

To be frank, I'm an Ohio State fan. I didn't go there, so I'm not a tattoo-sporting, Dead Schembechlers-listening-to type fan, but they have been my college sports rooting interest for as long as I can remember (calm down: I grew up in Ohio, I'm not one of those guys who like UNC and Duke even though they've never set foot in a state that ends in Carolina). I grew up hating Michigan, and I always will, unless of course -- God forbid -- one of my kids gets a scholarship there. Even talked the Missus into a Buckeyes-themed Christmas card.

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This means that, at least in the intercollegiate context, I don't much care for underdogs. I like big, sports-factory schools to kick the crap out of little schools all season long, and I like for those little schools to make a nice little paycheck and be happy to tell their alumni they're gonna be on TV. However, the last couple of years -- largely due to the NBA's age limit (players must be out of high school for at least one full year before they can enter the draft) -- the smaller schools have been doing really well in the tournament. And that kind of bites, especially for the schools that have been overpaying their players these last few years with nothing to show for it.

Hopefully with the NBA's labor lockout looming we'll get to see some top talent stay in school next year so everyone's bracket will make it through the first round without getting broken in half. Until I can say go Buckeyes again (which is hopefully only 5 games into football season), go Bulldogs.