Ahhhh Yes March Madness

I'm not just talking about college basketball either, the birds are chirping, I wore shorts to class today, ESPN is desperately trying to market the WBC again, spring training is going on, and the NBA and NHL playoffs are in sight. The hermits have come out and winter is about over, so instead of being original and posting my bracket,instead of "The Five People you Meet in Heaven". Its the "7 Types of Fans you Meet in March." The most knowledgable college basketball fans never win their pool, but these people do.

#1-Speed Racer: Speed Racer is the guy that finds out Game 1 of the NCAA Tournament starts in 2.5 hours and tries to find the pool organizer to see if its "too late to get in". Speed usually fills out his bracket in about 42 seconds, picks random upsets, then brags when the pool organizer tells him he has a shot to win the day before the National Championship. We've all lost to a Speed.

#2-Clueless: The people that have absolutely no clue why they picked who they did, and who the teams are. I'll never forget the one year my mom made her picks based on "Who had the prettier team colors" and came in 2nd place. The best reason that has ever been said by anyone ever for picking the teams that they did happenned in Plymouth, Michigan, when I was 15. "I was just picking based on who would win in a mascot fight." One of these years I'm just going to stop giving someone a filled out bracket and 10$ because of these winners.

#3-Mr. Bias: Michigan is going to the Final 4 aye? Mr. Bias is always right by the way.

#4-Barack Obama: The Guy who doesn't pick any upsets.

http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/entry?entryID=2813746

Where is the fun in that?! Upsets are inevitable. They never get old and are one of the things that makes the NCAA Tournament so great. With big risk comes big reward. Not picking upsets in the NCAA Tournament is like buying a Big Mac and asking for no meat.

#5-Too Many Upsets Guy: Just the opposite of "No Upsets Guy" You will often see this person with a 9 seed in the final 4, and a 1 seed going down in the second round. I appreciate the fact that you are trying to be outside the box sir, but I highly doubt South Central Idaho A&M will beat North Carolina. The good thing about "Too Many Upsets Guy" is that he never wins (with the exception of the year he picked the George Mason Patriots).

#6-"Can I fill one out for my wife?": LIAR! Translation: Can I fill out 2 brackets so I have a better shot of taking your money? To spot this guy you must watch out for 2 things
1-Handwriting, remember, women write neater than men and put hearts over their i's instead of dots.
2-His "wife" has 4 totally different Final 4 teams than him

#7-The Traditional Powerhouse: Duke, North Carolina, Michigan State, Wake Forest, UConn, UCLA, Kentucky, and Kansas are 8 teams that are usually in contention annually. There is always someone who will pick his Final 4 based on the fact that "X" team was good in the 80s.