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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Brackets

How odd the whole NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament "bracket" business has become over the years. The New York Times now offers me the opportunity to complete "your bracket", save it, compare it with the brackets of various sports editors and reporters, etc.

I realize it's all in good fun, but there are 63 games among 64 teams. The very expectation that ordinary people will have an interest in picking all these random games between all these random teams is what makes the bracket thing so strange and, as best I can think, unique in the world of major sports.

It's harmless, but you are kind of a goofball if you fill out a bracket. Sorry, but it's true.

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posted at 4:08 PM

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Blogger Chase said...

Not only do I do the brackets every year - despite not ever watching basketball on tv - I still post the resulting print out on my bedroom door...and I always compete against a group of friends...never for money. I am a proud bracketeer. I just see it as one of the rites of spring, I don't even particularly care about the sport...as long as the teams perform the way I have written it out.

March 14, 2007 9:36 PM  

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