Top Five Fridays – March Madness, Things I don’t like

Next week, March Madness will be in full gear. 65 teams. One national champion. Filling out a bracket at the office has become a rite of spring. It’s truly one of the best sporting events in the country mainly because you feel part of the action. However, there are some things I really don’t like about March Madness and here they are:

1. Duke Basketball: They’re a clean program. They have a great coach. They consistently win. I can’t stand them. Why? For all their greatness during the regular season, they don’t seem to get the calls in the post season. Hence they have busted my bracket so frequently, I refuse to pick them to win it all ever again out of spite.
2. Tattoos: With their jerseys that look like eerily similar to wife beaters, basketball allows you to show off your tats unlike any other sport. But having both arms covered in tatoos is just bananas. The worst offenders have their names tattooed in olde english letters. Disclaimer: I don’t have any tattoos and have never had any desire to get one.
3. Overpaid College Coaches: Is Marquette’s Tom Crean really worth $2 million? If Dwayne Wade goes elsewhere, Tom Crean never gets to the final four and never gets his payday.
4. Free Throw Shooting: On the playground, basketball is the only sport where you earned your spot. There’s no getting picked. If you sank a free throw, you were on the team. In college and in the pro’s free throw shooting is atrocious. It’s not a difficult shot, it just requires practice. You’d think players would practice it more often since it’s usually is the difference between a win and a loss.
5. Baggy Shorts: At what point do they stop calling them shorts? When women wear shorts that end at their calves, they’re called capris.

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