I've been under a curse for the last 14 years that was broken last night when Kentucky won their 8th National Championship. Now I don't literally believe that my run of Murphy's Law, a cheating spouse, financial chaos and a meltdown was caused by the fact that the Kentucky Wildcats hadn't won a championship since 1998... but 1998 was the year that I was married and sometimes we need a little something extra to push us... so for the last several years, I've done what I always did ... I filled out my NCAA bracket with great glee in the day or two following Selection Sunday.... thinking "This will be the year..."
This year I was busy with a deadline and had forgotten to fill out my bracket that week.
At about 10:40 am on the first Thursday of the tourney, one of my friends posted on his facebook status that "the games start in 20 minutes". I gasped and cursed realizing that I hadn't filled out my bracket.
I quickly closed the window I was on and went to ESPN to make my picks. I watched the clock as I hurried through. I submitted my bracket about 5 minutes or so before the games began, with Kentucky and Kansas in the final game and Kentucky winning it all.
As the games began, I was tickled to pick a couple of big upsets. I don't have a real formula for picking the teams because I watch very little of the regular season aside from the occasional Kentucky game...
I watched the game with one of the few Kentucky fans that I still have in my circle of close friends... we ordered steak and lobster tail from Outback and screamed our ever-loving heads off towards the end of the second half when Kansas started to close the gap... as the clock ticked down to nearly nothing and the Kansas guy shot the three pointer while traveling I nearly came right up out of my seat...
Not a breath was breathed in the room until the next second when the travel was called ... and then into the air our arms went and we began to scream like Banshees... we each jumped out of our recliner and hollered and cheered ... that was a loooong time coming and if the ref would've missed that traveling call (as he had missed so many other calls on Kansas during the game) that could've quickly become a "1992 Duke situation".. if I'm not mistaken, if that shot would've been counted they would've only been 3 points away from tying the game and needless to say Kentucky would've been rattled and who knows what could have happened...
Round Scores
- Round of 64230 of 320
- Round of 32140 of 320
- Sweet Sixteen240 of 320
- Elite Eight160 of 320
- Final Four320 of 320
- Championship320 of 320
and truthfully, neither team was at the top of their game...
that was one of the sloppiest games I've seen Kentucky play all year and had it not been the championship game I would've gone on to another project and googled the score today ... but I'm thrilled beyond measure with the result ... and now that my curse is broken I have quite a bit of stuff to get done.
Having said that, I'm delighted to announce that I don't give a rat's shiny fanny about sports now until Selection Sunday 2013 ... so let's try to keep it to a low murmur out there if we can ;)
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