NCAA Tournament- Day 1

12:20- We're coming to you LIIIIIVVVE from Rucker's basement/Sports Emporium! The fellas and I are relaxing in black leather stadium style seating, enjoying the view on the 100inch HD projection screen, and pouring taps of Heineken. Life is good. Present for day one, we have Nathan Rucker, Eric Marquardt, Aaron Steele, and Anton Chigurh from No Country For Old Men is standing in the corner with a metal canister of air. Anton doesn't say much, and he's beyond creepy, but he'll come in pretty handy if we get locked out of the house.


12:30- Xavier is down 11 early in the second half...good thing I have the Muskateers advancing to the Elite 8. This may be an early bracket crumple year for Aaron.

12:43- Eric is excited about the amount of candy that is present. This is a guy that had 25 people chanting his name at a somewhat classy restaurant last Friday night as he consecutively devoured four cupcakes in one bite per cupcake. Combine the basketball, candy, and beer that is going on right now, and let's just say that Eric is probably pumped to the point where he shouldn't be wearing sweatpants...

12:52- Xavier has climbed back to within 6, with 12:05 to go...my frown is turning upside down.

12:54- I have no idea who is announcing this game, but I'm already yearning for some Gus Johnson enthusiasm. Let's get pumped up on some Gus Johnson calls from the last few years:




1:18- Rucks and I just decided that Dave Bliss, #44 for the Georgia Bulldogs, looks remarkably like Hans Klopek from The Burbs.


1:29- We are currently debating what more computer screens are tuned into at the moment: Newly surfaced pictures of Audrina from "The Hills", or the NCAA tournament scores. Our laptop scores it 1-1. I'll have Anton flip a coin...

1:46- There are approximately 300 people at the Marquette-Kentucky game. I'm guessing most of the Milwaukee population is still hungover from last night, considering it's only 11:50am in Anaheim. 37 PBR's and 4 bratwursts will do that to you...

2:33- Alright...we're back after a short break to get after the Heineken, and partake in some meatballs/pepper jack cheese/oreo's. Kent State has 8 points through the first sixteen minutes of the game. They're on pace for 20. Women's basketball coaches from the 1930's everywhere are rejoicing the return of "fundamentals".

2:35- Current consumption check: Rucker-4 Miller Lites, Steele- 3 Heineken's, and Marquardt- 4 Miller Lites, 1 Heineken, and three creepy comments about the temperature of the meatballs that he keeps affectionately calling "balls".

2:43- Carter Blackburn, a new announcer for CBS, looks all of seventeen years old. He's rocking a rather classy pocket square in a rather NOT classy CBS Sports blazer. I'm anxiously awaiting a "boom goes the dynamite" comment...


2:53- The first "chill" inducing moment of the 2008 NCAA Tournament comes not from an actual game, but from a new Nike commercial. Because I'm always looking out for you, my three faithful readers, I've got it for you:

3:31- Thank God for the Kentucky Wildcats, who are making their game with Marquette interesting, because the other three games are twenty point blowouts. This tournament hasn't witnessed an upset yet...the only upset I've seen today is the bag of oreo's survived Marquardt's stomach past 3:30pm.

3:36- Kentucky just drilled a 3, making it a 3 point game with 38 seconds left...meanwhile Rucker, Mars, and I are discussing the 1998 Vikings, which is like discussing that incredibly hot girl that you met at the bar 9 years ago. This girl talked to you for a good hour, flirted heavily, gave you her number...and then you called her the next day and it was a pizza hut.


4:03- Purdue is wrapping up their game against Baylor, and we are going to wrap up this afternoon session by finding out what happy hour in Stillwater, MN has to offer. Back in two hours...

8:03- Ok...so it was more like four hours.

8:05- We have been watching the USC-K State game at Buffalo Wild wings, and have decided that Michael Beasley would look pretty damn good in a Wolves uni. We also decided that Mars has a female appetite for buffalo wings...

8:23- Belmont just about shocked the world, narrowingly missing a 35 footer that would've taken down Duke with no time on the clock. The tourney has officially started! Where was Bill Rafterty for the commentary on that game?! Duke is looking as solid as the Dow Jones at the moment. The people that picked West Virginia to beat the Blue Devils in round two are currently crushing Miller Lites (at least one of them is).

9:09- Maxwell Rucker decided to grace us with his presence this evening for the Wisconsin game. He passed on filling out a bracket this year, but DID decide to enter a most awesome pj's competition. Polls are still open...vote early and vote often.