It’s another one of my favorite times of year…March Madness! Anyone who knows me knows I’m a die-hard University of Louisville fan. I have a piece of their 2013 National Championship floor on my office wall, and numerous other U of L related items around the house (and in my closet). This, however, has been a more frustrating year. A lack of consistency (but consistently poor shooting) and the dismissal of the team’s starting point guard still finds Louisville tourney-bound (a #4 seed in the East), but not the juggernaut of the last three years.
It’s weird to be so invested in a team I neither coach nor play for. Obviously, no one wants to win more than the players, and yet a Louisville loss can irritate me – a mere bystander and fan – for days (last year’s ouster by the University of Kentucky from the Sweet 16 left me drinking whiskey and eating a pizza at 3:00 AM). Every year I say this is the year I’m just going to “let it go,” and every year I still find myself in front of the TV, wildly gesturing, and yelling at refs that can’t see or hear me. My life would be a helluva lot more relaxed if I wasn’t a fan, but it wouldn’t be quite as colorful either.
So the next few weeks are going to be the end of the annual roller coaster that begins for me in the first week of November and ends the first week of April. No matter what the outcome, I always breathe a small sigh of relief when the season is over, but still, the next day, I’m just as eagerly anticipating the tip-off of the next one.
To that extent, it’s no different than writing and completing a book, and then sitting down to start another…
Go Cards!
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