One inch. That's how close Gordon Hayward's shots with both less than 10 seconds remaining and less than a second remaining could have gotten in to give the University of Butler the National Championship over Duke. That's how close we would have gotten to seeing the biggest victory by a Cinderella team since the '85 Villanova Wildcats and one of the biggest steps of progress to respectability among mid-major team ever. Its' how close we came to probably one of the greatest ahots and moments in the history of the NCAA. It's also how close we were going to have seen Hollywood movie companies scrambling to become the rights holder to the script of the movie based on the 2009-2010 Butler team (and believed me, that would've happened. I could almost picture it now, with someone like a Peter Berg directing, Edward Norton as coach Brad Stevens, Zac Efron as Hayward, a grown-up version of Luke from "Modern Family" as Matt Howard, some R&B artist with partial movie experience playing Sheldon Mack, Ethan Suplee or someone scary-looking Russian dude as Zoubek, and with some inspirational title like "Hoosier Dreams." Tell me that isn't a movie idea someone was going to work on).
Alas, it was not. Gordon Hayward missed both the jumper and the desperation three at the end, and the big bad, and very dispised Duke Blue Devils win their fourth National Championship in school history. It also means we have gone a year with the Lakers, the Yankees, and Duke winning a national championship, which kind of sucks for us non-chalk sports fans. Still, though, it was a terrific game to watch, and definitely the best championship game I've ever seen, even better than that Memphis/Kansas overtime game two years ago that went into overtime. And it was a terrific way to end of the most exciting tournaments (and most likely the last one with the 65 team format ever) of all time. And that's a pretty good legacy to leave if you're the players on the two teams. And who knows, maybe Butler will pull a "Rocky II" and win the whole thing next year.
And now, onto some more random thoughts. A little later than usual, which I apologize, but still fresh. The following were on my mind between Monday, March 29th and Monday, April 5th:
- What's with this massive number of websites going through massive layout changes? YouTube, MySpace, Deadspin, TV Squad, etc. have gone through many recent changes over the last year. Don't they know that people hate change!
- Name one person named Chad who isn't an a-hole. Go on, I'll wait.
- The Scion xB has to be the worst designed car in modern auto manufacturing history. It looks just like most first graders drawing of a car, with that boxy shaped exterior, the hood sticking out and those big, square windows drawn on it. In fact, that's probably how the designer of the car made it. He/she was probably on the brink of getting laid-off unless he made an idea for a car, then (in the last minute) found his/her son's car drawing when he was four, then desperately pitched it to Scion making up his/her presentation as it went on, most likely thinking that there was no hope they would buy into it, but they somehow did it. That has to be the reason.
- Have you noticed that during a church mass, when it's at its quietest, some child always starts to cry, or is it just me? (It's probably just me).
- This year's NCAA Tournament was probably the best I've ever seen. From beginning with Old Dominion beating Notre Dame by one, Robert Morris nearly beating Villanova and BYU beating Florida in 2OT, to end with Monday's championship game, there always seemed to be some close game coming down to the end each round. There were also plenty of upsets going on, which was great, too. It's too bad the NCAA is thinking about having this never happen again with their idea of expanding it to 96 teams for more money.
- Why does CPS (Chicago Public Schools) have Spring Break on the week before Easter? Most of the suburbs do it the week after, and it id better for people like Christians and Jews who don't have to worry about celebrating their big holiday while relaxing and planning a trip. If anything, they can start Spring Break on Good Friday, then continuing it the week after Easter.
- Chris Berman should be the most excited about the McNabb deal. He can now use that Kevin "Corn on the" Kolb or Kolb "Salad" line he's probably been dying to hear. (Also, what was up with that deal in the first place? I mean, why to a team that he will get a chance for revenge at you twice in a year? Not even the Packers dared to trade Brett Favre to the Vikings in 2008.)
And that should do it for now. More random thoughts to come next week. And now, we're going to leave off as expected with another "Zep-tastic" Song of the Week. Tonight's feature comes from their fourth album titled, well there's no title really, but people just call it Led Zeppelin IV. It came out as a single in 1971, and reached #15 in the US Billboard charts. It's also voted as one of the 500 Greatest Songs of All-Time by Rolling Stones magazine and regarded as one of the band's best. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, "Black Dog":
Sincerely,
Your pal: mj15
BONUS!: Is there a better way to finish off this NCAA season then a video of some of Gus Johnson's announcing calls describing a dog humping a stuffed bear? Of course not. Here's a video of a dog humping a teddy bear with Gus Johnson "announcing" it, just 'cause. You deserve it for being such a loyal reader.
If you have any opinions on today's post, or if you want to suggest anything to mj15 forhis next blog entry, e-mail him at: mj1599@aol.com. Your e-mail might be addressed on a future post.
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