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Published: March 18, 2009
My team? Your team? Upsets? Downsets? (that’s dumb)Anyway you shake it, we all love March Madness even if it makes us sick.
It comes this year at the beginning of spring. Flowers are blooming, birds are singing and I couldn’t feel more sick to my stomach. As I reach for my pencil, yes I still use #2’s; I stare down at the sheet of paper that will drive me crazy for the next month. As I try to go with intuition, I still can’t resist. Will this be the year a number two seed goes down? maybe a number 1? Which 10 will win? Why are there so many choices (and voices)? I break pencil after pencil and slowly but surely I get there. It’s a complete bracket.
I still stare down at it thinking I will see a team jump off the page at me saying “Pick me! Pick me!” like donkey from Shrek. I stare up to the heavens and ask God to send me a team, a name, anything. He’s silent. I envision my wife grabbing clothes from the rack as we are shopping, then when we get to the register she stares at them as if she will never see clothes again. She lays all of them down and we go to the next store and the agony starts all over again. So, am I done? I feel stuffed, not a good stuffed, more like Thanksgiving day when you bounce from relatives and friends homes feeling great about all the food you are eating but then you have to try to force your face with that last piece of pie that you know will put you over the edge.
Well I decided here and now that this is my last piece of pie, my bracket.
the hoffs bracket
I figured I’d turn one more time to God, before I submit my bracket, and I ask him who He likes this year. He quietly answers with “Davidson”. I look all over my bracket and realize they didn’t make it this year. I smile and realize God does have a sense of humor and I also think He’s keeping His bracket a secret.
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