Preparations for March Madness: The NCAA College Basketball Tournament
March 12, 2007 8:18 PM | 0 Comments
While I was in the hospital with my 12-year-old daughter, preparing to return home after her spinal fusion, my husband Bryan apologetically explained that he had to make a slight modification in our Master Bedroom in order to accommodate the NCAA College Basketball tournament. The 10-year-old Magnavox TV, which only has a 27-inch screen, was too far away on its perch on our chest of drawers at the opposite end of the room, so Bryan cleverly prepared a make-shift stand for it. It now rests on a hunter green Rubbermaid container at the foot of the bed. Much greater clarity and poetic placement. Directly behind it is an easterly view of the Cascade Mountains.
The NCAA College Basketball Tournament is my husband's favorite sporting event. Once he even scheduled a vasectomy on a Wednesday so that he could recover while watching Rounds 1 and 2, which began on a Thursday and continued through the weekend. All Bryan required for convalescence was a bag of frozen peas, beer as an anaesthetic and the TV remote control. If you didn't count the mild pain in his nether regions, he was a proverbial pig in mud.
So, for the next month, Bryan will be preoccupied with brackets and searching the scores on the Internet when no-one is looking at work.
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