Things I Hate About TV: March Madness

Best time of the year for me. It is sweet relief from reality TV which is no way like the real people I know

I'm really happy to see that most comments disagree with you, that makes me feel alot better and I 100% agree with #10. I hate reality TV as much as I possibly can and that comes on almost every single day of the year. so you can just suck it up and deal with 2 weeks of basketball, and not be such a dick and complain about it.

what I hate about TV? Sports EVERYWHERE! I rarely turn the thing on anymore. I don't like daytime soaps, I don't like reality shows (although I do hope Taylor Hicks wins - first time ever I've rooted for anyone on that show), I've always disliked "talent" shows, and I don't like watching sports. I'm tired of every channel having some kind of sporting event showing. I'm really sick of multiple ESPNs - I programmed them out of my box altogether.

In my neck of the woods, sports is an obsession. I fail to see the logic in a sports bar having 7 or 8 televisions, all on to different channels, none of which has any sound. Who knows what is happening??

My neighbors channel surf all day and night looking for some kind of sporting event to watch. The husband, now retired, even got up at 5 AM to watch the Olympics. They watched nothing BUT the Olympics while it was taking place. (Is that all there is to their life?) I just looked forward to getting out of their house. It's no wonder their sons hate sports having been force fed sports all their lives.

I'm not anti-sports. I tried to get my son involved in baseball as a kid. I thought it would be good for him to participate and learn to be a team player - he hated it. He loved to swim, so he joined a competitive swim team in our town. That lasted just long enough to find out there were rules he had to follow. My daughter was on a competitive cheerleading squad - as much of a workout as anything else she could have done. She stayed with it for two years until we moved. But, I wasn't about to force them to do what they didn't enjoy.

I have a cousin who was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals last year out of Rowan University. I think it's great. I hope he gets to play the major games. He loves playing and he's good. But, I am not and will never be obsessed by sports. It's become too much of a business and no longer a sport.

The greatest thing about March Madness is when somebody who doesn't care about basketball gets involved in these david and goliath battles. That is why people watch. What we should be talking about is how crappy the coverage is by CBS. They never show what they should be. They should let ESPN cover the games not in the geographical region so we have a choice. They constantly are to late switching to a close game. It sucks

"two weeks of COLLEGE basketball?"

What--you'd rather watch NBA basketball? Give me a break. Most of these kids are playing for the last time in their lives. It's about tradition and competition. And it's so much more about the TEAM in college basketball instead of ME.

Best sporting event there is, period. Day after day you see teams go at it and leave everything on the court, winner stays, loser goes home with their season over, it's all on the line, every night.

nfl playoffs are similar, but theres a week break between every game. march madness is like repeated shots of adrenaline right up to the big game, I love it.

Don't worry Bob (the blogger) is an Idol fan that should tell you something.

March Madness is wonderful. IN Norht Carolina growing up, we got to watch the early rounds of the tournament. Back then (almost 20 years ago) that was the only chance we ever got to watch TV during school. Even though i never was a big basketball fan, I would look forward to those games all year long.

"You are a fool if you believe that they are playing simply for the spirit of their school. Don't think for a second that they're not trying to look good for pro scouts. And that, untimately, equals big money."

Yeah I'm sure several of the mighty Winthrop Eagles are going to go in the lottery in the next NBA Draft. And for the guys that are actually going to be drafted, 2 weeks of on-court performance has little weight on how high they go. Texas' LaMarcus Aldridge has games where he is an absolutely non-factor against mediocre Big 12 competition, but he'll drafted in the top 5 because at 6'10" he can run the court, has a good shot, and oozes potential.

I just realized you forgot to tag this post with "Things I Hate About TV" - want it to go away so soon, eh?