It’s not very often I refer to the sporting life here at Eventualism. Mind you, it is one of the things you can do to pass time and further your EffTD abilities. Take baseball, for example. It’s America’s pastime…that term is a derivative of “pass time.” While virtually every sport insists that its spectators make use of another EffTD tool – alcohol – there are some that go so far as to encourage its use while actually playing the sport.
Golf? Check.
Bowling? Check.
Chess? Checkmate!
Case rested.
But there’s something about sports at the college level that just means more. The participants are playing for a better life, playing professionally so that they may retire at an early age and enjoy their while still in their prime, multiple head injuries and all. That’s not why I love NCAA sports, though.
(I would, however, love them for that reason if I was playing them and fell into the aforementioned area. Albeit as a placekicker – where I’d be injury-free. Except maybe for turf toe. End result in that case: no mowing lawns for me, thank you very much!)
But I digress (again, a trait of Eventualists – don’t worry, you’ll get there eventually). The reason I love NCAA sports is because of their drawn-out playoff system.
As I write this, only 16 teams remain from the 882 (or so) NCAA basketball teams that competed when March Madness began. While I’m not following any team in particular, I am noticing a significant drop-off in productivity during the tourney. Score one for the home team. I hope it “neventually” ends.
The football scenario is only slightly different, in that 882 teams compete for 441 different types of bowls, ranging from the prestigious Rose and Sugar Bowls to the lesser-known Salad and Cricket Bowl (which is contested immediately after in an impromptu cricket game which ends in a no contest since no one knows what the final score is.* The bowl is then smashed upon the turf until it shatters and then the placekicker sweeps up the remains. That said, I suppose had I been a placekicker I could also possibly get injured during this process as well.)
Now, I’ve been told there are other NCAA sports out there, but I’ll believe it when I see them…on nationally televised broadcasts.
These systems are perfect for the sports fan dwelling inside every Eventualist – budding or fully-budded. We can only hope that any sort of authority figure that has the power to do so does not mess up these formats. Hopefully they have something more pressing to do that will take up their time.
Or perhaps last even longer than NCAA playoffs.
*Corollary: Even the MIT team has been unable to crack this code, partly because it is so difficult to crack and partly because they have never been in this particular bowl game.
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