March Madness!!!

It's that time of the year boys and girls! I, for one, am super excited. I love college basketball! I love the tournament! This is such a great game, and it leads to something even greater...the start of baseball season! March Madness leads to opening day, the dog days of summer and the the hunt for October.

I agree...... but.

I totally agree with you that it was a HUGE step for US hockey. It proves that Brian Burke knows how to build a team, and they played hard and fought right till the end. I about fell off of my chair in Sunday school when the USA scored that goal with 24 seconds remaining. Great job by the United States.

HOWEVER....

I was once told a saying by grandfather that has always proven true:

"Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades"

Toché

You may have a point about us Americans getting a little ahead of ourselves in bragging about the round robin win, but we had every right to be cocky! Hockey is not our national sport, maybe in the top five, but that's debatable. The biggest point, though, is that Canada was supposed to win that gold! The US wasn't even supposed to be close! Scoring that goal at the end of regulation to tie the game was an amazing step for hockey in the United States. My point here is that if the US had pulled off the upset, we have that to put in your face for the next four years, while you (Canadians) have nothing to brag about! Let's be honest, we as Americans don't care enough about hockey to care about your bragging. Great game, but I still count it as a win for the USA.

Canada Hockey Gold

So I was reading earlier on the blog about how Mack thought it was great to rub the US winning the round-robin game vs Canada in my face.

You shouldn't have spoken so soon.

In fact, almost EVERY American that I know (including the 50 or so that live within a 100 feet of my apartment) just HAD to mention the score of that game.

I am sure that most every Canadian living in the USA went through the same deal.

All I have to say is this:

"Sorry, I can't hear what you are saying. My hockey team's gold medals are plugging my ears."

But in all reality, what a great game on Sunday. I was in church watching the game on my iPod Touch. No one in Sunday School was focused, not even our bishop. We all just wanted to know what the score was. It was a great atmosphere. All of us even watched the game afterwards, even though we already knew what the score was, because it was such an intense game. Great Olympics all around for both teams.