We've made it back to the best 19 days of the year! MARCH MADNESS in the NEIGHBORHOOD! Lot's of basketball! Great games! Fantastic finishes! And a chance for the neighbors to get together! AWESOME, BABY!DEFENDING CHAMPION - PISTOL PETER BURG receives the RED BULL JOSH WISE TROPHY for his excellence in 2008! Remember, you too can win this beautiful trophy to adorn your mantle and to impress your friends with a victory in 2009! And you will have the opportunity to host the party of the decade, that will be talked about past 2010!!
RECORD BROKEN - We have our largest number of competitors ever in this our 13th year of competition. We have 29 contestants total in the adult pool and 7 in the teen pool! Of course this means the WINNINGS are larger too! And a BIGGER BASH by the winner?!!
DIAPER DANDIES - We have two rookie players this year! MARCY WOOD splinters off from the BIG HOUSE to try to construct her own winning entry! She thinks she'll do a better job than STEVE!
JEFF GUMESON is our second diapered entry. JEFF is a new neighbor who lives on S. Clinton Ct. He lives directly behind the Swanson's. He and his wife moved in this December and with the recent better weather we were able to meet across the back fence and recruit his money to help pay for our party later this spring! Welcome to the Acres Jeff!
NNTBD - MARCY and JEFF will be saddled with the NNTBD (NickName To Be Determined) handle for a day or two until the MAILMAN can percolate, cogitate and fermentate on your names, helped by a few or more than a few Coors Lights (got to watch the calories!) of course!
RULES REVIEW - Just to be sure everyone knows the scoring, below is the score summary for each correct game in each of the 6 rounds.
Round 1 - 1 point for each correct winner
Round 2 - 2 points for each correct winner
Sweet Sixteen - 3 points for each correct winner
Great Eight - 5 points for each correct winner
Final Four - 7 points for each correct winner
National Championship Game - 10 points for correct winner
SOCIAL GATHERING ALERT - Rememeber the gathering tonight - Friday, March 20th - at the CityPub. See the link at top of the right column for directions and menu. I will be there about 6 PM. Come to spend and hour or the whole evening to watch the games or visit with your neighbors! See you there!!
OFFICIAL'S CALLS!
TRAVELLING - COWBOY GEORGE LANTZ and family are cruising in Southern California this week! Missing the games! How could you! At least he put his picks under my door mat before he left town and it is a very good thing I looked there!
TRIPLE DOUBLE - LEWALCINDY celebrated yet another birthday this week. 3 x 2 equals 6. The question is if we should multiply 6 by 10 or 9! Happy birthday LEW!
TECHNICAL FOULS - HOT ROD BILL BELLAMY is out of town and his company has the nerve to block our MMHA blog on his computer! He will play blind for a while but will catch up when he gets back in town!
BLIND LUCK? - ICEMAN GEORGE BELME admitted to starting out filling out the women's NCAA March Madness brackets. Unfortunately it took him two regionals before he realized it wasn't the Men's brackets! The sad part is that he is leading us all!
ILLEGAL SUBSTITUTION - BRUIN DALE HUFFMAN seems to have a new name, as his bracket has "Brandon Huffman" printed on the top of his brackets. Hmmm, if he (Dale or Brandon) wins it all will he be flying us all out to Philly for the party!! I am pretty sure LEWALCINDY at least bothered to write out her own entries!
SHOOTING FROM DOWNTOWN (OR MAYBE THAT WAS EVERGREEN!) - CHIP FAN JAN HUBERT still likes to play with us from Evergreen. Our former neighbor really loves the tournament!!
RETURNING TO THE STARTING LINEUP - $BILL BRADY returns from his one year absence (a trip to Paris last year supposedly got in his way)! Welcome back $. We missed your financial support last year!
INTERNET TAKING OVER - MAGIC MIKE SAVAGE, HOT ROD BILL BELLAMY, STONE COLD JOHN LANTZ and BRANDON THE DREAM - BRUIN DALE HUFFMAN duo all used the internet to send in their entries this year. The world is changing!! I remember when I used to do this all by hand and deliver the reports on foot!! - What an old fart I am!
PLEASE BE SURE TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS FOR ALL OF US TO READ. Thanks $BILL for getting us started! I would agree that your picks have not always been stellar, but you can say that about the rest of us!
RESULTS AFTER DAY ONE!
Points
16 - ICEMAN GEORGE BELME
15 - SUNDEVIL JEFF BULL
LEWALCINDY HUFFMAN
MAGIC MIKE SAVAGE
14 - WOLVERINE JAKE BURG
GADI BLING EISNER
MY BIG FAT GREEK GREOS GANG
THE LEGEND JOHN TAYLOR
13 - THE PROFESSOR PATTI BAIRD
HOT ROD BILL BELLAMY
$BILL BRADY
PISTOL PETER BURG
BIG ONIONS DOUG REISINGER
THE MAILMAN
JAMMIN' JEFF WISE
HUSKY CASEY WISE
BIG HOUSE STEVE WOOD
12 - BASKETBALL BOBBY BAIRD
COWBOY GEORGE LANTZ
JEFF NNTBD GUMESON
CHIP FAN JAN HUBERT
RAM FAN JULIE REISINGER
DUNKIN' DON RONYAK
AND 1 ADAM SWANSON
DEBBIE THE CHEF SWANSON
MARIANNE PENNY WISE
KING JONAH WISE
10 - BRUIN DALE HUFFMAN
MARCY NNTBD WOOD
SWEET SEVEN
14 - A TRAIN ADAM BURG
DR. HOOPS ANDY GREOS
13 - SAM THE EXTERMINATOR GREOS
SOONER OR LATER A SOONER DAVID LANTZ
STONE COLD JOHN LANTZ
THE LONGHORN TYLER SWANSON
11 - THE BIG DIESEL SHAQ SEAN BULL
GOOD LUCK on Friday!
The Mailman
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