Dethroned

Last night ended the NCAA Basketball Tournament. Funny that March Madness ends in April??? Anyway, Matt's family has a little March Madness competition every year for bragging rights. Last year I was crowned the winner and was looking to go back to back this year. Saturday night was a sad night for me when both my picks got slaughtered!! Who knew that my proposed Champion North Carolina and UCLA would both fail to make it to the Championship game? I ended up losing to my father-in-law (who happened to be the score keeper...hmmmmm figures) and taking 2nd place (which I just like to call the 1st Loser). I guess 2nd isn't that bad when you consider that I beat like 10 people. But I have been officially dethroned. So sad. I guess I'll just have to wait for next year.
On the subject of sports, I'd like to just tell you all that Matt has finally decided to be a real St. Louis Cardinals fan. Being from Wisconsin, he has grown up as a Brewers fan. Blah! He had always told me he liked the Cardinals, but I finally told him he had to choose. If we were watching the Cardinals play the Brewers with his family, who would he root for?? He finally came to his senses and chose the Cardinals. I bought him his first St. Louis hat to celebrate. Now I just need to work on making him a "true" Cardinals fan. This would entail him wanting the Brewers to lose even when they're not playing the Cardinals. Hello, they are both in the same division, so you should not want to see the other win. That's like being a Yankee fan and still rooting for the Red Socks. Or like being a Packer fan and still wanting to see the Bears or the Vikings win. Who does that? Not true fans. Not the ones who are in it through the winning and losing seasons. Even when they trade one of your favorite players. (I'll miss ya Eckstein!) True Fans always want to see their team win and all their rivals lose.
I, on the other hand am now a true Packer fan by marriage. It was easy for me to adopt my husbands team, Green Bay, since I had no previous attachment to any other football team. When I was younger I was a 49ers fan during the whole Steve Young, Jerry Rice Era. But that faded quickly. I guess it may be a little harder to abandon a team you have watched and loved your whole life, but I think Matt finally decided that my love for the Cardinals outweighed his for the Brewers. Plus, he was always more into the Packers than he was into the Brewers. Besides, football is his sport, and baseball mine, so I think it only fair that he decide "our" football team and I decide "our" baseball team. Those are just my personal thoughts, you don't have to agree.
As for basketball, with no real draw toward any team from either of us, we have resorted to be Jazz fans by location. I was once a Trailblazer fan being from Portland and all, but when we moved to Utah, I switched to being a Jazz fan and just loved Stockton, Malone, Hornacek, Russell, and the whole gang, but again that faded. But for now we are Jazz fans until otherwise persuaded.
As for college sports, I have come to be somewhat of a Texas fan by friendship, but I will always be a "true" Utah State fan, Go Aggies!
Sorry for the novel, but you know me, I can talk sports.