Latest column: Bowl Week vs. March Madness!
Here’s my latest LOOKatOKC column. I think it’s quite appropriate with the college football season wrapping up tonight:
I humbly submit to you that the best type of holiday is the beer holiday.
What, you might ask, is a beer holiday? It’s any day or stretch of days where you don’t have to go into work and you can sit around, watch sports and drink beer.
Thanksgiving can be a beer holiday, so long as you don’t have to work the Friday after. Same for Christmas or the Fourth of July. If you can sit around the house, socialize with family and/or friends and enjoy some cold refreshment, you’ve got yourself a beer holiday.
And the beer holiday isn’t limited to federally mandated days off. No, the beer holiday can coincide with your middle-of-the-summer vacation, tailgating on Saturdays in the fall or with my two favorites: New Year’s week bowl games and the first weekend of the NCAA basketball tournament.
These are arguably two of the best times of the year for sports.
But which one is tops, Bowl Week or March Madness? It’s time to break it down, tale-of-the-tape style!
-Game excitement: Bowl Week is exciting if your team is playing or if you’re betting on the games. March Madness is exciting when an upset is brewing or you’re playing along on your bracket. Plus the whole survive-and-advance deal is pretty cool. Edge: March Madness.
-Upset potential: March Madness is the home of the David vs. Goliath story line. Bowl Week features mainly evenly matched teams. Edge: March Madness.
-Pageantry: March Madness has the great CBS theme song. Bowl Week has classy fight songs and marching bands. Edge: Bowl Week.
-Continuous viewing potential: Bowl week has an impressive slew of games, but also some days with only one game. March Madness features four straight days of 11 a.m.-to-midnight-burning-out-the-TV potential. Edge: March Madness.
-Unique viewing twist: Many early March Madness games are played in generic arenas with sparse, quiet crowds. Bowl Week usually features one or two snow games. Edge: Bowl Week.
-Eating/drinking: March Madness generally calls for pizza and chicken wings, but it’s really pretty wide open in terms of the menu. Bowl Week gives you one last shot at tailgating menu glory. Both call for a ready supply of beer. Edge: Bowl Week.
So we’ve got a 3-3 tie. I’m going to give the edge to… March Madness! It’s hard to top the upset potential, the do-or-die games and the non-stop viewing with live look-ins well into the night.
The fact that I like to dominate my bracket doesn’t hurt either.
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