Fuck the doom!
Fuck the gloom!
Time for some Bread and Circus shit!!
If you’re in the Top 1%, you could win $10,000. You can also win a new car. You can win $1 billion if you pick a Perfect Bracket ….. but, there’s a better chance bb will grow a brain.
Not sure why I play though. I’ll be in the Top3 after the first round … and in the Bottom3 by the Final Game.
Admin, who claims he doesn’t follow basketball will probably win — somehow he found out a way to cheat.
Our TBP ladies are allowed to play …. but we don’t encourage it.
Billy will probably pick Kentsucky to win it all ….. and then contemplate suicide when those over-rated pretty-boys lose in the first round to Kansas State.
flash will copy and paste last year’s picks
Nonanonymous will pick a religious school to win it all …. Praise Jeebus! … like, maybe, SAINT Joe
llpoh will assign his company accountant for the next three days to research and make the right picks …. and then fire the accountant if llpoh doesn’t finish in first place.
AWD might play, then again he might not, but he’ll certainly use the opportunity to post phat fuck pics sprinkled in with some dumb looking Neegrows.
TeresaE will post an article “Foods Neegrows Eat To Get So Tall”
Arizona has a damn good shot at winning it all ……. and then we’ll have to put up with SSS’s shit for the next year. Yuck!
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HERE IS HOW TO PLAY.
1) Go to this ESPN page to login. You need to create an account (it’s easy) …. or use last year’s account if you remember your name and password.
http://games.espn.go.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/2014/en/
2) Fill Out Your Bracket. ( This year you can fill out up to 3 brackets.)
3) JOIN THE GROUP
———– Group Name = TheBurningPlatform (no spaces)
———– Password = BigDogs (no spaces)
I’m a mortal lock to win this again.
My Nova Wildcats are primed and ready to roll.
The teams with the most white players will not be in the Final 64.
One Billion (New!) Dollars was the prize in “The Running Man” (the book by Richard Bachman, not his douche alter ego, The King).
I was waiting for a lotto prize to reach this level first, but I find it somewhat fitting that its a prize for a basketball bracket.
A diversion from the gloom and doom… Good idea Stucky.
“Time for some Bread and Circus shit!!” Great. I like bread, especially if I can fold it, and circuses because, unlike with government, the clowns are harmless and provide entertainment not anxiety, and the animals are restrained and tractable.
As for March Madness, I want to win. I’m picking whatever team(s) Administrator picks. If he “will probably win” I want to share first place.
I’ve already picked the winning pool. Indiana is a mortal lock to win it all.
Blow Me.
I hate idiot ball.Got anything else?
maybe this will excite bb
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bb ACTUALLY bowling for Jeebus
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No thanks Stucky ,I stick to duck dynasty.
“Arizona has a damn good shot at winning it all ……. and then we’ll have to put up with SSS’s shit for the next year. Yuck!”
—-Stucky
Well, yeah, if I could figure out how the ESPN site works. I’m already signed in (twice, can’t figure out how that happened), selected my picks in all four brackets, hit submit, and pffffft. Nothing.
Fucking site makes hacking NSA computers look like child’s play.
ESPN hates spooks, sorry SSS.
Join before noon on Thursday to see how badly you can lose to me.
I’ve created an excel algorithm that is fail proof.
I would love to participate but………..I’ve never watch more than two minutes of a basketball game in my life. I was given season tickets to the Razorbacks a few years ago, did I not go to one game. It’s a very perplexing task calculating which group of five née grows is going to be able to throw the ball through the orange ring the most times. I would surmise its all a matter of pure chance.
Anyway, Good Luck.
Sensetti I’m from the cold barren wastes of Canada. I always thought March Madness was something that happened when spirit was broken after long winter. Anyways do what I did and randomly pick teams to win. I’ll likely finish last in this contest but if I don’t I’m going to have to laugh……..
I have the Top 4 seeds in each and every region going to the Sweet 16 — with one exception.
I have two number 1 seeds in the Championship.
None of this will happen. I am sooo fucked. I’m pretty sure I’ll be in last place. Except for IU, I don’t watch basketball anymore … and this year I turned off most of the IU games by halftime, they suck so bad.
Basketball USED to be fast moving and exciting. Now with TV timeouts, too many regular timeouts, and with the new rules whereby the refs blow their goddamned whistles every minute — really, there are about 40 fouls called per game ——— so, it takes two plus hours to watch a 40 minute game ——- well, they ruined the game. It’s mostly boring fucking shit
I have but ONE wish. To finish in front of Admin. I hate his bragging shit.
Finally figured that fucker out, no thanks to you assholes who left me out there twisting in the wind. Damn that was frustrating.
The Arizona Wildcats get the brass ring. I had them beating both Villanova AND Indiana in the final (heh). Go Cats.
SSS
This explains why we lost the War on Drugs.
The Savior’s bracket. Crimea is secondary to the really important stuff.
The First Bracket is in, and the call is for Michigan State to beat Louisville in the NCAA men’s basketball final.
President Obama has Florida, the overall No. 1 seed, and Arizona, the No. 1 seed in the West, also making the final Four. But he predicts Virginia, another No. 1 seed, will lose to Michigan State in the Sweet 16 round, and undefeated Wichita State’s run will end at the hands of Louisville in the Elite Eight. Both Michigan State and Louisville are seeded fourth in their respective regionals.
The president unveiled his bracket on ESPN on Wednesday. You can see all of his choices here.
Obama hasn’t picked a winner since 2009, when he went with North Carolina. Still, his choices last year ranked him above 74% of other brackets entered on ESPN’s website.
I have no interest in college roundball this year. Our star Persian, Arsalan Khazemi is off the the NBA and after a sterling 14-0 start and a top ten ranking, the Ducks shit the bed and are watching the tournament from home, bong in hand. Fuck it.
“President Obama has Florida, the overall No. 1 seed, and Arizona, the No. 1 seed in the West, also making the final Four. But he predicts Virginia, another No. 1 seed, will lose to Michigan State in the Sweet 16 round, and undefeated Wichita State’s run will end at the hands of Louisville in the Elite Eight. Both Michigan State and Louisville are seeded fourth in their respective regionals.”
I made the EXACT same picks. Not kidding. Good lord, I really am fucked.
But I have Florida playing Arizona in the final …….. with Arizona winning it all.
“after a sterling 14-0 start and a top ten ranking, the Ducks shit the bed and are watching the tournament from home, bong in hand.”
—-Zara
You’re either drunk or high, Z. Oregon is IN the tournament, West bracket. BYU will send them home early.
“But I have Florida playing Arizona in the final …….. with Arizona winning it all.”
—-Stucky
Good call on Arizona, Stuckmeister. Except the Cats will beat the Spartans for the championship.
SSS
I’ve been to games in the Breslin Center .. and the Spartans are the ONLY other team in all of college bb I care about. But, according to Yahoosports ….
“There have been 73 teams that have won the NCAA Tournament dating back to 1939. Out of those 73 teams, ONLY 6 have won the tournament with 9 or more losses, including the 2011 winner.”
The Spartans have 8 losses this year. They barely beat a putrid IU team at the Breslin Center … a 5 point win that wasn’t settled until the final minute. I just don’t see them winning it all.
Hey, I’m back! Just in time to comment on the opening rounds of March Madness. I get to play the part of ultimate homeboy, rooting for my Cards to go back-to-back! It’s a plausible pick!
I’m changing several of my picks seeing how they were identical to Oreo’s.
see I always thought it was bassetball….or roundball…but, you’re right.Basket ball-now that I see the word in print-does make more sense.
Z is channeling his inner persian princess again, bong in hand.
There are about 21 entries so far. Don’t recognize more than half the names. I guess it’s too goddamn hard to use the same name as here on TBP.
One person submitted under the name “URHomo”. Really. I’m guessing it’s Nonanonymous.
Stucky
I ran the table on all the brackets, to include picking the national champion. I think I’m entered 3 times. Is that permissible? Can you also do this for each round? Then pick the next round by a certain time? Can you use dice and pray to Oden? How’s this shit work?
SSS says:
“after a sterling 14-0 start and a top ten ranking, the Ducks shit the bed and are watching the tournament from home, bong in hand.”
—-Zara
You’re either drunk or high, Z. Oregon is IN the tournament, West bracket. BYU will send them home early.
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SSS, Yeah, I just noticed that tonight. I was so disgusted with this team that just gave up following them a month ago. I am actually shocked that they made the NCAA tournament and figured even the NIT was a long shot given their collapse once they entered conference play.
My main attentions are with work and beside that, the ever increasing depressing state of the world. College sports (especially non-footbaw), take a back seat. Having said that…
Go Ducks!!
Tonight is my last night in Elizabethtown, KY. Tomorrow I fly back to the center of the universe aka Texas. I just returned from dinner and as I was walking past the front desk, I noticed a pile of shirts on the counter that say, Univ. of Kentucky, 2014 NCAA Champions!
This stuck me as odd since Louisville in only an hour away.
I bet the Negroods win. I think I am a lock for it., Larry Bird is dead (well almost) Long live Larry Bird.
The last time I watch a basketball game BTW. Which now consists of Monkeys passing to other Monkeys. With the occasional token white person.
White man can’t jump, but blacks can’t think. That is why back in the 70s me and my friends would cruise the courts for games. Especially with blacks. They believed all the bullshit hype about blacks superiority in sports.
We rolled those Negroods for hundreds of dollars. 5 white guys. Like the driven snow. The only reason you never see it on TeeVee is that it don’t fit the narrative of black love.
God help the black race if white people ever stop being a victim. They won’t stand a fucking chance.
Winston
Just a guess here ………. but I bet you don’t like the Harlem Globetrotters.
Zara
Kentucky Wildcat fans are the most deluded of all fans.
Surprised you didn’t see 40-0 shirts. They printed thousands of them. oops.
SSS
Yes, up to 3 entries per person is allowed.
You can change your picks until noon tomorrow. Once the games start you can’t change your picks.
I picked out a Maserati from the Summit NJ dealer today. I’m pretty sure I picked a perfect bracket. Warren Buffet is already writing me a billion dollar check.
For any late stragglers, you have 30 minutes left to submit picks.
We have 31 entries …. the most ever. Very nice!
Ohio State 59 — Dayton 60
I picked Ohio State. Fuckme. There goes my billion dollars.
Well, at least I’m not 584Jonathan …. who picked Ohio State to win it all. lol Bummer.
Admin picked Dayton and Harvard.
Suck it monkeys.
SSS says:
Oregon is IN the tournament, West bracket. BYU will send them home early.
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SSS, This is what happens when Ducks meet Cougars:
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Zara
Your Ducks may be a sleeper. Stay tuned. Don’t forget to thank me later.
You know why I like the NCCA-T so much? It is my own annual reminder that I am fully capable of deluding myself ……. tremendously.
I take some time to analyze key metrics easily available from http://statsheet.com/mcb/teams ;
Effective FG% both on offense and defense, offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds, turnover rate, and free throw rate. These 6 areas are key to determining the outcome of a game. So, I compare the two teams and quickly factor in a few other things; where the game is played, how the team has done in the past 10 games, the coach. and strength of schedule. Then I make my picks.
Then, just before the deadline I review my picks one last time. Here comes the delusion. I look it all over, and every fucking year I say to myself — “I don’t think I’ll have more than 5 or 6 wrong. I am fucken brilliant.”
Then some team like Mercer (where the fuck is that???) beats Duke …. and I swear to myself next year I’ll get better results if I just flip a goddamned coin.
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I missed the deadline. I know little about the teams year to year. One thing that makes it hard is trying to compare the Wichita States to the Kansas’s. wichita rolls undefeated, but figuring out if it is them so good or the rest of their conference so bad is damn near impossible.
I hope Mercer takes it all. Or Harvard. That would shake the foundations of NCAA basketball.
I am so totally screwed in this contest. Based on the the first round, the best I can hope for is beating Quinn and Stucky, both of whom aren’t rocket scientists when it comes to picking winners.
Just another reason to remind me why I stopped gambling (and I was never a high roller) 20 years ago. I actually picked Duke to face Virginia in the finals in one of my brackets.
“I swear to myself next year I’ll get better results if I just flip a goddamned coin.”
—-Stucky
Check. Me, too.
Villanova, Admin? Whoosh!!!! And they’re gone. Heh.
BM
We were robbed. My goal now is to kick your old scrawny ass.
Goddammed Ducks blew a 12 pt half time lead to the fucking badgers.
Currently tied with Quinn. Yes!!!! This is gonna be a race to the bottom.
Actual picture, submitted by Avalon, on how Quinn selected his teams.
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“Based on the the first round, the best I can hope for is beating Quinn and Stucky, both of whom aren’t rocket scientists when it comes to picking winners.” ———— SSS
Well, hardy har har!!! (My best imitation of Jackie Gleason on The Honeymooners).
—- I am ahead of both your entries …….. and have 1200 possible points remaining (which is the most of all the entries … but tied with the current leader Peaceout)
—- Quinn is tied for 27th
SUMMARY: I am ahead of you and Quinn. My work here is done ….. successfully.
Υou have got a real talent for the right words.
Here is my weƄlog: Adult chat site
Admin is 27th out of 32 entrants. This is so embarrassing. Not for me, mind you, him. I didn’t think it was possible for anyone to sink this low, but sure enough, he dug a hole and kept on digging.
Cats win!!!! Cats win!!!!