Tourney Time 2009

This year the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament FINALLY made an appearance in Portland. We only had to do away with our state NFL lottery game, Sports Action (moment of silence, please). Sniffle....Anyway, the first and second round games were in the Rose Garden. Christy and Ryan hit the first session of 2 games on Thursday afternoon. Then Aaron swooped in to relieve Christy for the 2 evening games....after a quick shot of Jaeger and a few beers at McFadden's, of course! Christy recovered in time to attend Saturday's awesome games which included the Fuskies losing by 2 and a last second shot by Gonzaga to send them to the sweet 16. My only two complaints of the tourney is the lack of games on the big screen during timeouts and half time. (HELLLLOOO, there are 4 games running simulataneously during the 1st round. Would it kill you to play something besides stupid trivia questions when play is stopped??) My other complaint is the NCAA's no alcohol policy. However, I totally understand why they wouldn't want to sell beers for 4 straight games....yikes! All in all the NCAA tourney is a truly unique event. The electricity when the crowd senses an upset is simply awesome.