If I could redesign The Cleveland Browns Uniform (A Video I made for YouTube.)

I'll let the video do the talking...

The Five People you always see during March Madness

It's the time of the year where College Basketball ends up getting as much betting action (Legal and Otherwise.) as The Super Bowl does. I'm sure you have your bracket filled out and will try to get out of work this Thursday and Friday so you can watch. It's also this time of year that in the workplace or if you go to a bar, you will inevitably run into at least one (or maybe all...) of these types of people while watching the NCAA Men's College Basketball Tournament. So here are the five types of people you will see this time of year:
 
1. THE STAT GEEK GUY: He's the Numbers Cruncher with a few dozen spreadsheets filled with every type of Basketball Statistic you can think of (...along with a few you probably never thought of.) and tries to use this Pseudo-Science to fill out his bracket.
 
2. THE MULTI-BRACKET GUY: He's the guy who fills out at least 37 brackets in order to try to win money in betting pools and online contests by ESPN, CBS Sports, Fox Sports, etc. and ends up losing with all of them.
 
3. THE OFFICE POOL COMMISSIONER GUY: He's the guy who acts as if he's running one of the Vegas Books when it's just one of the local pools with a $20 Entry Fee.
 
4. THE "I CALLED THAT UPSET" GUY:  You always see at least one of these guys at the local sports bar. Everyone in the place is watching a 15-Seed pull the upset against a 2-Seed that nobody saw coming EXCEPT THE GUY IN THE BACK AND HE WON'T SHUT UP ABOUT IT FOR AT LEAST 30 MINUTES. Okay, we get it. How is the rest of your bracket, pal?!?!
 
5. THE "I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT BASKETBALL" PERSON: Where all the others are "Guys" because it is mostly males who do this, with this one, it's accurate to use "Person" since you find this a lot with both Genders. These are the people who wouldn't know a Rebound from a Rubber Band and use all kinds of ridiculous reasons to make their picks when filling out a bracket: Team Colors, Team Nickname. The Head Coach is Good Looking, whatever and yet, these are the people that end up winning whatever betting pool they end up joining.

Why American/Canadian Style Football would never work in the Olympics

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell stated in his "State of The NFL" Speech before The Super Bowl that Football would be an Olympic Sport by 2020. He obviously didn't think this through. Here are four reasons why it would never work as an Olympic Sport:

 

1. The Timing is bad.

The Winter Games usually take place in February, just after the season. No Pro, College or High School Player would want to play then, and I'm sure that Coaches, etc. wouldn't be too crazy about this either. The Summer Games? You can forget that too. They take place anywhere between July and September which would interfere with Training Camp or the start of the Season.

 

2. Football is a Game that is normally played once a Week.

Olympic Games span two weeks, at the most there could only be three games for a team: The Opening Round, The Semi-Final and The Medal Round. They would have to be played only on the Weekends.

 

3. American & Canadian Style Football isn't played in a lot of other Countries.

Seriously, name an NFL, CFL, Arena or even College Player that is a Citizen of a Country other than the United States or Canada? YOU CAN'T. This isn't Baseball, Basketball, Ice Hockey or Soccer. It is played as a Club Sport in some countries, and that is very few. I doubt there would be more that six countries and even that in my opinion is stretching it.

 

4. American and Canadian Football are different in terms of Field Dimensions and Scoring.

There would be a debate on what style to play. American Pro? American College? American High School? Canadian Pro? Canadian College? Canadian High School? The American Rules would likely be adopted which would force Canadians to play a style that they're not used to.

 

My guess is that Goodell based it on two things:

 

1. The Regular Season Game in London always attracts a big crowd. OF COURSE IT DOES. Over there, it's seen by Brits and Europeans the same way that Americans would attend a Soccer Game featuring well known International Clubs like Manchester United and FC Barcelona. IT'S SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

 

2. NFL Europe had good attendance. Well, there was a reason that most of the teams were based in Germany. All the US Military Based in Germany who obviously saw it as a little piece of home.

 

I haven't heard anymore about this. Maybe Goodell realized that it just wouldn't work. (...at least I hope so.)