So your bracket is busted, your alma mater is done dancing, and now you’re gonna stay up to watch championship game that may or may not be exciting, but even if it’s a 30 point blowout your gonna watch till the end because you are a college basketball fan and another season of the greatest U.S. sport, outside the NFL, is about to be in the books.
Sound about right? Well, chances are this is the way you, me and 94% of America is feeling right now, but the 36% of us the call the East Coast home will be lifting our heads up from the table, couch or pilsner glass we’ve fallen asleep on come the fourth quarter thanks to the game’s ungodly tipoff time of 9:20 p.m.
Ya know what I’m doing at 9:20 p.m.? I’m in bed or on my way there. But staying up isn’t even the worst part, have you ever been in the Economy Section of a long-haul flight? Other than the overpriced wifi and stale pretzels, that’s what the next day looks like – a bunch of angry, sleep deprived individuals who don’t want to be bothered with waiting 2 seconds so you can get your bag out of the poorly designed overhead bin.
Try and talk to people on Tuesday, you won’t have any luck. I guarantee it.
So why does the cartel, I mean NCAA put us through this? The answer is simple MONEY, nothing less and nothing more.
It’s a fact that the closer you get to midnight on the East Coast, the more TVs click on across the country but is zombifying the original 13 colonies the best play? There’s got to be another way.
Don’t worry; your humble correspondent is about to blow your mind.
Move the Final Four up a day and play the two semifinal games on Friday night. It would make for a late TGIF game, but staying up on a Friday and sleeping in on Saturday is much different than keeping your eyes open on a Monday night and feeling like a steaming pile of dog droppings the next day at work.
So now that we’ve moved the semifinals back a day when should the National Championship game be played? 7:00 p.m. on Sunday. This way everyone can watch the game and not feel like Peter Griffin on Monday.
