Every year when I see this piece of paper, I know it's March Madness and I get so excited. I print out the brackets and start filling them out. I know I'm a little obsessed with it and even have a hard time working on game days. But there is just something about the tournament, the upsets and the cinderella teams that keeps me excited year after year.
In the Goold family we have a long standing tradition of passing a trophy around to winner who has the most correct picks. We all submit our brackets online and then we wait and watch, cross out games, add up points, and see who the winner might be.
We also have a trophy for all the college football bowls. And in a very important post that I forgot to blog about in January, I won the Football trophy this year!! I was so busy preparing my acceptance speech (yes we really have a family presentation) that I forgot to blog about it. My acceptance speech was a short video of my journey to becoming the winner, it's a classic but too embarrassing to post on here, sorry.
The best part of the story is that the football trophy is in our home for the 2nd year. When Shane and I were engaged, Shane was allowed to join (the trophy is strictly for family members only!) Seeing as he was about to be in the family, my dad decided to let him join. Even Whitney, who was dating Jeff at the time wasn't allowed to join because even though they had been dating longer, they were not officially engaged. So, Shane joins, submits his picks, and low and behold, he wins!! We were so excited. He prepared his acceptance speech and then, just because it was Shane that won, the family decided to protest. Jeff and the brother in laws all held up signs with an Asterisk (*) on it. They said that because he wasn't 'officially' part of the family yet that his trophy should have an Asterisk on it because it doesn't really count. Well he won, fair and square and no asterisk was put next to his name. So that is how we have had the trophy last year and now this year!
I was about to put Go...and the name of the final team I picked but I didn't want my family to read this and know who I picked yet and give them an advantage.
Go ______________ (hint to my family, I put the right number of underlines for the final team name I picked!)
3 comments:
I just finished filling out my bracket and was thinking I was going to post about how much I love March Madness on my blog!!
Oh my goodness, how fun!! Congrats on the trophy two years in a row. Good luck this time around! You Goolds are just too cute for words.
Hi Sheri,
I was so excited to see your blog. I went vt to Pam Rugg and she told me about your blog. It is so nice to see how good your are doing. I can not believe that you have been married a year now. Time sure does go by fast. You look vantastic. congats on your anivarsary. Lesia Hoopes
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