Like the normal hard core sports fan I like to pick the winners of everything. From the NCAA Tournament, to a semi meaningless game like Northern Iowa vs. Wichita State.

Last NCAA Tournament I made a bracket and entered it into one of ESPN's bracket challenge pools with about 50 other people I knew. Through the first round I had only missed one game and was ahead by a mile. By the end of the tournament, however, I was in dead last. I found my situation humurous.

So far ten of eleven games have been played in this year's NFL postseason. So far I have picked ONE of them right (Dallas over Philly), just ONE, unbelievable, my bracket is almost the exact opposite of the actual one. Oh well, that's just how things go in sports, you can never tell. That gives me an idea for another post, but it will have to wait. Saints fans should be anxious because I have them winning the Super Bowl.

I also found this situation a tad humerous and began to wonder why sports fans love to analyze games and pick who they think will win. Why Vegas creates Over/Under and point spreads.

I think sports is just a way to get away from our real lives. Most of us are being told what to do and how to do it nowadays and it's nice to be able to look at the data ourselves, make our own choices, create our own brackets, and scores and point spreads or whatever. Just how we, ourselves, like it.