March 16, 2004

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my

It's NCAA Tournament time! On the men's side (you heard it here first):

Badgers, Bearcats
Blazers and Blue Demons
Blue Devils and Broncos
It must be the season

Broncos, Buccaneers
Bulldogs and Cardinals
Catamounts, Commodores
Their fans lovin' it all

Cougars, Cowboys
Crimson Tide and Crusaders
Demon Deacons and Eagles
Hope it ain't "see ya laters"

Falcons, Illini
The Flames and the Friars
Forty-Niners and Gamecocks
All sayin' "we're triers"

Gators and Knights
Hawks and Hornets too
Huskies and Jaspers
Shoutin' "we're just not through"

Jayhawks and Longhorns
Miners, Mountain Hawks
Musketeers and Orangemen
Yellin' "you bet we rock"

Panthers and Pirates
Racers and Cajuns
The Rams and the Rattlers
No, they ain't done playin'

Red Raiders, Roadrunners
Salukis and Spartans
Spiders and Tar Heels
Not yet the Doc Maartens

Terrapins, Tigers
The Utes and Wildcats
Wolfpack, Yellow Jackets
Say "We'll throw in our hats"

For this is the time
When the Madness begins
When 65 goes to 1
And somebody wins!


Bad doggerel solely the responsibility of the author. No real poets were harmed during the writing of this material.

Posted by Linkmeister at March 16, 2004 12:01 AM
Comments

Go you Huskies!

Posted by: Scott at March 16, 2004 03:03 AM

Ah, but which ones? That nickname is claimed by two teams!

Posted by: Linkmeister at March 16, 2004 08:13 AM

And I see Cardinals, but no Cardinal!

Posted by: Jon at March 16, 2004 03:23 PM

I know, I know. There are a ton of multiple nicknames in there. Two each Wildcats, Bulldogs, Eagles, Flames (2 Flames??), Hawks, Huskies, Panthers, Wildcats and Wolfpack, and three Tigers!

Posted by: Linkmeister at March 16, 2004 03:32 PM

Doggerel or not, I'm impressed.

Posted by: shari at March 16, 2004 05:14 PM

I see the madness reaches far and wide... I've work for a Blue Devil and a Wake Forest alum, plus we've got folks from BYU, Michigan State and, of course, yours truly from UT. I personally am expecting the 'Horns to bow out early, so I'll be excited and surprised if they make it further down.

Posted by: Skatemom at March 17, 2004 04:40 AM

Steve - I grew up in Connectictut. Care to guess which college I went to? :)

Posted by: Scott at March 17, 2004 03:02 PM

This is probably the kiss of death...but....GO ORANGE!

Posted by: Raye at March 23, 2004 06:58 AM