Every march I look forward to filling out my bracket. The first time I ever did this was the '99 tournament. I remember getting into it because of some friends at school. Since then my family has started putting together a bracket group every year and for the most part everyone really gets into it. It's interesting to me how media has been able to do this. You can watch every game online and you can all post your brackets online for everyone to see. It makes it possible for the whole family to do something together that they wouldn't be able to do otherwise. Even when I was on my mission my dad would send me a bracket and I would blindly fill it out (having no idea what had happened during the basketball season. Last year when my wife and I were in Romania and my brother in Brazil and my family in St. Louis we were still able to come together via the NCAA tourney online and via mail. I think it's a pretty cool thing.
Today at church everyone was talking about it, especially BYU and KUs losses. It was a common topic that you could feel comfortable talking to just about anyone about. In reality the media has made it that way, without the internet and television it wouldn't be able to reach as many people as it does. In fact sports in general, like the weather in some respects, are common to most everyone. I had a friend who was really into sports and he boasted that because he knew so much about sports he could strike up a conversation with almost anyone, and it was true. Almost anyone he met he would try to talk sports to them and was successful in building friendships because of it. It is something that most everyone at least knows a little bit about and so we all hold it in common and it's because the media makes it widely available.
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