tricking your wife into march madness

hello everyone. so this is all about march madness and how much fun you can have with it. michele is not much of a sports person. I have tried to get her to like more and more sports and increase her weekly exposure to it. when we first started to date, michele really never watched any sports. there are sports families and there are non-sports families. and when michele and I married, the non-sport family merged with the sport family. even though michele did not grow up in a sports family she is still competitive.

michele started to get used to watching football (or leaving me home to watch football) once a week on sundays during the bears games. every once in a while when a blackhawks, cubs, bulls, or UNH hockey game is on she will watch parts of the game with me. this however, is the first time in our relationship that michele has gone full throttle sports!!! it is awesome.

the key for march madness is that you have to fill out a bracket. without a bracket it means nothing. If you can get your significant other to fill one out you are half way there. the second part is the wager. make sure that whatever pool or wager you make it is large enough that they will want to spend time researching at least a little bit about who will win which games.

the last part is key not only because they put a good amount of time into the bracket (so they don't want to lose), but also they will actually do really well in the pool so they will keep watching!

michele came home a few days before the tournament with papers that had different ratings on all of the schools, plus she had background knowledge. I was shocked! then she filled out her bracket on her own, which was great because I couldn't influence her. now that the tournament is on she has been excited about every single game. I am not kidding she is probably going to win the pool...

now the only thing left is to see how to make the cubs, bears, bulls, blackhawks, and UNH into a tournament during their regular seasons...