Well, if you're not into NCAA basketball (and I am not) you may not have heard that the University of Florida beat THE Ohio State University in the NCAA Finals last night. Normally, being a Michigander, and thus sworn to hate everything Buckeye, I would have been happy about this. However, I now live in Gator country south, full of UF Fans. If you've never experienced the joy of Gator fans and their obnoxious Gator chomp (you know that nifty move they do with their arms going up and down like an alligator mouth, witty I know) it's almost as bad as suffering through a football game watching the leprechan of Notre Dame. Yep, it's that bad. Thus, watching and hearing UF fans gloat over winning something as big as this is worse than hearing everyone from the state of Ohio refer to the state college there as THE Ohio State University which is pretty annoying unto itself. (What's up with the emphasis on THE anyway? Is there another Ohio State University? Do you really need to differentiate between this Ohio State University which is actually located in Nebraska and THE Ohio State University in Columbus?)

So I didn't stay up until midnight to watch UF beat OSU to a pulp, but I was secretly hoping that UF would lose. Take a little wind out of their sails. Hearing they won this morning brought forth this reaction: aw crap. It's not enough to listen to all those UF folk talk about how great they are winning the national championship in football, now I have to listen to them rant about how great they are in basketball too, not once but twice making it doubly crappy. Now we have to listen everyone in the state of Florida extol the virtues of Billy Donovan and Urban Meyer. Yuck.

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