The Madness of March

I have to admit, there's a small part of me that gets a little jealous when March Madness rolls around.  As someone who only just recently realized that a basketball game only has 2 periods, I don't have a clue how to properly fill out one of those grids.  Wait...grid isn't the right word, is it?  What are they called again? 

In college football, we get the mess of the BCS choosing who goes to the best bowl games at the end of the season.  College basketball gets a properly run playoff.

For me, the best part of march madness is knowing that I'm a mere 5 months of warm weather away from Opening Saturday of MY sport. 

I'll watch the final four cheering on either the ACC or the Big Ten (depending on teams of course) and then it's full speed ahead to August for me!

Talkin' Smack

I'm the Queen of Smack Talk.  I mean, come on!  I'm a buckeye - it's in our DNA!

My sophomore year at Virginia Tech, there was a mad dash to the bookstore because VT had decided to discontinue making T-shirts like:
"Friends don't let friends go to UVA" and "The Good (Hokie Bird) The Bad (WVU) The Ugly (Cavalier)" because they wanted to drive a promotion to supportive competition. 
Cool. 
I stocked up before I couldn't get them anymore.

Then I discovered smackapparel.com and my life changed.  My first discovery was a t-shirt that said, "Beating UVA: So easy a caveman can do it"  Check, I'll take one in a size small.

I'm all about friendly competition between schools and conferences, but you can't get much better a shirt that says "I'm too pretty to go to Bama"

Here I am modeling my fave #5 Superman (aka Tyrod Taylor) shirt:

Now, go to smackapparel.com and stock up for August!

Super Bowl of Advertising

Every year when the Super Bowl comes around, everyone waits in anticipation for the commercials.  Sure, it's exciting!

This may be due to my copious hours of Olympics coverage viewing, but I think the Olympics are the new Super Bowl of Advertising. 

Without a doubt my favorite commercials are the VISA commercials.  You know the ones I'm talking about.  Morgan Freeman's soft voiceover comes on telling an inspirational story about an Olympic athlete, and everything they overcame to reach their dreams.  I may sound blase about this, but seriously, these are my favorite commercials on TV!

The newest one I've seen, which goes with one of my favorite Olympic stories (and of course movies) is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kJjP2liGv4

And, of course I have to stick to my roots...nothing can top this commercial by ESPN for College Football Rivalry week:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5cVJUfjCqQ

Confession....

Okay, Confession:
I always go on and on about College Football being my favorite sport and the only sport I watch. Well, that's not entirely true.

I.
LOVE.
THE.
OLYMPICS.

There's just something about watching thousands of athletes from all over the globe coming together in one place to compete against each other in the name of their country. It's inspiring.

It's hard to say what my favorite thing about the Olympics are - I mean, how could I name just one thing?
The Opening Ceremonies
The National Anthem
Swimming
The Olympic torch relay
"Do you believe in Miracles?"
The Olympic Village
Medal Ceremonies
Watching the athletes warm up for competition
Speed Skating
Moguls
Track and Field relays
Beach Volleyball
Figure Skating
"You can do it, Kerri!"
the athletes families

I could go on and on.......
Turn on the TV, watch some Olympics and quietly chant, "USA...USA....USA" You know you want to!

Match Game

I've always loved a good game of "Match Game." You know...where you flip over a card with a monkey and try and hope that you'll randomly choose a blank card with a monkey and get to keep the pair.

At the end of the season, College Football Coaching turned into a solid game of Match Game. In case you didn't keep up (let's be honest...it was hard for me too) here's a little game of matching for you:

Urban Meyer sort of decided to leave as Head Coach at Florida - Match this up with Steve Addazio sort of taking over as Head Coach at Florida

Pete Carol left USC for the dollar signs in coaching in the NFL - Match this up with Lane Kiffin leaving his program at Tennessee to take over at USC

Charlie Weis got the ax at Notre Dame - Match this up with Brian Kelly leaving Cincinnatti to coach the struggling Fighting Irish program

Tommy Tuberville is leaving Auburn to coach at Texas Tech - Match this up with Mike Leach getting fired at Texas Tech for mistreating one of his players (yikes)

Bobby Bowden retired as the winningest coach in college football at Florida State - Match this up with Jimbo Fisher moving into the head coaching role at FSU

And finally...

All Hokies shed a small tear when Al Groh was asked to leave as head coach at UVA the day after Virginia Tech beat them for the 8th time in 9 tries - Match this up with beloved U of R coach, Mike London, leaving River City for Charlottesville and the Hoos in Hooville

Where am I?

So, it turns out I'm not as good at blogging as I thought I'd be. Yes, it has been 3 full months since my last post which means I made no smarty-pants comments throughout all of the conference championship games (Tebow crying...), the Heisman trophy ceremony (How adorrrrable is Mark Ingram?), or the BSC championship games. What kind of college football fan am I?!?

A busy one. The Martin Agency just won Advertising Agency of the Year, apparently my career took over my life!!

In the excitement of the Super Bowl today I realized how much I missed good ole Heisman girl so I'm going to keep you all entertained for the next 7 months until the kick off of the REAL football season.

In true Heisman girl fashion, I'm focusing my attention on tonight's Super Bowl on the battle of the E! Reality stars. Reggie Bush's girlfriend, Kim Kardashian vs. Hank what's-his-last-name's wife, Kendra. (Well that, AND the commercials. Come on, I work in Advertising!)

......Let's go Saints!

Rivalry Week

That's right friends, it's time for Rivalry Week. There's nothing like a good rivalry in college football - we live for this stuff, right?? I just love preparing for big games against hated rivals.

Every school has that one team and one game every year that matters more than any other. There's hype, there's tailgating and there is definitely a lot of yelling.

Here are some of the best college football rivalries out there:

Florida vs. Georgia - "The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party" - This series goes back to 1915 and Georgia leads 46-39-2

Texas vs. Oklahoma - "The Red River Shootout" - Dating back to 1900, Texas leads 59-40-5

Ohio State vs. Michigan - "The Game" - The first game between these two hated rivals was in 1897 and it pains me that Michigan currently leads 57-42-6

Auburn vs. Alabama - "The Iron Bowl" - Alabama has a close lead in this rivalry 39-33-1 which started in 1893

Army vs. Navy - Probably one of the oldest rivalries in college football, this series started in 1890 and Navy leads 53-49-7