Field of 64 (Seinfeld wins it! Seinfeld wins it! Oh my God, Seinfeld wins it!!!)

Re: Field of 64 (Bracket announced. It's a fun game, people!)

How to you want these, Mr. C?
One large IM? One IM per bracket?
Thanks

 

Re: Field of 64 (Bracket announced. It's a fun game, people!)

I'm so not in.

 

Re: Field of 64 (Bracket announced. It's a fun game, people!)

Same race.

 

Re: Field of 64 (Bracket announced. It's a fun game, people!)

NFL.com is doing this for the best team of all-time. I think it's down to eight.

 

Re: Field of 64 (Bracket announced. It's a fun game, people!)

Derp. Of course it was. I guess I didn't put two and two together since it's usually never referred to by who won the race. Also, it should have said "live, nationally-television, flag-to-flag" Daytona 500. ABC would cut into live coverage of Daytona 500s before that (I believe the end of the 1976 race was live on the East Coast at least.)

 

Re: Field of 64 (Bracket announced. It's a fun game, people!)

Here's my first-round bracket ;D


East
1 Jackie Robinson breaks MLB’s color barrier
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16 Greg LeMond becomes first American to win Tour de France

8 Bill Mazeroski’s HR wins World Series for Pirates
vs.
9 Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan knee-capping incident

5 NFL-AFL merger, birth of the Super Bowl
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12 Christian Laettner’s last-second shot sinks Kentucky

4 Secretariat wins Triple Crown
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13 Affirmed duels with Alydar, wins 1978 Triple Crown

6 Roger Maris breaks Babe Ruth’s single-season HR record
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11 Limping Kirk Gibson hits HR for Dodgers in 1988 World Series

3 Michael Jordan returns to Bulls after baseball stint
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14 Gene Sarazen’s double-eagle at the 1935 Masters

7 Arthur Ashe announces he has AIDS
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10 Arnold Palmer comes back to win 1960 Masters

2 Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling
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15 1940s college basketball point-fixing scandal

West
1 Jesse Owens in Nazi Germany
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16 O.J. Simpson runs for 2,000 yards in a single season

8 Gene Tunney-Jack Dempsey “long count”
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9 Red Sox-Mets, Game 6, Bill Buckner’s flub

5 Billie Jean King wins “Battle of the Sexes”
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12 California wins “The Game” while Stanford’s band storms the field

4 Bob Beamon breaks the long-jump record
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13 Nadia Comenici’s perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics

6 Jack Nicklaus wins The Masters at 46
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11 Franco Harris and “The Immaculate Reception”

3 Soviets beat U.S. for Olympic basketball gold
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14 Pete Rose becomes baseball’s hit king

7 Ben Johnson stripped of sprinting medals after positive steroid tests
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10 Don Larsen’s perfect game in the World Series

2 Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa surpass Maris
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15 Johnny Vander Meer becomes the first to throw two no-hitters in the same season

South
1 Munich Olympics hostage tragedy (My championship pick right here)
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16 Richard Petty wins first nationally televised Daytona 500

8 Lou Gehrig’s “Luckiest man on earth” speech
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9 Tiger Woods wins the 1997 Masters

5 All-black Texas Western beats all-white Kentucky for NCAA basketball title
vs.
12 Miami Dolphins’ perfect season

4 Roger Bannister’s 4-minute mile
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13 Babe Didricksen breaks 4 world records at Olympic trials

6 Joe Namath guarantees victory, Jets beat Colts in Super Bowl
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11 Joe Montana to Dwight Clark for “The Catch”

3 Red Sox’ Curse of the Bambino
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14 Loyola Marymount’s Hank Gathers dies on basketball court

7 Althea Gibson becomes first black player to win Wimbledon, U.S. Open
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10 Carlton Fisk homers in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series

2 Hank Aaron hits 715
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15 Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets heptathlon world record in Seoul

Midwest
1 Muhammad Ali vs. The Army
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16 Jim Thorpe owns 1912 Olympics

8 Wayne Gretzky traded to Los Angeles
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9 Reggie Jackson’s Mr. October, three HR performance

5 American sprinters wear black gloves during Olympic medal ceremony
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12 John Wooden retires a champion after UCLA beats Kentucky

4 Bobby Thomson’s “shot heard ‘round the world”
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13 Bjorn Borg-John McEnroe marathon match at Wimbledon

6 Formation of the World Series
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11 Elvin Hayes, Houston end UCLA basketball team’s winning streak

3 Black Sox scandal
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14 Mark Spitz wins seven gold medals at Munich Olympics

7 Cal Ripken breaks Gehrig’s record, becomes baseball’s Iron Man
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10 Florence Griffith Joyner owns Seoul Olympics

 

Re: Field of 64 (Bracket announced. It's a fun game, people!)

This is my 2nd year of running a "Beer 68" bracket...about 15 of my friends get involved. The hardest part is narrowing down the beers to 68 and then ranking them for each regional.
Last year we just through them in randomly. This year we have a Major Label bracket; Major crafts; Imports and a mish-mash of imports and regional breweries.
Down the the Elite 8 right now. Vote if you want: https://www.facebook.com/groups/135490896521654/

 

Re: Field of 64 (Bracket announced. It's a fun game, people!)

Oh sure, they match up the mid-majors horses in the first round.

 

Re: Field of 64 (Bracket announced. It's a fun game, people!)

I'd probably drop out if it was movies. I wouldn't be against TV shows, though.

 

Re: Field of 64 (Bracket announced. It's a fun game, people!)

I'd prefer TV shows, as well. To me, the current format requires too much thinking and analysis.

 

Re: Field of 64 (Bracket announced. It's a fun game, people!)

I'm in favor of porn stars...or sex positions.

 

Re: Field of 64 (Bracket announced. It's a fun game, people!)

Well, this will probably get more reaction. I take it that someone writing for Time Magazine must have been born after 1980. Are the seedings from their rankings as well? Was going to say that All in the Family not being a 1 or a 2 was surprising; then I saw Andy Griffith at 12 and did a spit take. (Cosby show at 12 as well.) Whole lot of recent shows that probably have no business here (I'll pick on Gilmore Girls & Bones as examples.) They must have won their conference tournaments to get in. Some of these I've not even heard of, but that probably says more about me than the shows. You could come up with a pretty long list of shows whose casts are stunned that they were put in the NIT. Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Tyler Moore, and either of Newhart's shows probably leading that list.

And no, dammit, I'm not that old. You can walk on my lawn if you like. (Just do it carefully.)