The first Sweet Sixteen March Madness games will get underway tonight, and their start times are ridiculous.
The first game between Loyola and Nevada doesn’t start until after 7:00 EST p.m., and FSU vs. Gonzaga doesn’t begin until after 10:00 EST. Are you kidding me?
That means those of us on the East Coast have no chance of getting to bed before midnight. Hell, we’ll be lucky if we’re in bed before one in the morning.
I love March Madness, and wait for it to roll around all year. There’s nothing else like it in sports, but these start times for the Sweet 16 games are so unnecessary. Why not start everything two hours earlier? Or just an hour earlier? That would give everybody who wanted to find a television for the games plenty of time. Starting them after 10 EST is out of control, and there’s no excuse for it.
The NCAA and CBS are essentially giving the middle finger to all of us out here grinding everyday by getting up before the sun is up. I wake up so early that I can’t remember the last I missed a sunrise. It’s all part of building a massive empire, which I’m well on my way to doing. You know what else you have to do in order to build an empire? Watch every single second of March Madness. That’s not the easiest thing to do when the games start hours after the sun goes down.
I guess I’ll have no choice but to grin and bear it. I’ll be up until some unreal hour in the morning so that I don’t miss anything, and then I’ll wake up when it’s still pitch black out. Do I want to do this? No, but I’ve been left with no choice.
Shoutout to all the big brain geniuses behind the television schedule who weren’t capable of figuring this out.