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Thursday, August 10, 2006

YCS Greatest Bracket Ever (Wil Cordero Bracket)

FIRST ROUND
#1 Miracle on Ice vs. #16 Yellow Chair Sports
#8 Bob Uecker vs. #9 Larry Bird (or any white NBA player for that matter)
#4 Joe Montana vs. #13 Leather Pants
#5 Mozart vs. #12 Lee Corso's baseless predictions
#3 Brett Favre vs. #14 Bryce Drew's shot in 1998 NCAA Tournament
#6 1996 Chicago Bulls vs. #11 The Magna Carta
#7 Payne Stewart's Getup vs. #10 Ed Hockulee's Massive Guns
#2 Pele vs. #15 Chief Knock-a-homa

RESULTS
-- Who are we kidding? We suck.
-- Larry Bird played 82 games a season. Uecker calls 162 games a season….drunk.
-- Digger Phelps is vindicated, as he argued that Leather Pants should have been left out of the tournament in favor of a 17-11 Notre Dame team. Montana.
-- Lee Corso claims he'll win because he's "tougher than Mozart", and he's right. Mozart was a foppish dandy.
-- Bryce Drew took it on himself to take a mid-major to the Sweet 16 one year. Brett Favre takes mid-major talent and turns them into Pro-Bowlers year after year.
-- The '96 Bulls may have been the best team ever, but the Magna Carta was the foundation of hundreds of modern governments.
-- Ed Hockulee's guns could be seen from the other side of the stadium. Payne Stewart's pants could be seen from space.
-- Pele was named athlete of the century by the IOC. Knock-a-homa was the most racist mascot in the history of sport.

SECOND ROUND
#1 Miracle on Ice vs. #8 Bob Uecker
#4 Joe Montana vs. #12 Lee Corso's baseless predictions
#3 Brett Favre vs. #11 Magna Carta
#2 Pele vs. # 7 Payne Stewart's Getup

RESULTS
-- The Miracle on Ice has only been depicted in one major film in the last 20 years. Bob Uecker was in Major League and Major League II.
-- Lee Corso claims he'll lose because because Kirk Herbstreit said he'd win and Lee wanted to be a contrarian little bastard. He's wrong. Montana in a rout.
-- Favrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre
-- Pele coined the phrase "the beautiful game" and his tenure with the New York Cosmos was the first step for American soccer in the mainstream. Payne Stewart's getup on the other hand was just fugly.

SWEET 16
#8 Bob Uecker vs. #4 Joe Montana
#2 Pele vs. #3 Brett Favre

RESULTS
-- Despite much less athletic talent, Uecker has had much more staying power.
-- A match that should have taken place in the final. Favre has won 1 Super Bowl and appeared in another. Pele has won an NASL Soccer Bowl (1977) with New York Cosmos, three World Cups with Brazil (1958, 1962, 1970), and two Intercontinental Cups with Santos FC. Pele...on penalty kicks.

QUARTERFINALS
#8 Bob Uecker vs. #2 Pele

RESULTS
-- Pele stopped playing competitively in the 1970s. Uecker just keeps on rolling. Uecker to the Final Four!

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