”One Shining Moment” is my favorite part of the NCAA Tournament telecast. It is the pumpkin pie after a delicious three-week Thanksgiving feast of great basketball. It is your reward from CBS for enduring countless hours of terrible analysis from Seth Davis and Clark Kellogg, horrid commentary from Billy Packer, 6,784 promos for The Masters, and the exact same commercial for ; an audio-visual “our bad” from The Eye that makes up for most of its faults, and simultaneously reminds you what’s so great about college basketball.
As I’ve said before, “One Shining Moment” is the best three minutes of the TV sports year, and CBS IS RUINING IT!!!! First, they used snippets of the song for a “How I Met Your Mother” commercial during the first weekend of this year’s tournament. “How I Met Your Mother”?!!! I enjoy the show, but using “One Shining Moment” to promote “How I Met Your Mother” is like cracking open a vintage bottle of wine to celebrate your mail being delivered. It’s crazy.
If that weren’t bad enough, CBS just played a brand new full-length “One Shining Moment” montage with clips from previouus NCAA tournaments. And they played it during the stupid Final Four preview show that no one watches. What a waste.
CBS, don’t you see that you’re overexposing one of your best assets? “One Shining Moment” is special. Literally special, as in exceptional, or rare. And by playing it over and over again you are turning into something ordinary, something expected, something played-out. You’re turning it into the “Black Eyed Peas”.
I know I shouldn’t expect restraint from the network that would broadcast “CSI: Topeka” if there was money in it. But in a time when everything unique and successful in entertainment is sequeled, trilogied, and spun-off into derivative, mindless garbage, I wish CBS would buck the trend and preserve the integrity of televised sports’ signature moment.
It’s called “One Shining Moment” for a reason.
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Laila Ali scares the shit out of me. That is a big girl. She did a really good job though. The boxing clearly helps her footwork. I could see her going far in the competition.
I don’t think Billy Ray Cyrus is very long for this competition. His performance was terrible. Oh, and Keith Urban called. He wants his entire look back.
The judges saw something in Clyde Drexler that I clearly did not. I thought his performance was pretty poor. He looked like me dancing, and that’s never good.
You know that AG and I are rooting for Joey Fatone of *NYSNC fame. How much freaking money does this guy have? Did you see them interviewing him in his garage with like twenty cars in it? Good times. Joey has a good sense of humor and seems well-matched with his partner. I see him doing well.
Shandi Finnessey is apparently a former Miss USA. Didn’t you expect her to say, “I was Miss USA back before you had to be a coke whore to win.” in her bio? Guess that’s just me. Anyway, her perma-smile is pretty creepy, but not near as creepy as the grill on her partner. That dude is weird. He’s eerily intense. You could tell he was straining to hide his disappointment that their score was so low. I’m pretty sure he’s home right now watching Vision Quest and cutting himself. Or something.
AG cannot get over how weird Leeza Gibbons’ eyebrows look in some of the shots in her bio. Botox, anyone? Check it out next week. It’s really weird.
I like how they list Heather Mills’ occupation as “Chartiy Activist”. Is it the “I’m Screwing a Beatle Out of His Fortune” charity? I guess they couldn’t list her occupation as Golddigger. As much as I can’t stand her, it is still pretty cool to see her dance. I’m really scared that she’s going to fall, or that her leg is going to come flying off and decapitate someone in the audience.
I don’t have an Ian Ziering joke handy, but I’m sure my man Jigga can fill one in here. He actually did pretty well for his first week, but the competition will get harder as the weeks go on. It will be much harder than that time Steve Sanders ___________________________ [insert something cheezy from “90210”]. Seriously.
Every year I fill out my NCAA Tournament brackets within 24-48 hours of the selections being announced on Sunday night. This means I am done by either Monday night or Tuesday night. Every year I tell myself that I am not going to mess with my picks, but every year I end up messing with my picks on Wednesday night or Thursday morning. Every year, my last-minute meddling ends up biting me in the ass.
This year I am making a public commitment to you , gentle blizzog reader, that I will not screw with my picks. Here is your Final Four, for better or worse.
Florida vs. Kansas
UNC vs Texas A & M
Finals = Kansas vs UNC
Champ = UNC
Write it down. You can either make fun of me or pay your respects in a few weeks.
