Live from Southern California. This is the Jim Rome Show.

It never disappoints. You hear it from me every single year because it is true every single year.

Nothing ever lives up to the hype except March Madness, which always lives up to the

hype. This is why day one of the madness is almost always one of the best

days of the year. Yesterday was no exception. An incredible day for basketball fans everywhere. Well, almost everywhere.

Unless of course you're a member of the B. B. N. Big Blue Nation.

Unless of course you are in Lex Vegas right now. If you're listening in

Lexington right now, you're probably also trying to log on to a message board to vent and rage.

Except you can't because the BBN are crashing the BBN

message boards.

And they better get them back up quickly,

because the next step for the BBN

is taking to the streets with pitchforks and torches.

If you're trying to get into a Kentucky message board right now and you can't,

let me help you out.

They're coming for cow. They're blaming cow. They're done with cow. And I'm not really sure that cow is going to be able to win the BBN back after that.

Like again, as a good friend hit me with

the second that game ended, that was a wild jungle karma

result because both the coaches, Greg Campi and John Cal

Perry came on this week and they both crushed their respective interviews and

then Campi and Oakland crushed the big blue nation's big blue dreams

because while they were a very young team,

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