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Old Thu Mar 19, 2009, 05:38pm
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March Madness is a national pastime, true, but that phrase includes the women's games which don't start until Saturday. For me, that's when the excitement starts. So Nevada expressed his opinion, I expressed mine. NBD.
Interesting then that the NCAA men's championship site uses the phrase about a dozen times and the women's site uses it.....not at all.
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Didn't "March Madness" originally refer to the Illinois state high school basketbal tournament? Something about, "Play early, and play often", or something like that?
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Old Thu Mar 19, 2009, 07:05pm
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Didn't "March Madness" originally refer to the Illinois state high school basketbal tournament? Something about, "Play early, and play often", or something like that?
The term was apparently first used by the Illinois High School Association. And the IHSA sued a few years ago for the copyright laws or exclusive right for this game. The NCAA put out a video game called “March Madness” back in the mid to late 90s and the IHSA sued to have them remove the name from the game or give them money for the use of the term.

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Old Fri Mar 20, 2009, 10:56am
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Interesting then that the NCAA men's championship site uses the phrase about a dozen times and the women's site uses it.....not at all.
Alright, I'm going to get crucified and will probably have to delete this:


Since they don't use March Madness how about 'It's that time of the month'
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Old Fri Mar 20, 2009, 01:31pm
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Alright, I'm going to get crucified and will probably have to delete this:


Since they don't use March Madness how about 'It's that time of the month'
Since when do people on this board get crucified for saying something irrelevant and stupid?
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Old Fri Mar 20, 2009, 03:12pm
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Since when do people on this board get crucified for saying something irrelevant and stupid?
This is a good point.
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This is a good point.
Huh?
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Old Fri Mar 20, 2009, 03:30pm
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Huh?
Try to be more relevant next time. Sheesh!
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