Announcement: Football Time NCAA Tourney Competition

Posted by On March 13, 2014 1 Comment

Sometimes writers just get lucky. This is one of those times.

Perusing Twitter during this fine *Peak* Basketball Thursday, the good folks over at @BustedCoverage found this gem:

My thoughts on this, without committing libel, were three fold:

1) I have to know more about this guy. Don’t we all, really? So I researched other Twitter examples of @Tizzblack’s work. What did I find? Along with the picture of his latest dermatological upgrade, there were several explicit NSFW pictures, sent repeatedly and seemingly at random. Then there was this:

Dude was born for rebellion, after all.

2) That went viral fast. Darren Rovell was already talking to @Tizzblack about his masterpiece as of Thursday evening.

 

The power of the internet is not to be trifled with. Sometimes for good. Sometimes for evil.

3) This is so Kentucky. If I needed to paint a picture of a large portion of that fan base with a single, beautiful image, then this would be the one. Thanks @Tizzblack.

I welcome your comments in the space below. Troll responsibility.

Onward.

The best part of this time of year is filling out your bracket and blindly choosing teams you’ve never heard of with the confidence of whatever Jay Bilas just said on TV to back it up. Yet, inevitably you’ll be tearing your bracket up at the end of the first weekend and watch Jane in Accounting win again or have Phil’s Mom beat you down. Jane doesn’t even watch basketball. Phil’s Mom has issues pronouncing the names of the schools. The injustice. We here at Football Time want to join in on that sweet action.

The winners of our competition will get some cool Vols swag courtesy of one Reed Carringer.

First Place: $30 gift card to Alumni Hall

Second Place: The upcoming editions of Football Time AND Basketball Time in Tennessee mailed to your door before they hit newsstands. 

Third Place: The upcoming edition of Football Time OR Basketball Time in Tennessee mailed to your door before it hits newsstands.

So join us right here. You can submit up to 3 brackets and you have until the Round of 64 begins to submit your picks. Good luck to all and congrats to @Tizzblack on the new ink.

About The Author


TJ Hatter is a recovering lawyer and perpetual foreign policy wonk. He serves FootballTime.com as a columnist. He's a native New Yorker, honorary Southerner, and confirmed Anglophile. His work has been featured on Football.com, outkickthecoverage.com, dimemag.com, atlantic-community.org and TJHatter.com. He's an alumnus of The University of Tennessee College of Law, The University of Edinburgh, and SUNY Oswego. He looks forward to your ad hominem attacks on Twitter at @TJ22Hatter.