Photo: Leonard McCombe/The LIFE Picture Collection via GettyĪccording to the Washington Post, requests for vasectomies explode all over the country just before the first week of March Madness, sometimes by as much as 50 percent. You will never EVER fill out a perfect bracket It wasn’t long before local writers copied the moniker, which blew up in the 40s and 50s. Porter, the Illinois High School Association’s executive secretary.
This was a time before the NBA and before NCAA basketball had become popular, so this high school basketball fever that had swept the state was dubbed “March Madness” by Henry V. The annual high school boys basketball tournament started in 1908 and by the late 1930s had over 900 schools competing for the state crown. “March Madness” was born in the state of IllinoisĪccording to the IHSA website, “March Madness” all began in the Land O’ Lincoln, birth-state of yours truly. Sure, just as many women watch the Tournament, but they’re honest.
According to Yahoo! Sports, 14 percent of the country men will play hookie to get their Madness on. But even after decades of watching - and playing - my favorite sport, I was even quite stunned to learn some new things about March Madness. The camera shots of grown men crying over whether or not an 18-year-old kid can put a ball in a hoop. But it’s called March Madness for a reason.
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