So far, Dick Vitale has not been featured in a pro-vasectomy public service announcement. But maybe it's just a matter of time. 
Apparently the NCAA Tournament -- otherwise known as March Madness, the Big Dance or the best time-sucking sports event of the entire year -- has become the perfect time for men to get vasectomies. As the Chicago Tribune and other media outlets recently reported, more guys have been scheduling their snip-snip surgeries to coincide with the first round of college basketball action, mainly for practical reasons. If you have to sit around with a bag of frozen peas on your goodies, you may as well do it on days when television offers 12-plus hours of buzzer beaters and bracket busters.
This year, clinics and medical facilities in places like Minneapolis, Austin, Tex., and Eugene, Ore., attempted to capitalize on the trend by offering March Madness promotions. A clinic in Austin ran radio ads touting "Vas Madness!" And in Oregon and Minneapolis, some places offered free pizzas, sports magazines and, of course, complimentary bags of frozen peas to guys who elected to have the procedure. The Oregon Urology Institute even encouraged men to (ahem) "lower their seed for the tournament." Man, is there anything funnier than the intersection where college basketball comedy and medical humor meet?
Obviously it's too late to take advantage of this now, since the jumpshot-glutted first round of this year's tournament has ended. But tell me something, guys: if you're planning to have a vasectomy at some point, would you consider scheduling it around March Madness? Or do you think all this seed-lowering hype is a. amusing, b. offensive, or c. a distraction from what really matters at this time of year: the potential to win money from your co-workers?
Image: CBS via Newsday
