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The Men’s Final Four are set and they’re headed to Detroit which is right in Fathead’s front yard. As the number one sports city in America, Detroit takes great pride in hosting these sorts of events: The MLB All Star game, the Super Bowl and now the Final Four in a matter of just a couple of years. The Pistons, Red Wings and Tigers have all contributed to civic pride in the past few years by bringing post-season games and championships to the city.

Now the Michigan State Spartans have the chance to shine in front of the home-town faithful. I’ll admit that I didn’t pick MSU to win it all this year when I filled in my bracket a couple of weeks ago but I did have them making it this far. After these last two games I’m starting to believe that joining President Obama in my selection of North Carolinato emerge as national champions may not have been the best call. In fact, I’d gladly give up a bracket win for the much more meaningful victory of Sparty at Ford Field.

This raises in my mind the reasons we pick the teams we do when we fill out our brackets. Logic would seem to dictate that the largely more knowledgeable tournament selection committee does the seeding to represent those in the best position to advance and we should all just pick the number one seeds for the final four. We also know that it rarely turns out that way though this year it turned out pretty close to the truth. We all want our teams to win and it’s just really hard to accept that they might not. I spent eight years teaching at the University of Oklahoma and I always want the Sooners to do well. When I picked UConnto beat OU in the regional finals I was going against what my emotions wanted me to do and listening to what my brain and the selection committee told me was most likely to happen. Did I feel good when UConn advanced and my bracket standing went up – not really. Should we just embrace the madness that is March and forget about the seeding?

For now, yes. May the home team win! Let the people of Detroit and Michigan celebrate again! I know I’d rather see the Spartans win than be right about picking some teams I don’t really care about.

I’m sure you can imagine how much time we spend here at Fathead talking about the sports, players, and entertainers we represent and the ones we’d love to bring on board. Provided they’re Fathead worthy that is. March Madness has us speculating about which basketball players we expect to make the Fathead roster once they turn pro. We can’t do a Fathead of a college athlete no matter how good they are so let’s not even go there. Still, we’ve been throwing some names around here at Fathead Central and we thought we’d open up the forum to all of you out there in Fathead Nation. Tell us which players you’ve been watching this past week that you think are Fathead worthy and why. You never know what might sway us.

While the game of basketball is serious business, it is always nice to see the players out there just having fun!

LeBron James (Cleveland Cavaliers) and Shaquille O’Neal (Phoenix Suns) battle each other for the best pre-game ritual.

You decide, who does it better?

Jay Cutler from the Denver Broncos is stuck in the lurch between his team wanting him to stay and staying open for trade deals. At Fathead, we like to know where players will be ASAP so that we can make sure that we are the first product out in a new uniform. We hate the lurch. If you were Cutler, what would you want to do? Would you want to stay in Denver or look for a Super Bowl somewhere else?

Good morning fellow bloggers,

Today starts another great week and another great deal! Free ground shipping on all REAL. BIG. wall graphics. Use code: SHIPBIG during check out.

As always, we are adding a bunch of new products to the site. Here are just a handful of new images you can find this week: San Jose Sharks Logo, Arizona State Logo, UCLA Basketball Logo, Louisville Basketball Logo, Michigan State Basketball Logo  and many more…

Happy Shopping!

It’s time to raise the roof for your favorite team in this year’s college basketball tournament. Vote for your favorite school now! Then see how other fans are voting and how your school stacks up!

It just keeps getting better…

If you love our NFL Tradeables  just wait till you see the new MLB Tradeables! They are now for sale at Fathead.com. We have single packs and 10 packs available. Each pack contains (5) Fathead Tradeables, (1) team logo and (4) MLB Players. There are 180 total MLB Tradeables you can collect and every team is represented.

Also, you can save 20% off the single pack price when you buy the 10 pack (10 packs for the price of 8).

Today’s great names in baseball are all represented and many of them are also available as Real.Big. Fatheads including: Derek Jeter, David Ortiz, Alfonso Soriano, AJ Pierzynski, Albert Pujols, Carlos Beltran, Chase Utley, Chipper Jones, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Evan Longoria, Joe Mauer, Josh Hamilton, Prince Fielder, Ryan Howard and Vladimir Guerrero.

Check it out!

Fathead MLB Tradeables 2009

Dear friends,

Today we are rolling out  free 2nd day air shipping on our latest addition to the Fathead collection - the erasable bracket!

This offer is good until Tuesday, March 17th 2009.

Make sure you are ready for the madness!

Fathead NCAA Tournament Bracket