When I saw legislative staffers wheeling a TV into the House lounge Monday night, I thought I knew what was coming. Serious as our solons are, they have been known to sneak out to watch big sporting events during a floor session or two. I figured the NCAA men’s basketball championship would be a cool sideshow (and excellent fodder for this blog).
But lo and behold, as Kansas and Memphis battled to a thrilling overtime decision, Delegates were sparring over whether to outlaw video bingo machines. “Such discipline,” I thought.
Alas, we live in the age of laptop computers and streaming video. I couldn’t see this, but photo expert Max Franz found out as he walked the floor: everybody was watching cbssports.com.
You got me. (I may or may not have caught the end of the game on a colleague’s computer in the press pit.)
