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 Welcome back
Your dreams [lousy winnings] were your ticket
out
Welcome back
To that same old place that you laughed about
Well the names
[teams] have all changed since you hung around
But those dreams have remained
and they've turned around
Who'd have thought they'd lead ya
Back here where we need ya
Yeah. we tease him
[you] a lot 'cause we got him [you] on the
spot
Welcome back
Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back
Welcome back, welcome back.
Yes,
this 2-minute theme song began every episode of the late 1970's TV show
"Welcome Back, Kotter". The show only had
24 minutes of runtime. Talk about a filler.
The
song, the show, and the era kind of sucked.
Except
for the 1979 NCAA Tournament bracket.
That
was Magic vs Bird
 In 1979,
Michigan State won their first national championship, keeping Indiana State
from a perfect season. The Sycamores had Larry Bird,
the tournament's leading scorer and rebounder, while the Spartans countered
with Magic Johnson. Michigan State won the title
game 75-64 as Johnson was named Most Outstanding Player.
Both
Michigan State and Indiana State made their first appearances in the national
final in 1979. It would be the last tournament
featuring a pair of first-time finalists until 2019.
This
was also the first tournament where the entirety of the field was seeded and
the only postseason with a 40-team bracket. Indiana
State was the lone No. 1 seed at the Final Four while Michigan State was a No. 2 seed. Ivy League member
Pennsylvania pulled off multiple upsets to reach the Final Four as a 9-seed.
There
also was no three-point line yet. That would not
appear in the NCAA Tournament until March 1987.
The
70's must have SUUUUUUUUUCKED
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