Michael Jordan roots on alma mater North Carolina at national championship game
Michael Jordan, famously, went to North Carolina before moving on to NBA superstardom and general demigod status.
With his Tar Heels in Monday's national championship game, Jordan attended the title tilt in Houston and immediately put all manner of crying Jordan meme possibilities into play.
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If the Tar Heels lose, the Jordan memes will be merciless. (But this is the Internet, so they'll be merciless either way.) Fans didn't wait to start having fun with the national championship game's most famous guest, though.
Many, many people tweeted photos of the crying Jordan meme before the game had even, ended, too -- but this was the only good one.
At time of this writing, the game's crying Jordan sacrifice outcome had not been decided.
Sam Laird is Mashable's Senior Sports Reporter. He covers the wide, weird world of sports from all angles -- as well as occasional other topics -- from Mashable's San Francisco bureau. Before joining Mashable in November 2011, his freelance work appeared in publications including the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slam, and East Bay Express. Sam is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and basketball and burritos take up most of his spare time. Follow him on Twitter @samcmlaird.
