For many of us, march madness is the most exciting month of the year—it beats Christmas and birthdays. Unfortunately for the people around us, our passion for basketball can sometimes get annoying or out-of-hand. For those that have to put up with us, we’re awfully sorry for our behavior throughout this month.

We’re sorry for all the swearing under our breaths.

We don’t mean to have such dirty mouths, but when our brackets get screwed up from crazy games and ridiculous upsets, we can’t help but mutter angrily under our breath.

We’re sorry for constantly checking our phones for scores.

We know it’s rude to have our phone out at the table—and any other time we wouldn’t dare look at our phones—but at this time of year, we might freak out if we can’t constantly be refreshing our CBS Sports app.

We’re sorry that we occupy all televisions to watch games.

We know it's time to watch “Grey’s Anatomy”—and normally we'd be watching it with you—but you’ll definitely have to record it to watch later because we REALLY need to watch the games. Priorities people, priorities.

We’re sorry about the mood swings.

But seriously, you can’t honestly expect us to be calm and happy when our pick for national champion loses in the first round of the tournament and our bracket is ruined.

We’re sorry that basketball is all we talk about for the entire month of march.

We’re definitely not interested in anything other than the fact that a 14 seed team beat a number two seed team.