No player inspires more sympahty - or seems more of a glutton for punishment - than Lyndsay Welsch. In addition to marrying Brandon, she also teaches Sixth Grade science - two things that would probably make me hang myself. To maintain her sanity, she plays lots of cutthroat Bunco with women twice her age, and entertains her husband with exciting science facts (Did you know, for instance, that the eye of a giant squid is about the same size as a basketball? Brandon does.)

Finally, she declares that Brandon is at least the fifth most important person in her life, behind Canton, their two-year-old son; Minnie, their pug; Pumpkin, their cat; and Daisy, their viszla (a prehistoric fish, I think). And even if you count the Bunco ladies, Brandon is still in the top twenty-five.