Michael's Top 10...

...reasons to support Team Golden Colon (financial or otherwise, we welcome all support).

10. Your support makes Katie happy. When Katie is happy, my life is much easier. Please make my life easier.

9. A little known cause of the American Revolution was that the British refused to donate money to the colonists for medical research. You can trust me on this, I'm a historian. Moral of the story: Don't be like the British (donations keep your teeth looking nice - it's karma).

8. The Team Golden Colon Bracket Challenge is not going well for me. This isn't really a reason you should donate, but I welcome any and all sympathy.

7. Buried in the fine print of this blog is a clause that for every time you visit the page, you must donate. That's the risk you run when you get lawyers (like Katie) involved.

6. If you help us reach our fundraising goal before June 1, I'll let you choose the ridiculous outfit I run the half marathon in.

5. Your donations are tax-deductible. This is your chance to get your effective tax rate below that of most millionaires.

4. The person/family which donates the most will receive an actual Golden Colon statue. Several hundred years in the future, an Indiana Jones type figure will risk life and limb to recover this from a ceremonial temple. You can have it before it's protected by booby traps.

3. If you donate, we won't be forced to send Lisa to your house to drool all over your stuff.

2. As we all know, the zombie apocalypse will start with a disease outbreak. Are you really willing to risk a zombie apocalypse by not supporting medical research into a disease which impacts roughly 1.4 million Americans? That's a lot of potential zombies.

1. In all seriousness, this is a good cause. Because of Crohn's Disease, I never had the opportunity to meet my father-in-law. Because of Ulcerative Colitis, I had to stand helplessly watching as my wife of six months had a crash cart called because a blood transfusion was not going well. These are selfish, personal reasons why I support Team Challenge and its mission to raise money for research into Crohn's and Colitis, but there are millions of families out there who could tell similar stories. Please, if you haven't already, consider supporting Team Golden Colon and help us fight these diseases.