| Feb. 5th, 2007 @ 01:14 am XLI! |
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Current Location: space
Current Mood:  mischievous
Current Music: Baby Monitor, volume 4
XLI... Sounds like some 'new' video card technology doesn't it? hehe. Well, no, it means 41, which is the number of today's Super Bowl!!!
I am certainly no fan of football (the american kind, for ye brits ;)), but I enjoy the social gatherings of SB Sunday. We had a big get together today at Bruno's Pizza with co-workers and anyone else they invited.
Compared to most super bowls, I'd say this one today was pretty damn good. It was too-close-to-call up until about the 4th quarter. But many many exciting events took place up until that point.
It started off with a huge bang! The colts kicked off to the bears, and the bears returned the ball *92 yards* in *14* seconds to make a field goal. *14* seconds after the start of the game and there's already a field goal!!! How cool is that?!
The rainfall was practically torrential during most of the game, which just added to the fun. There were probably at least 6 fumbles because of the slippery ball, and fumbles are always the most exciting part of the game, seeing the team members just freak out and scramble for the ball and generate a pile-up of about 15 guys, hehehe.
Another exciting part of this game was that there were 3 Challenges to the referees' calls. When you make a challenge, you are risking a Time-Out. If the ref ends up not agreeing with your Challenge, you lose a Time Out, which are critical (so they say) in the 4th quarter, so it's a big risk. It was fun to watch the 10 different angles of those challenge plays and listening to the local crowd yell and holler about what they felt the proper call should have been.
The MF crowd however seemed pretty one-sided, towards the Colts. Oddly enough. There was one bears fan in the crowd. And, I was a Bears fan too, though I have yet to admit it, heh. I may confess in an upcoming email to the group ;). I'm not social enough or have a loud enough voice to have fun repartee with the opposition crowd at such events, hehe.
On to the "g4mbl1ng" (incase the feds are watching, I'll encode the phrase!!! hehe)... There was a 10x10 grid, 100 squares, where you buy a square for $5 each. After it fills up, numbers 0-9 are assigned to the X- and Y-axis, so if the score is 19-12 the person at square 9-2 gets the win. A winner is picked at the end of each quarter. Payouts are $100, $150, $100, $150 for each quarter respectively.
I missed out on getting in on the $5/square chart, so just before the game I created my own .50cent chart :). $1 gets 2 squares, heh. It was dubbed the Good Luck grid. I got 74 out of 100 squares filled before the end of the first quarter (thanks to Julie!!!). We collected $37, so payouts were $9.25 each quarter. Just a little fun side-betting project.
Julie and husband Ron got 16 squares out of generosity to help fill out the board. Several other people got 10 squares on my board and I got 8 myself. As it ended up, Julie/Ron ended up winning the 1st, 2nd, and 4th quarters hehehe, for $27.75, and I won the 3rd (yay!!) for $9.25.
As for the more exciting $500 board, the score at the end of the first and second quarters were 12-7 and 22-17 so the 2x7 person won the first half, heh, $250 to that person (who apparently knew nothing about how the grid worked and wasn't present! ha).
Scott won the $100 3rd quarter and then.... even I am amazed at this... The colts were around the 20 yard line on their 4th down in the 4th quarter with like 56 seconds to go. Easily a 3-point field goal, which would have made the 3rd quarter grid winner the winner for 4th quarter as well.
BUT THEY RAN IT!!!! What the hell kind of team RUNS on a 4th down from 20+ yards away instead of kicking a 3-point when they're 12 points ahead already!???!
hehe, poor Scott. He was lamenting the moment for a full hour. But I agree with him!! WTF?? That was just strange strategy, unless the colts feared the bears would return another 92-yard FG on the turnover, which I strongly suspect must have been the reasoning behind that decision.
Perhaps what added to his hour-long diatribe was the fact that he bought the house 3-pitchers of beer after his 3rd quarter winnings, hehe. So there was plenty-o-booze flowing during the 4th quarter. Twould be fun twere I 'single' to join in on such a boon. Though, it was a mere tinkle in the bucket compared to last years SB when Gene won a quarter and bought *10* pitchers of beer for everyone!!! hahah. again, I wish I could have partaked in that imbibing as well as I was more than willing to help out ;).
Alas, I think I have rhetoricked about this subject enough to dull anyone's mind, or perhaps I have elaborated enough for someone to think, "hey, that was a nice break from work. time to go back to path-clipping this 12-string Rogue guitar...." (j/k!) heh. hmm maybe that quote will boost our google SEO ranking! :P hehe
Goodnight Medford!! I'll be here all week!
-=o0 andrew 0o=-
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