Wisconsin really under-performed in basketball last year as well. Valentine probably lost a few million dollars today, though.
Ohio St won the national championship in football not that long ago breaking the SEC's streak. If the big ten are losers then it's a league full of losers with the big ten at the top of the shit heap behind the SEC. Wisconsin just made it to the finals in the NCAA tournament and lost what was a fairly close game. I'm not saying they're the conference of greatness, but I don't think calling them the biggest losers is fair. You're probably a gophers fan and I can't remember them doing anything of significance in my entire life time, but every conference has some teams that are complete shit year in year out.
Correct, I am a Gophers fan and I've bitterly resigned myself to the fact that their men's basketball and their football teams will never, ever, amount to anything. I suppose I should consider hockey, but I'm greedy and won't be happy unless all the teams are good.
Speaking of the NCAA tournament, did anybody think the seeding this year made zero sense or was it just me? Granted, I'm not anything even close to an expert on college basketball, but it was as if they picked the ranked teams and just threw darts at a board to see where they would land. There is always going to be a few spots every year you can nit pick, but this year really seemed ridiculous. Indiana for example. How the fuck are you only a 5 seed when you have the best conference record in one of the top 4 conferences? It's not just Indiana though, so many teams were out of place. Well, there's that and who really gives a shit about college hockey? I enjoyed watching my team play live when I was in college, but no one tunes into that shit when it's on tv. If it's even on. The main reason Minnesota has so many top teams isn't really that they're such stellar programs, it's that nobody else cares. Their wrestling team is typically top notch as well, for similar reasons.
Well it should make you happy the gophers had a bitterly medicore this year on the ice. Next year, I will be joining you in your misery, I'll be at UMN getting a Masters.
Kind of weird... Yesterday I stopped on the way home and bought some beer. The clerk asked me "Did you used to play basketball?" Fair enough, I still get that often enough, not every day, but probably a couple dozen times a year. Today, same store buying beer, another customer asked me the same question. I can't even remember the last time I was asked twice in the same week, let alone on back to back days in a place I rarely go. Maybe it's because of the tourney....
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Good riddance. I fucking hate that website, especially their snarky and holier than thou approach to everything. I know very little about this particular case, but the people who illegally post nude celeb photos and sex tapes are pieces of shit who deserve to be ruined. That right there is what moves them in my mind from stereotypically annoying gossip site to delusional assholes who deserve to be taken down a few notches.
This morning I had to take a pregnant co-worker to the hospital when her water broke. It's amazing how many people don't understand that hazard lights = get the fuck outta my way! On focus, only time I've ever won anything was once at a sporting event when I was put on the big screen during a "groovin for groceries" promotion for a local grocery store chain. The game was nationally televised and I didn't realize I was on the actual broadcast until I got home. I did the robot. Won $100. Not one of my prouder moments. But at least I won.
I have ridiculously awful luck, but I did win a vintage ad featuring Rita Hayworth from a old issue of Harper's Bazaar once, and after I bought my first piece of art (like, craft fair art, not gallery art) the artist ended up running this contest where if you uploaded a picture of your painting in your house to Facebook she'd randomly pick someone to win a second painting and it ended up being me. So those were cool. As for brisketbrawl, on a whim I filled out a bracket to fit in with my friends who I always yell at for talking about sports too much. When the guy who's scoring mine told me my picks were surprisingly good, "like it looks like it's by someone who actually knows things about basketball," my ego was totally inflated and I got super hype and started betting everyone on everything. As you may have noticed, my gambling career is not going so well for me so far. I still haven't figured out what my wager is going to be if I win. Honestly the satisfaction of beating people who know what they're doing is good enough for me, but clearly I need to come up with something amazing.
Not a raffle but I won a NRA 125 anniversary commemorative pin by scoring all bullseyes in a little competition after completing my hunter safety course when I was in 5th grade. It's cool to me.
In my experience with office pools, the person that usually wins is the person who knows nothing about sports. They win by picking teams with the prettiest colors,a team name that reminds them of a childhood pet, a place where they had the best hamburger of their life, and a player with dreamy eyes and a cute butt. And we are all very grateful.
I came this close to asking the old man taking pictures of the birds outside of the Flamingo if it was you. He wasn't 7 feet tall though. I have to say, I fucking hate gambling at casinos. I'll be lucky to win a single hand before my money is gone.
This was more or less my strategy, but I also involved a lot of judgment about where the teams were from in ways that are both useful and useless when it comes to basketball. I've decided that my wager is any time they start to talk about sports in my presence they have to preface it with "Not that I know as much about sports as [audrey] but" for the rest of the calendar year, and if they forget I get to ask a reasonable favor of them.
FTFY. Then again, that could quickly turn condescending and sarcastic sounding, so why not also add that they have to make you a plate of nachos. Yummy, yummy, nachos. Crap. Now I'm hungry.
I used to win radio contests all the time in high school. The keys are 1) participate early in the morning. Not as much competition then. 2) Use a land-line phone. With a cell phone, by the time the signal gets relayed back from space, the station's phone lines are already full. The ironic part: I always won stupid bullshit, like a T-shirt, or tickets to a sporting event that I had no interest in seeing. The best thing I ever won: I won $100 in a banner contest for an Aerosmith concert about 10 years ago. The local rock station was giving out tickets, money, and assorted swag for the top three banners that had 1) The name of the radio station, and 2) Had "Aerosmith" somewhere on the banner. I had made a design for an Aerosmith t-shirt a couple of years before, so I just pulled out my original drawings, and transferred them onto a king-sized bed sheet folded in half. I used acrylic paints, and I did everything except the lettering in the Aerosmith logo, which my ex-wife did (we were still together at this point). I think it came out pretty damn good, and I've still got it to this day: Spoiler: Awesomeness She and I camped out in front of the venue to get tickets, which was a smart move, because they sold out about half an hour after they went on sale. The $100 we won was used to buy an extra ticket, that she scalped to one of her co-workers.