The Seattle Seahawks have had a wild ride this past couple weeks. I have been the beneficiary of their good luck having won a dinner off my cousin (who is from Dallas) last weekend. However, before I could collect on the dinner, he had to take a business trip to Shanghai and so I doubled down with him, betting him that the Seahawks would pull off the upset of the Chicago Bears this weekend. This morning, I called up my friends Leah W. and Rich A., who are longtime residents of Chicago, and bet them dinner as well. When the game reached a climactic 24-24 tie with about 6 minutes left, my cocky self called up the two Chicagoites and Rich answered the phone. I offered the double down on dinner (I have to admit I am going to embarrass Rich here, but to hear him ok the double down with his wife was pricelessly domestic and whipped to boot).
The Seahawks lost in overtime 27-24 and thereby so did I. Leah and Rich will be getting a gift card from Carson's Ribs of Chicago. They will be treated to dim sum the next time they come out to San Francisco. And I get no dinner from my cousin.
Also, condolences to my cousin Jeff and his wife Ming (I'm not sure how much she cares) and Bryant for the San Diego Chargers loss to Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. We can all commiserate together at the losses of our hometown teams.
1 comment:
(1) This should serve as a good lesson to never bet against a statistician.
(2) I believe Rich checked with me since I was the one who originally agreed to the bet (of course, he's not a statistician, so this may have had something to do with it as well).
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