Lots of great football happening today. Who are you rooting for?

[Irish_Dem]

29. I am having a funny flashback. I was short one class my senior year due to

having moved around a lot as a military kid. So I took a current events class taught
by the football coach which I would never have chosen if I had a choice in the matter.

As part of the class he required that all of us in the class
pick the winners of the Saturday and Sunday football games of his choice.
He would go over all the teams and the good and bad. (Yes what does this
have to do with current events?)

He let the class divide into small groups to do their rankings of who would win.
I paired up with another girl, most of the class were male jocks.

The funny part is that this girl and I knew NOTHING about football, in fact neither one of us had ever watched a football game from start to finish. And we consistantly WON the betting pool. Every week we kept picking the winners.

I think it was some luck but other factors. The boys in the class were not the brightest bulbs and they were all emotional and sentimental about their picks. The other gal and I just
looked at the facts, the team's history, the statistics, etc and made our choice that way.
We still never actually watched the games.

The boys were really pissed off at us. It was so funny.
The teacher/coach was speechless but began to respect us.