I was at a Wrigley Field rooftop game once and won a raffle. Scored a real Wrigley Field seat that had been sitting in the park for 60 something years and was ripped out when they did the reno.
Pretty cool, has a nice framed plaque showing where in the ballpark the seat was.
I had a home bar for a long time and kept it in the bar room, now it sits in storage cause I have no proper place for it.
Pretty cool, has a nice framed plaque showing where in the ballpark the seat was.
I had a home bar for a long time and kept it in the bar room, now it sits in storage cause I have no proper place for it.
When I was in college and broke in 1996 making about $150 a week part time at a pharmacy me and some friends went out to shoot some pool one Monday night.
Got drunk and started betting some dude about 3x my size . Several double or nothing bets later I was down $800. That was about 3 months pay for me.
Did not know what I was going to do. This guy looked like the type that would get physical if I did not pay.
And besides that I would want to pay anyway because u would never stiff no matter what.
But I was 19 and an idiot.
Anyway this was a Monday night. When I walked in the door they had a 100 square $10 a square(winner take all) pool for the Monday night football game that night.
Forgot all about it because I was getting my ass kicked playing pool I did not even check to see what my numbers were.
Right about the time I was about to give this guy the news that I only had $12 to my name the club announced my name on the PA saying I won the $1000 pool could I please come pick up my money at the bar.
It might as well have been a million bucks.
That was and still is the most axilerating feeling I have ever had winning something.
I took the 1k, payed the guy his 800 and bought drinks for everyone
Then I played some more pool with the same guy. Got hot and got 200 of the 800 I have him back
Got drunk and started betting some dude about 3x my size . Several double or nothing bets later I was down $800. That was about 3 months pay for me.
Did not know what I was going to do. This guy looked like the type that would get physical if I did not pay.
And besides that I would want to pay anyway because u would never stiff no matter what.
But I was 19 and an idiot.
Anyway this was a Monday night. When I walked in the door they had a 100 square $10 a square(winner take all) pool for the Monday night football game that night.
Forgot all about it because I was getting my ass kicked playing pool I did not even check to see what my numbers were.
Right about the time I was about to give this guy the news that I only had $12 to my name the club announced my name on the PA saying I won the $1000 pool could I please come pick up my money at the bar.
It might as well have been a million bucks.
That was and still is the most axilerating feeling I have ever had winning something.
I took the 1k, payed the guy his 800 and bought drinks for everyone
Then I played some more pool with the same guy. Got hot and got 200 of the 800 I have him back
Won a contest with Danon yogurt. About 50 people won. You got a chance to enter a preliminary dunk contest. Top 3 dunk at halftime of the bullets game. The only catch was that the preliminary contest was with your mom. My mom couldn't make a dunk to save her life. Came in fourth, lol. My best friend finished in the top 3 and actually won the contest at the game. It was tons of fun though. Still mad @ mom dukes though,lol
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I won tix to see Parliament-Funkadelic on a radio show. Asked this smoking hot Columbian girl I hung with (and had a crush on) to go with me...she says yes....we go to the show, are having a good time and then get separated for a bit....about 20 mins later I look up on stage and there she is grinding with some ripped back-up dancer/contortionist...needless to say I went home solo....lol
When I was in fourth grade, there was a guess the number of gumballs thing at school and I won. Got to go down on the field and meet the Cardinals players and participate in batting practice (5 swings and shag balls). Ozzie Smith was so nice that there will never be a athlete that I hold in higher regard.
tons of things on Vancouver radio stations. My favorite was back-to-back years I won HOT SEATs membership for Ticket Master. I got 2 tickets to every concert, play, symphony, movie premiers and almost any event that came to Vancouver that Ticket Master promoted. I would get Albums/Cd's, T-shirts and food/drink certificates with the tickets. Sometime even limo rides to and back from the event. So for 2 entire years I saw all the great bands and events with prime seats. Sometimes there were 2 events going on the same night so a lot of my friends benefited from my winnings. :aktion033
1983 I think. I called the local radio station giving away tickets to go see the U2 "WAR" tour at the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia. I started to speed dial vs the fast busy signal and around the fourth attempt i got thru and won. I was a HUGE U2 fan at that time... right before they became popular. In all my excitement i hung up the phone by accident. I won... but i didnt get shit because i hung up. @$!/!$#: !!!!
