alt.sports.college.pac-10

On Oct 3, 9:53 am, John Mullins wrote:
> Greg Sumner wrote:
> > On Oct 2, 6:07 pm, Mike Pearson wrote:
> >> Greg Sumner wrote:
> >>> Vegas during a football weekend is not a bad place to be. Except when
> >>> I bet on the Ducks. You bastards cost me quite a bit. That's what I
> >>> get for betting on the Ducks I guess.
> >>> It occurred to me that even if Oregon had scored on that last
> >>> possession and then gone into overtime and won I still would've lost
> >>> the bet, since it was a - spread and they don't kick the extra
> >>> points in OT.
> >> Any particular reason (gone fishin'?) for the certainty of that last
> >> comment?
>
> > I wasn't sure Oregon would score again, I was just sure that in OT
> > there was no way for me to win my bet. It could have brought about
> > the worst-case scenario where Oregon still won the game but I lost
> > money ;-) Although as John points out, it still would have been
> > possible (however unlikely) to score 12 or 9 points in overtime,
> > covering the spread.
>
> Actually, UO could have easily scored first in OT, kicked the conversion
> and then held on to win by 7 and you would have covered, but it was much
> more fun to remind myself how much the latter part of 1996 sucked for
> USC :( (I remember being at Disneyland late that December with all of
> the happy Sun Devil fans... especially being happy to remind us Trojan
> fans that we weren't in the Rose Bowl that year :)
>
> John

See, I didn't think of that scenario either. I guess that 400% higher
tuition at USC actually does buy you a better education. And also a
few more Championships to boot.

Sigh....

Greg.