So if Michigan State wins the NCAA basketball tourney Monday night, I win our pool of $70. So the one guy who is not from the state of Michigan picks MSU to win… I have hope for the state and a dream for it’s future. I am running for Governor in 2030.
Ok so we had some buddies over to watch the final four. My roommate was visiting a friend (lady) in Lansing during the games, and my other roommate says “there is no way (he) is watching basketball right now!” To that I say “my good man, he most certainly is!” So we bet a Qdoba burrito on whether he was watching the game. So it turns out he was (duh) and now I am up a burrito.
So I am feeling my oats up about $6.50 before tax.
During the MSU game, when the Spartans were ahead, I tell the guys, “hey they should throw the ball really high in the air so UConn can’t foul them.” My other buddy says “you can’t throw a ball in the air for very long”.
And so it begins. We end up settling on a $5 bet to see if I can throw a basketball in the air for 3 seconds. I got 2 tries. We had two timers. I could only find a soccer ball so I used that. For my first try I used the world’s strongest man keg toss between the legs move and got a time of 2.9s and 3.1s. So I did it again but this time with a one arm bowling huck type motion. I hit 3.0s exactly on both clocks to win the bet. But then my buddy said the bet was with a basketball. SO NOW I AM PISSED. We go into the house, INFLATE A BASKETBALL, and do it again. This time I have some juice flowing because it is cold and this is ridiculous. I tried to stand on higher ground to give myself more air time, but he called me out on it. So to make this story end, I threw it for a clean 3.2 seconds and made 5 bucks. I am not sure if I could ever clear the 4s barrier, but I haven’t been doing targeted weight training either…
Good meal and a good game with good friends. We bought some ice cream and also went and highjacked a grill from a co-worker friend who said I could have her grill since she is moving.
Sports, wings, competition, prop bets, petty larceny, gambling, ice cream, beer, beans, brats, beets, bears, Battlestar Galactica.
April 6, 2009 at 3:27 am |
So, how high did you toss this ball to have it in the air 3 seconds? (or 3.2 seconds). I guess I could probably do some sort of physics equation to figure it out, but the only one coming to mind right now is e = mc^2, so I don’t think that’s going to help.