At halftime of the Auburn/South Carolina game.
Two fans had a short amount of time to throw footballs through the hole in the side of a giant Dr. Pepper can from five or ten yards away.
The guy threw the footballs like footballs and made five out of ten. The girl threw them like 1950s NBA set shots and made seven out of ten. Her prize was $123,000, to be applied towards her tuition. How many decades will she have to attend school to pay $123,000 in tuition? I know prices have gone up, but when I first attended my state university in the fall of 1970 we had the highest in-state tuition of any state university at $500 per semester.
I remember when there was a contest requiring a contestant to do something with a football that was more demanding, but the guy selected by lottery was 80 years old, so they changed the rule and said that either he could try it himself and compete for $1,000,000 or Roger Staubach could do it as his proxy and compete for $100,000. Unfortunately, Staubach missed, so they let him try again and gave the contestant the $100,000 as a consolation prize.
A few years back, there was a halftime fiasco when a selected fan had the opportunity to make a halftime shot for a lot of money and he successfully did so. Unfortunately, the terms of the guarantor were that the preselected fan could not have played at or above some level of organized ball for a certain minimum number of years, but the person screening this contestant apparently didn't realize that. I think the national sponsor wound up paying the prize out-of-pocket.
Someone once told Larry Bird of a halftime contest where, if a fan made four shots in 25 seconds - a layup, a foul shot, a three pointer and a half court shot - they'd get a car. Bird said he'd give it a try and made the four shots in four attempts, swishing the half court shot with seven seconds to spare. He then said if he had been doing it for keeps, he would have attempted the half court shot as a bank shot, so that if he missed, he'd have a better chance of getting a long rebound enabling him to take a second try at it.
Two fans had a short amount of time to throw footballs through the hole in the side of a giant Dr. Pepper can from five or ten yards away.
The guy threw the footballs like footballs and made five out of ten. The girl threw them like 1950s NBA set shots and made seven out of ten. Her prize was $123,000, to be applied towards her tuition. How many decades will she have to attend school to pay $123,000 in tuition? I know prices have gone up, but when I first attended my state university in the fall of 1970 we had the highest in-state tuition of any state university at $500 per semester.
I remember when there was a contest requiring a contestant to do something with a football that was more demanding, but the guy selected by lottery was 80 years old, so they changed the rule and said that either he could try it himself and compete for $1,000,000 or Roger Staubach could do it as his proxy and compete for $100,000. Unfortunately, Staubach missed, so they let him try again and gave the contestant the $100,000 as a consolation prize.
A few years back, there was a halftime fiasco when a selected fan had the opportunity to make a halftime shot for a lot of money and he successfully did so. Unfortunately, the terms of the guarantor were that the preselected fan could not have played at or above some level of organized ball for a certain minimum number of years, but the person screening this contestant apparently didn't realize that. I think the national sponsor wound up paying the prize out-of-pocket.
Someone once told Larry Bird of a halftime contest where, if a fan made four shots in 25 seconds - a layup, a foul shot, a three pointer and a half court shot - they'd get a car. Bird said he'd give it a try and made the four shots in four attempts, swishing the half court shot with seven seconds to spare. He then said if he had been doing it for keeps, he would have attempted the half court shot as a bank shot, so that if he missed, he'd have a better chance of getting a long rebound enabling him to take a second try at it.
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