Dumbest halftime contest ever

[AntAltMike]

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.

 

[charper1]

My guess is $15k - $20k per year depending on your choice; I also assume that from her prize she will have to pay taxes, but $60k or so could give her the opportunity at a great basic years education; what if she wants to be a doctor? $$$$$


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[osu1991]

They have been doing that contest at halftime of the Dr Pepper sponsored SEC and Big 12 championship games for many years now.

 

[AntAltMike]

Had anyone previously used the two-hand push shoot?

 

[AntAltMike]

I just watched a similar contest at halftime of the Oklahoma/Nebraska game. The winner made all ten. I didn't see the loser miss any, so he either made nine or perhaps the winner finished first. In any event, their results tend to repudiate my conclusion that using the push shot throwing technique was superior to using a conventional throwing motion. I'd say that the guy who only made five out of ten in the first contest choked.

 

[osu1991]

The loser had one hit the outside and fall in the opening, so the ref on his side didn't allow it.

 

[SabresRule]

That halftime contest was more entertaining and competitive than the 2nd half of the game.

 

[dvrexpander]

I would have made it a little different, the VT game they had two guys throwing and they both got the same in but on the 2nd run they had 5 balls but still 5 yards away, they should have moved them back 10 yards. They both made those 5 balls in and for some stupid reason they had some deciding factor done the day before where nobody in the crowd or on TV got to see...lame.
Best part about that whole thing was after which I watched VT stomp some Nole tail!

 

[SandraC]

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.

LOL how many DECADES? Apparently not only have you not been in college for a long time, you haven't had the fortune (and I do mean fortune) to put kids through school recently either!


Sandra

 

[Sparkman]

My son started college in the fall of 2005, at an out of state school, on a full academic scholorship. The 4 year value, without room and board was about $70000. Had he decided to go Northwestern or some other private school, that amount could not only be reached, but surpassed, very easily.

 

[Ramy]

They have been doing that contest for a while now.