How to win the office Super Bowl betting pool

Feb 6th, 2006 by Accidental Thinker

Show extreme apathy and disinterest in all things sports-related.
Abstain from participating in betting pools of any kind for at least 8 years on the job.
Allow yourself to finally be coerced, against your will, into writing your name in some boxes on a spreadsheet at $1 a pop.
Don’t even pretend to understand the complicated scoring rules that determine who wins.
Don’t go anywhere near a TV during the actual game.
Don’t bother checking the score when you get home later that evening.
Wait for someone to tell you on the elevator the next morning (with a little jealousy in their voice) that you are the big winner.
Voila! Your $5 investment becomes $40 and you treat your family to a lovely Mexican dinner with your earnings.

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13 Responses to “How to win the office Super Bowl betting pool”

on 07 Feb 2006 at 4:31 am1Mike (exscientia)

Even a blind chicken finds a little corn once in a while. Bwahahahahahah!! 🙂

Congratulations. You SHOULD have bought a Lotto ticket that day …. you could have treated the family to a Mexican Restaurant; maybe two, or eight, or a whole chain. 😉
on 07 Feb 2006 at 6:17 am2jona

Lol, tis always the way! And I agree with Mike – go buy a lottery ticket ;o)
on 07 Feb 2006 at 8:40 am3Ivy the Goober

One time at work they wanted my dollar for a Mondy night football thingy. They had a list of each game – team vs team – then you go down the list and circle which team you think would win. I don’t care one bit about football, so first I picked the teams that I knew had cute quarterbacks – that took care of two of them, then I picked teams by which city I’d rather live in. If I hated both cities, I’d ask someone what color the teams’ uniforms were and choose that way. I won! And they never asked me to play again. Sore losers.
on 07 Feb 2006 at 11:25 am4Jolynn

You are awesome! That is so cool.
on 07 Feb 2006 at 5:58 pm5Peach

I’m guessing you won?! Way to go! That’ll teach ’em!
on 07 Feb 2006 at 11:05 pm6Fred

Woo-hoo! Nice job. Next year, get them really upset. Bet on the teams based on uniform colors. I’ll bet (ha!) you beat them again.
on 07 Feb 2006 at 11:40 pm7bornfool

Congrats. You are a betting genius.
on 08 Feb 2006 at 10:11 pm8lz-blogger

SURE! Now you tell me your SECRETS! ~ jb///
on 09 Feb 2006 at 9:36 am9Miss Cellania

Congratulations! I bet you showed those guys who keep stats and rely on their “foolproof system”!
on 09 Feb 2006 at 1:43 pm10FTS

Isn’t that just the way it always works? Yeesh, women… :p
on 10 Feb 2006 at 4:31 pm11poopie

I won several World Series boards like that!
on 10 Feb 2006 at 11:33 pm12wordwhiz

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
on 12 Feb 2006 at 10:40 am13TSB

My friend and I entered a pool 3 years ago…$100.00 per square and we split two. We won $9000.00 both of us had been broke as hell but scrounged up the 100 a piece just knowing we would win…LOL