bowling, bets and birthdays

last saturday i got together with some friends to celebrate a birthday. it was a fun night of football, bowling and weirdly enough bets. ok, so other people bowled and it isn't all that weird to take bets, especially when a sporting activity is involved. i was more about the football. and my bet was about the football. i love to bowl, but i didn't want to stop watching the lions/saints playoff game long enough to bowl. i love the lions and have only missed one game this season. first time to the playoff since forever was not going to be game number 2.

the game had it's good moments and bad moments. mainly 1 bad moment. the end score. unfortunately, the lions were unable to pull out a victory over the saints. equally as unfortunate, i knew deep down i wasn't going to go in my favor. didn't stop me from making the bet.

a friend of mine lives in baton rouge. he's a giant saints fan. i believe he told me he's THE saints fan. after some taunting texts exchanged through the first half, i suggested a friendly bet. he suggested the terms. i agreed and the game went on. it became clear about midway through the 4th quarter that the lions were done and i was going to lose.

so now i'm going to baton rouge. that is my punishment (?) for the lions losing. i have to go to baton rouge and i have to bring a friend. those were the terms. lions lose, i bring a friend to baton rouge. lions win, he brings a friend to grand rapids. somehow seems like no matter what the outcome of the game had been, i would have won. sure my football season is over, but now i get to spend 4-5 days in baton rouge with a friend seeing someone i haven't talked to in person in about 10 years. i think i win. plus we're going in april for spring break so that'll be fun and with the way this winter has been, we'll probably have 12 feet of snow in michigan that week so being some place warm is an added bonus.

sometimes i making bets is worth it....even if the airfare to louisiana is going to break me.