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Soccer is the most boring thing to watch on television.
- America
The cynics are having a field day with the World Cup final, calling Spain’s last-minute-of-overtime 1-0 victory a snoozefest.
I’m not here to argue with them, but it is important to understand why. [Read more...]
I know the Biggest Loser in game show history. He’s my friend, Pete.
Mind you, I am talking single-day loser here. It took Ken Jennings 76 appearances to top the $3-million mark, so his Jeopardy victims don’t count.
Pete was on the Wheel of Fortune episode where a woman won the first million-dollar jackpot. Pete finished third, which by all accounts makes him the Biggest Loser in game show history.
Odds are, you won’t be able to find anything about Pete online, because losers are seldom remembered. And the ones that do get remembered had to do a whole lot of winning to get there. The Buffalo Bills lost four straight Super Bowls. Dewey didn’t defeat Truman, but he had to beat out other losers (that you can’t name without Google) just to be nominated. Unless you’re really engaged, you don’t remember the losers.
But they were in the game. Pete – despite hitting Bankrupt on two of the four chances he had to spin the wheel – walked away with more money that day than I did for not playing. He’s also got a great consolation prize, the awesome-sounding title of “Biggest Loser in Game Show History.”
All I am is a phone-a-friend, and that didn’t get me squat.
Even the losers have better stories than those who never played.
