Superbowl XLII
Jan 21st, 2008 by craig
Are you ready for some Football!
It’s time to get your name on our annual Superbowl Candy Pool – just send me a note or email telling 
me what your favorite candy bar is and you’ll be entered. If you’d like, you can send me a couple of choices; in the event you are a lucky winner of multiple candy bars, you can have a variety. I’ll accept emails or comments on one of the blogs that I’ve posted this on (Live from Wherever or the Cottle Family Blog
)– as long as I have your name and your choice of candy bar(s).
We hope there will be lots of winners; last year we had eleven different people winning a total of eighteen candy bars. Like last year we’re including the extra points as winning scores. Anyone can play, young and old. So get your choices in early. As soon as we have the grid complete, we’ll send everyone a copy so you’ll have it for the game.
The fine print: No submission of candy bars is required! All winning candy bars come from Kristin and me as a reward for participating in our pool. Deadline for submission is noon on Friday, February 1st.
Each participant will be assigned at least one square representing possible scores. Based on participation we will use the traditional 10 by 10 hundred square grid or a smaller 5 by 5 grid. If the later is the case, two numbers will be assigned to each column and two numbers assigned to each row. Scores for the squares and square assignments will be made randomly. Every score change is worth a candy bar, regardless of how many times the score has changed during the quarter, and the extra point after a touch down does count as a score change. The score at the end of each quarter is worth an extra candy bar. The score at the end of the game is also worth an extra candy bars. So those who have the score at the end of each quarter will win at least 2 candy bars (maybe more, depending on the quarter and what else has happened during that quarter).
For example, if New York scores first, say a field goal, the score would be 3-0 New York. The person that has the square representing 3 for New York and zero for New England wins a candy bar. Then suppose New England scores a touchdown, making the score 6-3 New England: the person that has 3 for New York and 6 for new England wins a candy bar. Then New England kicks the extra point, so then the person that has the 7-3 New England score wins a candy bar. If the first quarter then ends, that person (who has the 7-3 New England score) wins another candy bar.
lol first comment.
*Ahem* I would like… uh… those cookie-dough bites. Yes.
Or small blizzards, but that’s vastly overbudget, methinks.
Looks like most people are emailing their choices. I’m going with Dove Milk Chocolate and Kit Kats.
Well, silly me… I didn’t realize this was a blog entry when it first arrived in my inbox (I subscribe the RSS feed), since in previous years it was just sent out email. Oops!
Thanks, Craig & Kris, for doing this each year – it makes for a fun connunity (and a reason to watch the game 🙂 )
I’m fond of Hershey’s with Almonds, Ferrar Rocher, Toblerone, those little brown (hazelnut) Lindor balls…. (are you sensing that I like nuts?) I also can enjoy an occasional Snickers or Reese’s – but not the new Whipped kind… they’re yucky. So, if I win, take your pick!
It was sent in an email, too. 🙂 So we’ve got you down for nuts, with a little bit of chocolate!
Yay!! Candy for the Superbowl! You’ll find that you can get me to do just about anything for chocolate/candy.