Cross-Blog Superbowl Bet
Per NTodd’s brilliant idea, I’m putting $50 on my Eagles. If they lose, I donate it to the American Friends Service Committee.
However, I take issue with this:
AFSC is a Quakerly org, so Philly will win either way!
If only it were that simple.
You see, Philadelphia hasn’t won a damn thing since 1983 – the longest drought of any four-team city – and one theory blames it on our most famous Quaker - the Curse of Billy Penn.
So it’s possible that Penn woke up this morning and thought to himself “Twenty years is long enough. I’ll give them a shot today.” Then, as he perused his favorite Quaker RSS feeds, he came upon this bet and realized that to allow a Philly victory would be to deprive a Quaker organization of much-needed funds.
We’re screwed.