{"id":892,"date":"2006-03-29T09:25:15","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T17:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/03\/george_fucking_mason.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T11:53:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T16:53:09","slug":"george_fucking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/george_fucking.html","title":{"rendered":"George Fucking Mason!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Advance checks in on the Island bar with the $1.5 million NCAA pool<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The two signs posted on the mirrors behind the bar at Jody’s Club Forest indicate what only those in the know need to know — 537 lines are left in the West Brighton tavern’s March Madness Pool.<\/p>\n

The nondescript black writing on plain white papers reveals:<\/p>\n

123 people picked the fourth-seeded LSU Tigers to win it all.<\/p>\n

240 people think the second-seeded UCLA Bruins are going to hoist the trophy.<\/p>\n

173 people believe the third-seeded Florida Gators will cut down the nets.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

With more than 150,000 entries submitted in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament betting bonanza, the pot is reportedly worth upward of $1.5 million.<\/p>\n

It costs $10 to enter a line and each submission must include a prediction of the Final Four teams, plus the NCAA champion and the score of the title game, which will be played Monday night in the RCA Dome in Indianapolis.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And you may be wondering if anyone penciled in the surprising 11th-seeded George Mason team — apparently, yes:<\/p>\n

Only one person took a giant leap of faith and selected the longest of long shots, George Mason’s Patriots, the giant-killers who entered the tourney seeded 11th in their 16-team region.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Since no one this side of Nostradamus could have predicted this year’s Final Four, insiders say the rules of the pool have been slightly altered.<\/p>\n

Those remaining have three of the Final Four correct — the fourth pick having been knocked out during this past weekend’s Elite 8 games — and the winning pick still alive.<\/p>\n

Rumors are circulating that one fellow was one team shy of walking away with the all the cash. He supposedly had the top-seeded Villanova Wildcats instead of their opponent, and eventual vanquisher, Florida.<\/p>\n

But that same man is still in the pool because he was the only one to take a flier on George Mason doing the Cinderella dance.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Backstory: Shh . . . Don’t Tell The IRS!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Advance checks in on the Island bar with the $1.5 million NCAA pool: The two signs posted on the mirrors behind the bar at Jody’s Club Forest indicate what only those in the know need to know — 537 lines are left in the West Brighton tavern’s March Madness Pool. The nondescript black writing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}