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• Super Bowl Pool for Charity

  Charlie set up a Super Bowl Pool with the winnings to be donated to charity . The boxes are $10 each and the payout is fairly typical - with the prize going to a charity of your choice. If I win, the prize will be going to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the same organization that my sister ran a marathon for back in early 2005. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education, and patient services. The Society's mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. Update : The pool has now been closed with 50 boxes sold. We didn't reach the goal of filling all 100 boxes, but the pool will raise $500 for charity. Enjoy the game! Posted Feb 02 2007, 06:53 AM by Tim with | with no comments Filed under: Sports, Personal, Blogging

• Here we go Steelers! Get one for the thumb!

  [ This message was pre-recorded ] I haven't written anything yet about the Steelers magical run this year to avoid any jinx... but let me say this much: the Steelers deserve to win more than the Seahawks. Not necessarily because the players are better, but because the fans are. Pittsburgh is a city that takes it football very, very seriously . It is a city that lives and dies with its football team, sometimes quite literally . The fans write songs ( notice that was plural ). The Seahawk fans just infringe trademarks ... This post really sums it how these two cities approach football. "Just how much of a nut-out should one person have over a football game? It's an exciting game, but winning the Super Bowl probably won't change the course of history." - Seattle Post-Intelligencer Website , Friday February 3, 2006 Don't tell that to a Pittsburgh fan. "We've waited a decade...to make history..." -- WTAE 4 Commercial Seriously, though, what a storybook ending it would be for one of the best... Posted Feb 03 2006, 01:28 PM by Tim with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Rants, Sports, Personal