Football has been berry berry good to me

Well, I had a tough day playing today, lost about 300 smackers.

BUT, thanks to the mansion freeroll, and Joey Porter returning that INT to the HOUSE near the end of the game, I won a thousand clams on the football game tonight and am booking a $700 profit for the day.

I went to a friend's house (Matt Matros, a good guy / great poker player I met at the world series) who also had bet on the game (though he had the game at pick 'em, I had the steelers giving 4.5), and we rooted together over pizza and snacks. When Reed missed the field with 4 min left and the Steelers up by 4, it looked like only one of us was winning a thousand bucks... but then, and the very next play, Dante throws it away to Porter and suddenly, the Steelers are up by 11!

Miami couldn't move the ball on the ensuing possesion (and they would have had to hit the TD and 2 point conversaion, which they would have gone for, for me not to win), and we were in the money.

Good times.

Weirdly, winning never feels as good as I think it will. I am happy and all, and I certainly can use the thou, but I'm not as happy as I thought I'd be. I thought I'd be THRILLED. Especially after they pulled it out at the end and all. But, it's no better than the Pats winning a big game. Maybe not even as good? I wonder if it would be any different winning 100,000.

That's an idea... Mansion should do a 100 K freeroll next time...