Bee Super Bowl Challenge offers 100 reasons to care

SANDPOINT — As of the Monday night press time, a total of 29 Bee readers have stepped up and entered the free Bee Super Bowl Challenge, and chance to win $100 cash.

One of those entries came from Sandpoint West Athletic Club owner and die hard Broncos fan Don Helander, who intends to enjoy the final few days of his team holding the mantle of NFL champs.

“Being that my favorite team is the current reigning world champions until about 6:30 p.m. on Feb 5, and that Denver beat the Falcons in 1999, and that the cruelest of weather happened in Georgia last week during the NFC game but the Falcons still prevailed, I’ll go with Falcons, because teams that haven’t tasted victory deserve to win,” wrote Helander with his entry.

Another reader, Jim Holzer of Hope, expects the Falcons to win a high scoring game and his entry said to mail the winnings to Hope. Got to love the confidence.

The Bee sports editor has received several junk emails with betting odds ranging from what color tie commentator Troy Aikman will wear to whether there will be a safety recorded (6:1).

Another email was full of interesting facts, like a 30 second commercial costing North of $5 million, up 110 percent since 2007. More than 1.23 billion chicken wings will be consumed, along with 14,500 tons of chips and eight million pounds of guacamole. How they arrived at those figures is beyond comprehension, but somehow they did.

More than 50 million cases of beer will be sold on Super Bowl Sunday, with the unintended consequence of more than 1.5 million people expected to call in sick to work on Monday. Hey, there’s an idea.

Some 1,300 planes more than usual that will touch down at Houston airports during Super Bowl week, of which 85 percent will be large corporate jets.

So far, the split of Bee entries is pretty even, with most going with the oft-predicted high scoring shootout everyone is expecting.

Many in Sandpoint couldn’t care less about the game, with no regional rooting interest other than it’s the greatest spectacle on television, at least as far as ratings are concerned.

But the Super Bowl Challenge provides you with 100 reasons to care. But you can’t win if you don’t play.

To enter, simply email the score for each team, and your choice for MVP, to “eplummer@bonnercountydailybee.com.”

On Super Bowl Sunday, the Bee will publish a master list to follow along with the game.