I called this one. I said Giants by two…then they ended up winning by three. What an exciting game. The most memorable Superbowl in a while…a close game with great defense…
For the Patriots, I can only imagine how much they hurt going into the locker room, just imagine being known as the team for all history who was *almost* undefeated and lost the *ONLY* game that folks really remember. Crushing.
Being the underdog is so much easier, and that’s why I was thinking that the Giants win…imagine the pressure of being perfect all year, and how much DRIVE the Giants had to knock off the nearly two touchdown favorite…
Three hours before the game I was frantically looking to make the first sports bet of my life, and was unsuccessful. Technical difficulties with getting money into the online sports-betting world…The Giants were -415 on the money line…missed a big payout there…
Published by Pete Ippel
Pete Ippel, the son of a dancer and a musician, was born in Oak Park, Illinois and has been surrounded by the arts since birth. He moved to Morris, Illinois in 1989 and started to participate in athletics rather than dance. After high school, Pete attended Cornell University where he received a BA in psychology and a BFA in photo / digital art making. He continued to follow his sporting dreams in the high jump, which culminated in a school record leap of 7 feet 1/2 inch in 2001.
In May 2004 he attained an MFA degree in the New Genres department of the San Francisco Art Institute. Presently Pete is a practicing artist whose work is in numerous private collections and has been exhibited in New York, California, and internationally.
Mr. Ippel resides in Working Artists Ventura, a sustainable artist community in southern California. In addition, he teaches art, is a web developer, an active blogger, and still high jumps from time to time.
As a passionate problem solver and a pragmatic optimist, Pete’s art and his life are full of exciting challenges.
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