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Old 02-05-2007, 09:49 PM   #270
Barkeep49
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Not too far away


It was a close competition. A few of the items left the teams puzzled. I am not surprised that the gyrating football player left teams stumped. I ran into it completely by accident when I was going through corbis's database.


The clue for the "Federal" Super Bowl was designed to be hard. There has been only one game played north of the Mason-Dixon line (or in Civil War parlance, in Federal Territory). I wanted to include this bit of trivia but didn't want it too be too easy to find (the game being at Detroit) and perhaps went too far in the other direction.

Finally, there were the Huge felines. I did get a couple of cats in helmets, and one picture, from Howard I believe, of a huge stone head in a helmet but it was not a feline. I expected this too to be a tougher one, with Pass having an unfair advantage. Outside Chicago's Art Institute there are a couple of famous lions who they decked out in Bears helmets. There was some news about it locally because the first set of helmets didn't fit. Like I said, designed to be hard.


Then there were the ones where my wording was poor. I meant for the football players without a helmet to be one of a player whose helmet came off during the play, but clearly the wording did not say that and so I accepted a couple pictures of Peyton Manning standing on the sideline.

The Commissioner pictures was the other one where my wording was less than ideal. It was always designed to be 5 separate photos. Of course, as Kwhit and Blade asked, it would have been possible to combine items, as they'd still have been sending only 5 pictures, though no team did this. Anyway, I was a stickler about the Commissioners.

I will give the teams credit. Many of the items that I had trouble finding seemed to give others no problem at all. Anyhow our final chart looked like this (and I apologize for the bad formatting but I just played with this for more than 20 minutes to little avail):
Quote:
Item
OZ
Howard
Lupus
Helsing
2006 Bears Team Photo
2
0
2
0
2006 Colts Team Photo
1
1
1
1
2007 Lombardi Trophy
1
1
1
1
A picture from the Super Bowl of the two cities who have played each other in the championship of the NFL, MLB, NHL, and NBA
1.33
1.33
0
1.33
A player whose helmet is off

1.33
1.33
1.33
A Super Bowl winning play
1
1
1
1
Bear (the animal)
0
1.33
1.33
1.33
Both kinds of football together
1
1
1
1
Coin used in Super Bowl XLI
2
0
0
2
Colt (the animal)
0
1.33
1.33
1.33
Colts moving out of Baltimore
0
1.33
1.33
1.33
Da Coach yelling
1
1
1
1
Football playing bottles
1
1
1
1
Gyrating football player Hula hoping football player
0
0
0
0
Huge Helmeted feline
WRONG
Wrong
0
Wrong
Madden Bowl 07
0
0
0
0
Most popular take-out/delivery food on Super Bowl Sunday
1.33
0
1.33
1.33
Peyton Manning in a commercial
1.33
1.33
1.33
0
Picture from the “Federal” Super Bowl
0
0
0
0
Elmer Layden
1.33
1.33
0
1.33
Bert Bell
1.33
1.33
0
1.33
Pete Rozelle
1
1
1
1
Paul Tagliabue
2
0
2
0
Roger Goodell
2
0
2
0
Pre-merger championship team photo
0
1.33
1.33
1.33
Prince’s other "name"
1
1
1
1
Pro Player Stadium
1.33
1.33

1.33
Super BowlON a TV
0
1.33
1.33
1.33
Super Bowl XL Ring
1.33
0
1.33
1.33
Super Bowl XLI Ticket
1
1
1
1
The 85 Super Bowl Shuffle
1
1
1
1
The Catch
1.33
1.33
0
1.33
The Tuck
1
1
1
1
The Wardrobe malfunction (keep it clean)
1
1
1
1

Which give us a final score of:
Oz: 30.64
Howard: 27.96
Lupus 29.97
Helsing 31.29

So Helsing wins our first challenge. One of their members will be the seer and they are say from tribal council and the next opportunity for the wolves to attack. Lupus? Howard? It's tribal council for you tomorrow. Details will be posted in your tribal thread (though I'll let everyone know that after an immunity challenge, the next reward challenge will go on simultainously with tribal council. This might change slightly when we have individual challenges).

As a bit of an FYI: I'm hoping to start tomorrow's reward challenge around 8, and there will be a 7 o'clock deadline if I can get the help I need lined up.

Oh and also before everyone leaves, I need at least one person from each tribe to send me a PM to be a "volunteer". You may not post anywhere that you have volunteered. If a tribe fails to have anyone volunteer there will be consequences. Of course too many people volunteering for this unknown thing could be bad too. So just how adventurous do you feel?
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