The Golden Ticket

As if I needed any more reason to be excited about the Seahawks being in the Super Bowl in less than two weeks. My friend Dar called me on Monday night, and reminded me of something I had totally forgotten...

The conversation went something like this:

Dar: "Hey, congrats on the Seahawks making the Super Bowl! You still have that ticket?"
Me: "Hey, thanks! Yeah, I've got it around here somewhere." (At this point, I'm thinking he means the ticket stub from a Giants-Seahawks game he took me too last year.)
Dar: "Well, it's worth some money now."
Me: "Huh?" (Wondering how a ticket stub from a year ago could be worth money suddenly, with the thought of maniacs on eBay buying everything in sight flashing through my head.)
Dar: "You know, the Vegas ticket?"
Me: "Oh shit! That's right!"

So that's when I remembered something I probably forgot about a week after it happened. Dar was in Vegas last February on business, and while he was in one of the casinos, he picked up a bet ticket for me. You know, it was just a nice friendly gesture while he was looking at the odds for next year's Super Bowl.

So I'm suddenly wracking my brain, trying to remember where the hell I would have put it. I surely haven't seen it in a long time, maybe even since the day he gave it to me almost a full year ago. So I think, "Okay, maybe I never took it out of my wallet?" Sure enough, folded in half and tucked neatly in a corner of my wallet, there it is:

VENETIAN
$10.00 Straight Bet
Superbowl XL 2005-2006
3014 SEAHAWKS
35/1 MLB
Event Date 2/6/06
Win $350.00 to pay $360.00
Ticket Cost $10.00
09Feb2005 20:00:18

So there you have it. Odds were at a whopping 35-1 at the time. $350 if Seattle wins. Nice little extra bonus if they do win. Oh, and February 9th, the day the ticket was originally bought, is my birthday. Maybe that'll be the extra little magic touch to make this the lucky ticket and lead Seattle to victory? We can only hope. ;) Mad props and thanks to Dar for the ticket!