Rave : Winning a Silent Auction Item

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Re: Rave : Winning a Silent Auction Item

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Popeye_Card wrote:
Hungary Jack wrote:Mrs. Jack and I attended a fund raiser for Urban Gateways in Chicago several years ago. We had just gotten hitched and bought a house in Chicago. We were up to our ears in debt.

We did the silent auction thing. I won an official NFL football autographed by the 1998 Bears, a terrible team that went 4-12, along with a dinner for two at Iron Mike's in Chicago, for $50.

The retired couple next to us at dinner, who were very well off, won the $5,000 lottery prize for $100.

Man, that hurt.
Look on the bright side. You have the autographed football from the team that was bad enough to get a high enough draft pick to take the immortal Cade McNown. Isn't that exciting?
Was it McNown, or Enis? Or maybe Rashaan Salaam? Or Cedric Benson? Marc Colombo?

I just can't keep all those first round busts straight anymore.

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