07 October 2008

Going to Florida

So, less than 24 hours after I was involved in a car accident which just took my week off to a soaring (sarcasm) start, I won a trip to Florida - airfare, two nights in the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay in a room overlooking the bay, and tickets to Sunday's Carolina Panthers-Tampa Bay Buccaneers football game from AM 620 KTAR radio. For those of you (Max) who want more details, I was sitting at home getting ready for work when the phone rang. It was my dad, telling me I had about 2 minutes to call the radio station to claim a prize. I didn't know what prize, or even when I had signed up for a contest, but I called in anyway, verified who I was, and was put on the air with Gambo and Ash from the morning sports radio talk show. They told me I was the winner of the 2-Minute Drill contest, where they would call a name from those people who had signed up as AM 620 All-Stars, and if and when that person called within a few minutes of that announcement, they'd win a trip to any NFL stadium of their choice in the country playing this Sunday to go fly out and see the game! However, if the person couldn't make up their mind within 2 minutes (hence the Drill part), then the radio hosts would pick the game (probably a pretty crappy matchup in some cold, drizzly city) that the person would win. Fortunately, I was of enough sound mind to pick probably the best game going on this Sunday between the Panthers and Buccaneers in Tampa, Florida! So this weekend (fly out Saturday morning, fly back Monday afternoon) I will be lounging by the beach, catching the game (end zone near the Buccaneers' famed pirate ship, 8th row), and seeing Florida since I've never been there - all paid for except the rental car! And because there were 2 tickets, I'm taking my dad, since he was kind enough to let me know I needed to call the station, otherwise I'd have never known about it! I'll be certain to post pics when I get back for all my blog fans!

5 comments:

  1. Congrats Andrew! That sounds like quite the trip, can't wait to hear about it!

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  2. Yay for free trips!!! That sounds like soooo much fun!

    Let me know how Florida is - I'm headed down there to help out on Feeney's campaign sometime next week.

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  3. How dare you use my name and/or likeness without expressed written consent.

    "Identity theft is a crime, Jim"

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  4. Hey! I thought I was your new best friend! Just kidding. I can't think of a more deserving person. Have fun~Susan Lett

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  5. Thanks, all! I will make sure to take plenty of pictures! Plus, I'm going to try to find tickets to the Red Sox-Rays ALCS game 2 on Saturday, so I may have tales from that, too!

    ~AJM

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