Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Bracket Picks Based on Favorite Coasters

It's March, time for millions of people, whether avid basketball fans or not, to enter in workplace pools, picking the winners of the NCAA Division I championship. Iowa coaster enthusiast Eric Locksley has what is undoubtedly a unique approach in how he selected teams for entering the pool at the local Old Country Buffet, where he has worked for the past five years. ("I love the discount!")

Locksley, who says the only sport he watches is curling, picks teams based entirely on the quality of the amusement park rides in their home states. A huge fan of Six Flags New England and Mount Olympus, he picked Boston College and Wisconsin to reach the championship game. Unfortunately, both have already been defeated.

"Damn!" he said, when reached for an interview. "I'd picked Hades to totally kick Superman's ass!"

Locksley's coworkers say they are perfectly happy to take his entry fee but that they wish he would stop talking about rumors about Arnold's Park getting a massive new hypercoaster.

--GP
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9 comments:

  1. Anonymous3:47 PM

    I'm here to declare your $200 article a hoax. Reserved seating for shows my eye. Six Flags doesn't have any shows.

    Chronic Coaster

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  2. Anonymous9:45 PM

    Uh, ARN&R makes no reference to shows on this page. That's an actual Yahoo Finance article they're linking to, and is thus not their article.

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  3. WildOnesCoasterClub3:35 PM

    I think we will all agree that no comment is needed about this article. It totally blows! Also, I think Chronic Coaster made have been smoking too much chronic, hence the reason for referring to reserved seating and stuff when the article was about college basketball.

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  4. Anonymous1:20 AM

    I'm talking about the side-bar you wild, angry, petulant person.

    Chronic

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  5. Anonymous8:14 PM

    Well, find somewhere else to post it, you chronic blunt-smoking imbecile.

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  6. WildOnesCoasterClub8:55 PM

    This comment section is intended for comments about the article above. If you wish to post something about the sidebar, I recommend you do it on the Forum instead. To be honest, they could really use something posted there. Lay off the weed Chronic.

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  7. Anonymous2:03 AM

    Who made you the monitor of this site?

    Chronic

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  8. Anonymous9:41 AM

    Your mom.

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  9. Anonymous10:57 PM

    If the title were decided by best coaster (thankfully it isn't), then I think SFA's Supes wins out over X, with Fire Dragon/Everest coming up short. Maverick would obviously have to "wait 'til next year"....

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