QUESTION # 631: HEADS OR TAILS

Dear Useless Men,

I was watching a football game with my husband on Monday night. The game went into overtime, which I didn’t think could happen in football. But to my surprise, the two teams gathered at the center and they flipped a coin. Then the Green and Yellow team took the ball and threw a touchdown pass to win the game. In my mind, winning the coin toss decided the game.

Why play the game at all? Why don’t they just flip a coin and be done with it?

Heads or tails

Dear Heads or Tails,

I SAW that game! A friend and I were in my basement, a classic man cave place for game watching, with the chips and salsa and the pops spread about. The family had long since gone to bed. When all of a sudden, BOOM, what seemed like an 80 yard pass goes straight up in the air and is pulled in and run for the TD. We jumped up out of the couch, sending chip crumbs everywhere, chanting manly things like “WHOA!!” and “YEEEaaaaaHHH!” Monosyllabic words of praise are the best form of support to your professional televised sports teams.

Brett Favre may be aging, but he can still throw a bullet from the pocket. In the old days, before football, there were still coins. And coin flipping was the sport of the day. It was a touch more civilized than gladiators, but just as gruesome. In my research, I found one computer simulation of this phenomenon as part of the promotions for No Country For Old Men. Not sure what the movie is about. I hope it is the demise of country music. I do know that it involves the Coen brothers, to whom I am thankful. If it wasn’t for their movie Fargo, I wouldn’t have even questioned why my buddy Shady Norm was asking me to rent him a wood chipper under my credit card number. But I digress.

Try playing the Coin Toss game on the site. Upload your own picture, flip a coin and cross your fingers. You can see how well I fared. MY ride was over before I could wipe the smile off my face! But you could fare much better.

OR you could simple upload pictures of people you don’t like and flip a coin on their behalf. Are you sick of the whole Britney, Paris, Lindsay debacles? Perhaps you could flip a coin with their picture? In fact, I challenge you, our Useless reader, to send me the downloadable pictures from this game. I will share the most creative ones in this post!

Then I’ll collect them, and use them for a collage on the thank you card I need to send to the Coen’s.

Sincerely,
One Useless Man


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