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I lost a $20 bet to my nine-year-old.

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Background: I'm not one to use foul language in normal conversation. But, I will let some colorful language fly in celebration or frustration during a Bama game.

So, on Saturday my daughter proposed that I forfeit $20 to her if cursed during the game. What would I get if I behaved? She would clean the entire house. Yeah, she was pretty confident.

Well, I feel the Bama special teams owes me some compensation. As I uttered some banned language after the third quarter fumble, my daughter gleefully exclaimed, "That's twenty dollars!" After realizing that I just lot the bet, I handed over the bills and asked, "So, you knew you were going to win, huh?" She replied, "Yep. You're too emotionally invested."

My daughter is the next Arnold Rothstein: only bets on a sure thing. ;)
 
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I would never enter into that bet, unless I was watching Bama games on DVD and I already knew the score before watching.
Bama special teams, over the last seven years, have probably cut my life expectancy by a decade.
 
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It was definitely a sucker bet. What was funny is that Lily will usually watch some of the game with me. She watch some, wander off, come back for a bit, and so on. Saturday she sat in the chair that triangulates my spot on the couch and the tv. She wasn't watching the game; she was watching me. Watching and waiting. Ready to pounce on that $20. ;)

I told her later that the jokes on her, as I will veto any spending proposal she has for that money.
 
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I stay at home by myself to watch Bama. My friends already think I'm crazy. They say it's only a game. my response Not at ALABAMA!
 
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My wife had a similar experience with our 5 y.o. grandson. She said a wirty dord that caught his attention, he politely told her that she was too old to be saying words like that, that only daddys could say those words. His dad is a LSWhos fan by the way. We laughed about that all the way home Sunday night.
 
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My FiL never cussed at home, though he cussed like a sailor at work. It amazed me that he could watch an Alabama game and be clearly upset, yet never let it slip. When I asked him about it he told me that he did it for his daughters. I asked him if he would have made the same decision if he only had sons and he said, "Hell, no! Boys need to learn to cuss." :biggrin:

I miss him.
 
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Hooks4bama said:
I have a 4 year old and learning to watch my language while watching Bama football is difficult.
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When watching a game with others I usually manage to stay undercover as a calm, cool, and collected fan with a heathy emotional distance from the game. Cracks start to form when it becomes apparent that I know too many of the players names. Then inevitably a big play happens and I blow my carefully constructed facade but jumping off the couch with a cry of joy or despair and either knock over the chips or fall unceremoniously onto the benches in front of me. Gets me every time. ;)


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I would not win that bet after a few mins. I am a very quiet/calm person in regular life. Now, when an Alabama football game is on...all bets are off.
 
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TideMom2Boys said:
I would not win that bet after a few mins. I am a very quiet/calm person in regular life. Now, when an Alabama football game is on...all bets are off.
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I'm the same way, (quiet most of the time but channel my inner Bama-Hulk when a game is on) When the boys where little, the first time they watched a bama game with me they looked like they where in shock. They asked my wife "what's wrong with daddy?". She just calmly said "daddy's ok, he's just watching a Bama game"
 
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tidegrandpa said:
My LSU niece who lived here in Corpus Christi in 2012, showed up the Saturday night of the LSU game, expecting to watch the game with me.

I never let her in the door, no negative mojo allowed.

I'm still answering to family over that move,
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Tough love. You did the right thing. You should follow that by mailing her transfer papers to T-town.
 
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TideMom2Boys said:
I would not win that bet after a few mins. I am a very quiet/calm person in regular life. Now, when an Alabama football game is on...all bets are off.
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Same here. Anytime I'm watching a game with someone new, I warn them that I scream and jump around. Years ago, my father-in-law and a family friend came to our house from deer camp to watch a game. whenever I see Craig, he will ask if I've settled down any.
 
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