Kids in Jerseys As Pawns: Catholic School Kids Wager on Super Bowl

Kids in school are having a lot of fun these days. From the Doodle 4 Google contest to taking part in friendly political wagers on the Super Bowl. That's right, there's a group of Catholic School kids in Glendale setting up a wager with kids in Pittsburgh.

Students from Catholic schools Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Glendale and John F. Kennedy School in Washington, Pa., near Pittsburgh, have agreed that should their team lose, the students have to wear the winning team's colors for a day.

Stacey McCracken, parent of four students attending the Pennsylvania school, got the idea after the Cardinals won the NFC Championship. She said she thought it would be fun to have an Arizona Scho0l enter a bet. After searching on Google for a matching school, she found Our Lady of Perpetual Help and called to set up the wager.

McCracken said that should the Steelers lose to the Cardinals, her school's faculty will wear red Arizona T-shirts and prepare a Cardinals-themed lunch. She added that there may be other "unfortunate events" if Arizona wins.

Buying an entire school new shirts during these trying economic times? I guess those parents who are sending their kids to catholic schools really do have too much money on their hands.

Bottomline: Using kids as pawns to get some press is kinda lame. The lunch is "interesting", but since this doesn't involve politicans, we tend to rate this wager pretty low. 9 Daleys.

Jersey Boys: 2 Locals Wager Embarrassment

Two local Mayors around Philadelphia came up with an "embarrassment" wager a few weeks back. Apparently one of the Mayors is a New Jersey transplant and bleeds NY Giants Red and Blue. In the Jan. 11 divisional play-off game, the Eagles beat the Giants. They mayors settled up this week.

When Howell Mayor Robert Walsh ran Tuesday's Township Council meeting while wearing a Philadelphia Eagles football jersey, he finished paying off a bet to Upper Freehold Mayor Steve Alexander.

The bet was on the Jan. 11 Eagles-Giants divisional play-off game.

Alexander, a Philadelphia native, is a die-hard Eagles fan; Walsh grew up in Jersey City as a die-hard Giants fan. The "Iggles" beat "Big Blue," 23 to 11, so Walsh had to pay off the bet.

First, Walsh brought coffee and pastries to the Jan. 15 Upper Freehold Township Committee meeting. The two mayors, who had never met before, wore Eagles jerseys — Alexander as a fan, Walsh as part of paying off the bet.

Walsh's bringing the coffee and pastries, along with wearing the Eagles jersey, were part of the payoff.

"I'm feeling a little shameful," said Walsh, 50, as he was heading out the Upper Freehold meeting. "I just saw myself in the mirror with an Eagles jersey on. But I'll suck it up."

The jersey wearing portion of the bet has become commonplace for local city council members or mayors. Because the Mayors both hail from the same region, while betting on different teams, it was difficult to pick "regional" foods.

Bottomline: This run of the mill bet includes folks who don't even live where the teams are based. Because of those factors, we put this wager down at the bottom of the scale. 9 Daleys.