Special Super Bowl Caption Contest!

UPDATE: This contest is complete. We have another contest starting up very soon so come on back!

The winners of this round are Chip and GMoney, with Chip getting first choice. Chip, send your mailing info and your choice to excusemedougefresh[at]gmail[dot]com.

NOTE — IF ANY PRIZE GOES UNCLAIMED FOR TWO WEEKS, WE WILL HOLD ANOTHER CONTEST TO DETERMINE A NEW WINNER.

Time for another Caption Contest from on 205th magazine for a couple of great prizes! Top two captions get one of the following prizes with first place getting first choice…

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Passing Game: Benny Friedman and the Transformation of Football
(List price: $26.95)

First-time author Murray Greenberg chronicles the overlooked football career of one of the sport’s genuine innovators. Just as Paul Arizin’s perfection of the jump shot changed the game of basketball, Benny Friedman’s invention of the forward pass changed football. During the sport’s first Golden Age, when names like Grange, Nevers and Nagurski glittered, and the melon-sized ball made it difficult and the rules made it risky, the forward pass played a distinctly minor role in any team’s offense. Friedman repeated his college success in the nascent professional game, leading the league in 1928 in both passing and rushing touchdowns, a feat never accomplished before or since. Giants’ owner Tim Mara purchased the entire Detroit Wolverines team just to get Friedman to New York, where his ethnicity and exciting brand of play had special box-office appeal.

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How Football Explains America
(List price: $24.95)

How Football Explains America shows how at the heart of this country’s real pastime is an insatiable need for storytelling and mythmaking, how Johnny Unitas is like John Wayne and Joe Montana is like Luke Skywalker, how the game grew up when pioneers and cowboys set out to write America’s story across the West, and how football was a game that perfectly explained that march across the continent.

“Football explains America,” says NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, “because the game is about teamwork and camaraderie, competition and passion, strategy, and energy, strength and emotion. You can look at football and see the heart of America.”

How Football Explains America takes you through a fascinating historical and cultural journey, using the intrigue, skullduggery, and drama of the 2007 NFL season–the quest for perfection and triumph of an underdog against all odds–to tell the story of a game and a nation that have been sewn together and explain how we live, work, and play.

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Here’s your pic…

H/T: DeadDog

Contest ends Sunday, February 1, 2009.

[Total value of prizes given away by on 205th: $890.04]

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