790 the Zone Scavenger Hunt

I participated in a scavenger hunt put on by 790 the Zone to win 10 tickets to the GT-UGA game. It didn’t play out how I wanted. I’m still a little bit bitter about what happened.

The UGAg father/son team won the hunt. I talked to them several times throughout the event and other than being mutt fans they were very friendly and deserving of the tickets (the son served in Iraq for us).

But back to why I’m still a little upset about it. At first, Steak Shapiro told me that if we would have gotten a picture with Coach Richt we would have won, which is kinda true. We tried, but his assistants didn’t really want us to and kept giving us the runaround. We had to get back to Tech for pregame stuff so we never got time to go for a third try for him. Funny part of that exchange was that I have RWFGT as my ringtone and it went off when I was talking to Richt’s assistant, so that may have had something to do with it. But the father/son team just happened to run into him in the parking lot later in the day even though he normally parks in a private lot that is closed to the public. Lucky break for them part 1.

Lucky break part 2 is what ended up killing me. We came back a little early from Athens for two reasons. One was to get some of the pregame stuff. The other was that one of the tasks was to get a free throw shot in AMC with a jersey on. The shot was 10 points and the jersey was a bonus 15. I knew some of the basketball managers from my days as a trainer with the basketball team so we got back before AMC automatically locks up and waited for practice to be over so I could get a manager to help me out and get that one done. We did and with only missing 2-3 tasks at UGA and getting everything done at Tech we thought we had it for sure.

Keep in mind that we only lost by 10 points. Somehow, the father/son team found an unlocked door to AMC at 6:30 in the morning. That’s not supposed to happen. Secondly, one of the basketball managers happened to leave a jersey laying on a chair on the AMC floor. If either someone at facilities locks up, like they are supposed to, or the manager puts up the jersey, like they are supposed to, then we win.

There was one task we could have done back in Athens after the game, but it was finding some “Iron Horse” out in the middle of a field about 30 miles outside of Athens. We were told by the other teams that we probably would have never found it in the dark. Plus, we were exhausted and driving to and from Athens at that time could have been pretty dangerous. (My dad died falling asleep at the wheel so I wasn’t risking it.)

So basically we got outlucked when they got two extremely lucky breaks.

I’m a little upset about it and mad I won’t be there when we break the losing streak and crush the mutts season, but I always say that God has me somewhere for a reason. Plus, I get to flip back and forth between our game and the UVA-VT game to see if we are headed to Tampa.

Go Jackets! THWG!