How free beer relates to Cedar Point

With apologies to Edgar Allen Poe...

TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad? Because I thought that the Steelers would sweep the Browns?

At long last, the story can be told.

It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Would it be possible to find a Browns fan at CEDAR POINT who would be willing to buy me beer at the Red Garter Saloon?

Now this is the Po!nt. You fancy me mad. Madmen men know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded -- with what caution -- with what foresight, with what dissimulation, I went to work! I was never kinder to the "Old Timer" than during the whole hour before the wager was placed.

CEDAR POINT, Father's Day weekend. The second annual FDRGM*. As usual, the beer was flowing, the jokes were bantered back and forth, and the realization was that I, as a Steelers fan, was alone in the midst of Brownies. Whatever to do?

A wager was made at CEDAR POINT at the Red Garter. Should the Browns sweep the Steelers in the 2002 football season, I would purchase many adult beverages for our friend Old Timer Tim. The reverse would be true with the opposite outcome.

The meeting at Heinz Field went my way. Today, I can only envision the monolog at the OTT household: The Steelers would rebound from a 14-3 deficit and then...

"They suspected! --they knew! --they were making a mockery of my horror!-this I thought, and this I think. But anything was better than this agony! Anything was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt that I must scream or die! and now --again! --hark! louder! louder! louder! louder!"

"Villains!" OTT shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! --tear up the planks! here, here! --It is the beating of my beloved Browns!"

Next year at CEDAR POINT will be the third annual FDRGM at the Red Garter. Several adult beverages will again be purchased. My wallet shall stay in my pocket.

And THAT, my friends, is how free beer relates to Cedar Point.

and I must confess, that I will "gladly" purchase those said beverages...

Hey, does this qualify as the FIRST scheduled meeting for the 2003 season?

I only hope PETE DOES NOT practice his singing before next year...We like it just the way he is.

I just want my $20 from Pete.

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP
"There's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, when it's all in your mind. You gotta let go." - Ghetto, Supreme Beings of Leisure

Tim, I can guarantee that my performance will be every bit as "excellent" as it was in 2002. If it's not, then I owe Jeff $40....

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Florida may have Disneyworld and Key West,
but Ohio has Cedar Point and Put-In-Bay.
It's great to live in Ohio!

Somehow I think Pete's extra 20 bucks is safe...

... because I'm hard-pressed to think that it could possibly be worse!