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During my freshman year at BYU, Scotty Hinckley and I lived in the Raintree together (this was before he snubbed us for a handful of grass burners to live closer to UVSC, but we can leave that for another day). At any rate, I believe Utah's U92 started around when we moved to Provo. At the time, Scott was African American at heart, so we spent a great deal of time listening to U92 on a stereo system that we had rigged to work on all the speakers throughout the apartment (including a 12" woofer - which led to some funny interactions with some dude that lived under us).

The reason for all of this background is to state that we used to win our fair share of U92 radio contests in our day. We would borrow neighbor's cordless phones and each have two lines dialing. We won so many times, that the radio djs began to recognize our phone number and voice and would stop allowing us to win. So many, that we had to start giving them the names of our friends to side step the clause that stated that you couldn't win twice in 30 days. We would work every angle.

Those days have returned, if only for a short time. As explained in a previous post, Scotty and I won season tickets to the Jazz off 1320 KFAN. This past Wednesday, KFAN held a contest among the 20 season ticket winners to upgrade one person's season tickets to lower bowl season tickets. The contest was a game of HORSE (which actually was shortened to UJ for all but the final round). Like always, Scotty went in with a strategy. He informed me of his strategy via chat a few days before the contest:

Scott: "so here's my technique
it's boring but I like my chances
whenever it's my choice on a shot, I just do free throws
I'll practice free throws tuesday night
and then just rule them on the FT"

Long story short, Scotty won the HORSE contest and we are now sitting on lower bowl season jazz tickets ($8,000+ worth of them). He told me that his technique was not very popular...especially when it came down to he and a 5-month pregnant girl in the final round. Fortunately this wasn't a popularity contest. Scotty and I divvied up the tickets the following day and I'm scheduled to go to 25 games - 10 with Scott and 15 with Jess. I was thrilled to win the tickets, and happy to be reminded of some good times at the Raintree.