I love threads like this
I've won a couple of things on here - a signed Ali Brownlee book for a caption to a picture, and a bottle of champers for some world cup predictions way back when. I seem to remember donating the champers to Paddy Cronesberry to raffle for the MFC disabled supporters club as they were raising funds for transport. I hope they raised a great amount from it!
I won a Karaoke competition held in a nightclub when I lived in Thailand- $100 worth of lottery tickets, but no result from that.
There's been a few other bits and pieces here and there, but the icing on the cake and many years of family anecdotes and laughs was this:
My Dad was a lorry driver and every year the company held a 'Sports day' at Lealholm. It was largely a bunch of Drivers trying to break the beer consumption record for a given day....... But there were real events. One year when I was about 13, me and a son of my Dad's mate cleaned up on all the sports stuff- sprints, shot, sack race, etc. We came first or second in all the U-15 stuff.
Dad and his mate were beaming with pride, but there was a lot of jibe about sportsmanship and fairness and handing prizes back.
All the moaning stopped after the main event, the adult male 100m handicap sprint. There was a big prize attached to this. Cash + whisky + vouchers for this and that, and in true tradition, probably a meat packet.... It was really worth having. Dad was 43 and fancied his chances
and my brother in law was a national standard police athlete who also fancied his.....
It was won by the 67 year old organiser of the day. He competed in a 3 piece suit, and had a club foot with a 4" build up shoe...
As my Dad succinctly put it 'All he had to do was fall over and he'd won'