Super Bowl betting spirit lives on: Mr. Chargertastic
By Craig Grant 2-5-14

After Super Bowl hangover, doritos locos overdose, and a hardcore weekend of gambling, many students’ parents (and teachers?) are now rebounding from empty stomachs and wallets.
Well, unlike parental activities that forbid child participation (Super Bowl drinking, filing taxes, watching TV-MA soap operas past 11:30), students can now participate in the greatest American tradition since barbequing pigs or watching the big game: betting on the Mr. Chargertastic competition.
Mr. Chargertastic predictions extend past mere bets on who will take the title. There are a number of categories with histories as renowned as famous moments from the Super Bowl itself.
Remember when the Denver Broncos started off the game with a bang? Seems like almost four days ago already. The ball flew over Peyton Manning’s head on the first snap, and the Seattle Seahawks kicked off a three-hour veterinary procedure to neuter the Broncos’ players in front of all their wives and sons.
Similarly, expect some unfortunate Mr. Chargertastic competitors to drop the ball (metaphorically), neuter themselves in front of all their female classmates (literally. Yikes), and commit a series of unfortunate oopsies.
Every year it happens, and we all wish it wasn’t so. All the same, at least fans can now profit off of others’ flaws. That exemplifies the true American competitive spirit.
The Las Vegas strip, a mythical place first described in The Hangover, set the odds at the Denver Broncos winning the Super Bowl at 20-1 at the beginning of the NFL season. Here are the premature odds of various events that could occur during this year’s Chargertastic performance:
One of our masculine competitors gets stage fright trying to sing Britney Spears, but the audience decides that it’s not okay to laugh hysterically at the failed example of self-confidence. Then, someone laughs anyway: 24-1
A competitor tries dancing to Pitbull’s “Timber”, does a split, and tears his ACL. Out for the season: 14-1
A sugar momma realizes that her crush really isn’t a particularly talented dancer (after doing a split and tearing his ACL), but she bids $19.99 for a date with Mr. TornACLtastic anyway for some wobbling on the dance floor and hobbling off the dance floor: 14-1
A competitor’s mom whips out the video camera and approaches the stage, psyching out an otherwise confident competitor. The performer cries worse than the time he crashed his new tricycle, and his mom gets arrested for trafficking a video of a copyrighted show: 35-1
Peyton Manning realizes he will never again experience champion status like in 2007. He abandons a promising career as a Papa John’s pizza salesman, and he makes a guest appearance to do the rap part for a student’s otherwise dull rendition of a Bruno Mars song: 20-1