Admittedly, it may be the o-so-thrilling bet between the Indianapolis and New Orleans art museums over paintings by a pair of landscape artists (only one of whom I had even heard of, but then again, I'm a philistine), but hey, at least they're giving it some press coverage.
BBC: Paintings hang on Super Bowl wager
Honestly, I think my favorite part of the whole story is the notion of a fevered football betting war (conducted via Twitter) between a pair of museum curators. Especially the bit where one of them curtly dismisses the other one's proposed stake of a jewel-encrusted cup as a "gaudy chalice". Because we all know that there would never be anything gaudy about the Super Bowl. Of course, if he did accept the cup and then won, he would just be opening the door to all kinds of "He chose...poorly" jokes, so maybe it's for the best. The ridiculous, stereotype-confirming twitter slapfest aside, I was also tickled by the final line of the article, "The annual Super Bowl is the biggest event in the US sporting calendar," mostly because I suspect that if the same article had appeared in a popular US periodical it would have been replaced by something like "Painting is a hobby involving placing colored paint onto sheets of cloth to form pictures, largely favored by Europeans and homosexuals."
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