Sports: Mallards fans eat beetles for free Duck Blind tickets (with photos)

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  I'd do it for $10 every minute of every day and retire at 35... a millionaire.

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How Bad Do You Want It?
Published 7/21/2008 by Mustafa Redonkulous (noreply@blogger.com) at Deuce of Davenport | Sports News, Commentary, Humor, Videos
... The Madison Mallards held Beetle Eating Night on Thursday. Fans were received free access to the all you can eat and drink area of the stadium if they ate a dead beetle. The offer was only open to the first 250 fans who took up the challenge. ...

Blog Jam: Cooley’s Wife Shows Off Lovely T-Shirt
Published 7/21/2008 by jason at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... to Cantu’s tuggee, Scott Olson . • How far will you go for free beer? The MADISON (WI) CAPITAL TIMES unearths about 250 baseball fans willing to eat beetles for bonus brews . • Just when you thought the world was safe from Kato Kaelin , RANDBALL slices up news that O.J.’s former houseguest is ...

The Roundup: Sean Avery, Wrestling Belts, Musial
Published 7/21/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... as the traffic for Gawker’s blogs is up, there’s hope for the rest of us … Scarlett is supposed to be at the DNC next month … after the jump, Romo’s girl brings the daisy dukes … Norman Chad on blogs: “Blogging, essentially, is talk radio on steroids.” Even if you don’t like the topic, read for the two cool surprises. (Post-Intelligencer) About 250 idiots in Wisconsin ate a beetle for $30. (Capital Times via Fark) An anonymous friend of A-Rod: His wife ...

Mini Pony of the Day 6-21-08
Published 7/21/2008 by tecmo (noreply@blogger.com) at Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies
... I think we got a raw deal on that one. This little dude is doing what I'm wishing I was doing right now. Lucky mini horse. Dream about the following links: Bob Smizik is old and needs to go away. [ The Pensblog ] Tick, tick-tick-tick-tick-tick. [ One For The Other Thumb ] Dan Snyder with his yearly faded veteran pickup. [ Kissing Suzy Kolber ] So let me get this straight. Skymall > Sports Illustrated? [ Gheorghe: The Blog ] Would you eat a beetle for $30? [ Capital Times ] Heath Ledger was in the right frame of mind before he passed. [ Carbolic ...

You all look like you could use some POOP!!!
Published 7/21/2008 by flyingpig at Real Sports Bloggers
... eating a great big juicy beetle? No, I’m not talking about Paul or Ringo. I bet the marketing department of the Madison Mallards didn’t think they’d get as many as 250 fans to crunch down on the tasty bug but they did. At about $30 per seat, it added up to a $7500 giveaway. Let’s just hope that the people who downed the tasty little morsel purchased several $8.00 Beers (credit STBF) to wash down that white gushy stuff inside those crunchy bugs. POOP!!! ...

Fear Factor In The Northwoods League [Collegiate Summer League]
Published 7/21/2008 by Rick Chandler at Deadspin
... Above we see Mallards fan Adam Mandelman (It's go time!) earning his free ticket. Believe it or not, promotions such as this have made the Mallards the highest-attended collegiate summer league team in the nation; topping the 200,000 mark in each of the past two seasons. On July 13 the team unveiled the World's Largest Bratwurst (60-feet, 6 inches); and only Friday, July 13, the guest of honor was Eddie Munster (Butch Patrick). ...

Eating Bugs To Get The All-You-Can-Eat Seats
Published 7/21/2008 by Signal to Noise at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... Customers of the collegiate summer league Madison Mallards ate bugs to get free tickets . The Mallards hosted Beetle Eating Night at the Duck Pond at Warner Park, in which the first 250 people to eat a dead beetle received a free ticket to the ballpark’s all-you-can-eat-and-drink Duck Blind party deck — a $30 value. From my limited knowledge, it’s not often that beer is included in that category, but it better well have been for the 250 who managed to swallow their pride and swallow a bug to get in. Then again, I’m guessing there was plenty of beer ingested before the ...

Madisonians eat dead beetles for a whopping $30 prize
Published 7/21/2008 by 'Duk at Big League Stew
... So you can imagine how I felt, then, to find out that 250 of my former neighbors in Madison ate a live beetle to earn a free $30 ticket to the all-you-can-eat-and-drink party deck for the Mallards, a local summer collegiate baseball league. While I'm sure people have done far worse for free food and alcohol in a college town, I still have to question anyone eating a bug for a prize that trivial and small. (Although it's possible that after a few free and delicious pints from ...

Deadspin loves College Baseball?
Published 7/22/2008 by Brian Foley at The College Baseball Blog
... who ran an interesting promotion where the first 250 people to eat a dead beattle got into the game that evening for free. The Mallards are the top attended college summer league team in the nation and members of the Northwoods League. The full article from The Capital Times is available here . Tags: ...