Itsme
11-12-2005, 07:46 PM
They showed this on our local new tonight....wish it could have been me.
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Fan wins $1M at Florida State-Clemson game
Associated Press
Posted: 6 hours ago
CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) - Before Saturday, Chris Bostic was a $10-an-hour landscaper whose favorite football memories were running for touchdowns in Pee Wee football.
But after his perfect 25-yard spiral made it though the tiny hole in a promotional contest, the Army veteran has a new favorite memory and is South Carolina's newest millionaire.
Chris Bostic, a recent Army veteran from Myrtle Beach, S.C., won $1 million for this throw during the Florida State-Clemson game Saturday. (Emily Horos / Associated Press)
Bostic's pass at the end of the first quarter of the Florida State-Clemson game won him the $1 million in the Bi-Lo Healthy Choice Pigskin Challenge.
The Clemson fan said he thought the pass had a chance when it left his hands, 25 yards away from the 20-inch hole.
"It took forever in the air. But as it started to come down, I started thinking it just might go in," Bostic said.
The back end of the football clipped the bottom of the hole, bouncing through as the crowd at Memorial Stadium went wild.
Bostic jumped up and hugged some of the contest sponsors, eventually taking his oversized million-dollar check and pumping it over his head as he ran to the sidelines.
Since finding out he was selected for the contest a week ago, Bostic practiced in the yard with his family. The Clemson fan knew the pass was 25 yards, but had no idea the size of the target he had to make it through.
Arriving at the game with his dad, a Florida State fan, Bostic threw some balls in the parking lot while tailgating. But he didn't get a warm-up toss before his million-dollar throw.
Then came the contest. "There were nerves. I'm not used to being in front of so many people," Bostic said.
The nerves didn't show on the pass, which ESPN showed before the start of the second quarter.
Bostic was selected randomly from people who bought a Healthy Choice product at Bi-Lo during the contest period.
Bostic played linebacker at Myrtle Beach High and waited tables after graduating. He had thought about joining the Army and finally enlisted after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
"That pushed me to go in - do something for my country," Bostic said.
He served for a year in Afghanistan with the 25th Infantry, coming home in March. He got out of the Army in the summer and has been working as a landscaper for $10 an hour.
Bostic said he will show up for work Monday just because everyone has said he won't.
Minutes after his pass, his cell phone started ringing, with family, friends and old Army buddies all calling to congratulate him.
Bostic plans to use the money to take his 8-year-old daughter on a shopping spree.
"It's going to be an early Christmas," Bostic said.
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Fan wins $1M at Florida State-Clemson game
Associated Press
Posted: 6 hours ago
CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) - Before Saturday, Chris Bostic was a $10-an-hour landscaper whose favorite football memories were running for touchdowns in Pee Wee football.
But after his perfect 25-yard spiral made it though the tiny hole in a promotional contest, the Army veteran has a new favorite memory and is South Carolina's newest millionaire.
Chris Bostic, a recent Army veteran from Myrtle Beach, S.C., won $1 million for this throw during the Florida State-Clemson game Saturday. (Emily Horos / Associated Press)
Bostic's pass at the end of the first quarter of the Florida State-Clemson game won him the $1 million in the Bi-Lo Healthy Choice Pigskin Challenge.
The Clemson fan said he thought the pass had a chance when it left his hands, 25 yards away from the 20-inch hole.
"It took forever in the air. But as it started to come down, I started thinking it just might go in," Bostic said.
The back end of the football clipped the bottom of the hole, bouncing through as the crowd at Memorial Stadium went wild.
Bostic jumped up and hugged some of the contest sponsors, eventually taking his oversized million-dollar check and pumping it over his head as he ran to the sidelines.
Since finding out he was selected for the contest a week ago, Bostic practiced in the yard with his family. The Clemson fan knew the pass was 25 yards, but had no idea the size of the target he had to make it through.
Arriving at the game with his dad, a Florida State fan, Bostic threw some balls in the parking lot while tailgating. But he didn't get a warm-up toss before his million-dollar throw.
Then came the contest. "There were nerves. I'm not used to being in front of so many people," Bostic said.
The nerves didn't show on the pass, which ESPN showed before the start of the second quarter.
Bostic was selected randomly from people who bought a Healthy Choice product at Bi-Lo during the contest period.
Bostic played linebacker at Myrtle Beach High and waited tables after graduating. He had thought about joining the Army and finally enlisted after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
"That pushed me to go in - do something for my country," Bostic said.
He served for a year in Afghanistan with the 25th Infantry, coming home in March. He got out of the Army in the summer and has been working as a landscaper for $10 an hour.
Bostic said he will show up for work Monday just because everyone has said he won't.
Minutes after his pass, his cell phone started ringing, with family, friends and old Army buddies all calling to congratulate him.
Bostic plans to use the money to take his 8-year-old daughter on a shopping spree.
"It's going to be an early Christmas," Bostic said.