Despite last year’s Tennessee Volunteers being one of the biggest disappointments in college football during the last couple of decades, and despite the fact that they’re playing Georgia on the road this season, I still plan to wager blog themes with UGA fans again. I’m putting this up now, lest I be accused of waiting to see how Tennessee’s game with Cal goes first.
It goes like this: If you take the bet and UT wins, you have to theme your blog in Tennessee orange (which I determined last year was hex code #efb118, but correct me if you think I’m wrong) and white for a week. If UGA wins, then I have to theme my blog with UGA red and black for a week for every person who takes the bet (with a max length of through the national championship game if there are that many takers). The themes will need to be posted by the Monday morning following the game. A week is seven days, not five, in this case.
See last year’s post for more details. And see this photo on Garrett’s Flickr for photographic evidence that I held up my end of the bet when the Vols got their asses handed to them last year.
Who’s in?
Fuck it, I’m in.
I won’t be a pussy like last year.
Go Dawgs!
You know I’m in.
I’m not putting up a red and black theme from now til whenever the season ends, though… I like my (relatively) new flower theme too much.
i’m in, but i don’t think you should have a maximum amount of weeks. especially not for jan. how about feb?
I’ll take the bet with the following condition:
The blog owner(s) who lose(s) the bet may not avail himself of any alternate stylesheets or viewing schemes to avoid seeing the winner’s color scheme for the agreed-upon duration.I was disappointed that you absolutely weaseled out of this last year, as I felt that coming face to face with your loss every day was part and parcel of the wager.I’ll take that condition, but attach a signing statement:
Garrett Vonk, the accusor, shall be referred to as “the accusor” for the duration of this statement. Rusty Tanton, author of Radical Georgia Moderate, shall be referred to as “the author” for the duration of this statement.
The accusor’s use of the term “weaseled out” is a reflection of his own lack of preparedness.
WHEREAS, the terms of the agreement stated that the author’s default theme must be converted to maxi-pad red and herpes sore black.
WHEREAS, visitors saw the maxi-pad red and herpes sore black theme by default.
THEREFORE, the terms of the agreement were met.
WHEREAS, no clause existed that prohibited the author from offering visitors alternative visual styles.
WHEREAS, the accusor never suggested such a clause in any forum.
THEREFORE, the accusor should instead turn his antagonism toward himself for not having the foresight to suggest such a clause.
Please note, to all who phrase their arguments as legalese in an attempt to not sound like a weasel: it has the opposite effect.
Quoth Rusty 2005â„¢:
Yes, you failed to explicitly define “blog theme” in the original rules. This doesn’t make you any less of a weasel for choosing a narrow enough definition after you lost that you wouldn’t have to actually ever see the results of your wager after you implemented the style.
Anyway, you absolutely fulfilled the terms of the bet. In the same way that if you had created a second
blog just for the occasion and never acknowledged its existence, but made it red and black, you technically would have “made [your] blog theme red and black for a week”. I guess it’s the whole spirit vs. letter thing.
While not explicitly stated, had I gone that route it would have been a gross violation of the spirit of the agreement.
Offering people a choice to change the theme themselves was not a gross violation, as I was not presenting any added barriers to viewing the results of the bet.
But whatever…
The question of just what is and isn’t a theme is a good one, as this theme probably wouldn’t meet the criteria of being themed in Orange and White were the tables reversed.
We probably need to build themes beforehand and get approval from our betting counterparts, which I did last year (voluntarily, I’d add).
A good rule of thumb would probably be at least 90 percent of the surface area of the site be covered by the school’s two primary colors, with no less than 40 percent of either one respectively (i.e. - an all-white theme with a single orange link doesn’t cut it).
The team’s logo should also be displayed prominently “above the fold” (visible in an 800×600 window without scrolling), with a size of no less than 100 pixels by 100 pixels.
Anything you’d like to add? Anybody find any of those terms unacceptable?
I completely agree with Garrett on that, Rusty, that was a really cheap way of getting out of the bet. The bet was not necessarily for visitors to see the Red & Black theme (as some of us thought it quite aesthetically pleasing, thank you), but for you to have to be faced with your overconfidence in a UT team that wasn’t able to keep you out of the losing column.
I’ll take the bet, once again, despite the fact that this year, I’m not too sure of UGA’s QB ability to make it happen. And, should I lose, will change the colors of my blog for the aforementioned 7 days.
Ack, sorry for the duplicate post. Hit “submit” before I gave it the glaring grammitcal error and tried to correct it before it went through. Alas, no such luck.
Heh, I’d already deleted the duplicate before you wrote the second comment.
To say I “[got] out of the bet” is bullshit, as the ridicule from UGA fans was relentless (gracious in victory you people are not) and everyone saw that theme unless they made a specific effort not to.
And… FYI, I actually used the UGA theme about half the time while it was up because I had to make sure nothing was broken.
Ah, but you were greatly ameliorating the effects of losing the wager in the first place. Vol fans (including yourself) had the option to see the theme once and never again, clearly a sidestep of the 7 weeks of torment that the bet was designed to inflict.Anyway, I’m mostly just being a dick.
Meh… Probably unnecessary. The spirit of the bet dictates that the color scheme be “Dawgs-/Vols-Themed”, with concomitant logo, and I think everyone here understands what that would entail.
You’d better be careful with this “you people” business!
Somehow I missed this post, but oh, you know I am in again
GO DAWGS!
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