The bookstore at the U is extra sensitive to the feelings of their starving students, and provides another way to ease the pain, stress, and sorrow. They have this big wheel set up, in a wheel of fortune fashion, that students can come and spin to get some kind of prize. Some of the prizes were gift certificates, or another 5 bucks, or candy bars, T-shirts, Hats, etc., etc. Anyway, hoping for another 5 bucks, I went up and spun the wheel. My heart raced as I realized that a minimal amount of my fate rested on the final result of the wheel's circular dance. As it began to slow down, as they usually do, I was able to get an idea of about where it was going to land. I figured my best bet was the wedge labeled "Candy", so I started cheering for the Candy Bar! Much to my eventual confusion, it landed on a wedge titled "U-Turf." What is U-Turf you ask? Well, so did I.
The people running the wheel got very excited and said "YOU WON THE TURF!!!!" One of the lady's reached behind the table to a stack of wooden boxes, grabbed one, and handed it to me.
"What's this?"
"It's worth a hundred dollars!!!!"
So, I walked off with a wooden box worth 100 dollars. Upon later inspection, I realized that the wooden box had a seal that said "Rice-Eccles Authentic Stadium Turf." I opened the box to reveal a piece of green and white astro turf! The label on the back of the lid informed me that this was a piece of the field where the Runnin Utes went undefeated... TWICE! I decided to do a little google-ing to find out exactly how much my new box of fake grass was worth. KSL apparently did a story on it. According to the story, it really is worth 100 bucks!
Well, I still haven't decided what to do with my box of plastic grass... any ideas?
