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TIL in 1993 a fan at a Chicago Bulls game won a shot to make a basket from half court for $1million and made it. The insurance company disqualified him because he played bball in college but the te... (www.espn.com)

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[–] CupDock 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the most long winded article I've ever read. Don't need to know the dudes life story. Don't need to know what the author thinks was going through his head at every second of the day. Just get to the damn point!

[–] Idreamofcheesy 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you wanna be a bro and tell us the point of it so we don't have to suffer like you did?

[–] CupDock 3 points 1 year ago

I wanted to, truly, but it was too excruciating and time-consuming. Every time I scrolled past what felt like 100 paragraphs, I landed in some overly-descriptive inner dialog that the "main character" had when he was 5 years old. So I gave up. It reads like a fanfic.