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By now, many of you have probably heard that the kibosh was put on our Super Bowl Squares pool to benefit Jared Allen's Homes 4 Wounded Warriors. I spent part of my evening yesterday going through my PayPal and hitting the "refund" button for every transaction that had come in regarding the pool, and by now the refunds should, at the very least, be getting processed by the PayPal folks. I'm not sure what the time frame on that sort of thing is, but hopefully everyone will have their money back sooner rather than later.

As far as what happened, I'll divulge more of that at a later time. I'll give you a heads-up. . .that post likely won't be anywhere near as subdued as this one is.

Take the Leap of Faith (™ Kyle) with me, and I will explain what happened.

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We're getting closer, ladies and gentlemen!

As of this very moment, 80 of the 100 squares in our Super Bowl Squares pool to benefit Jared Allen's Homes for Wounded Warriors have been claimed. Of those 80 squares, 75 of them have been fully paid for. If you're one of the three people that currently has one of the five squares that are not paid for at this point, you have a little more than 36 hours to get your payment in, or you're getting kicked out of your squares and they will become available to whoever wants them.

As we have stated from the very beginning, I am keeping none of the proceeds from this pool. The total for the entire pool being filled will be $2,000 ($20/square times 100 squares). Of that money, $1,000 will go straight to Jared Allen's Homes for Wounded Warriors, and the other $1,000 will be split between the four people that are the winners in the pool. . .$200 for the first quarter score, $200 for the second quarter score, $200 for the third quarter score, and $400 for the final score.

The numbers for the two teams will be drawn whenever the grid is filled or a couple of hours before kickoff, whichever comes first.

In order to get into the pool, here is the information you need once again.

Board location: http://www.superbowlsquares.org/5hqbe/
Username: dnh4ww
Password: skol

Both the username and password are all lower case, just like you see there.

The PayPal address for sending in your entry fee is DailyNorseman AT Gmail DOT com, with the proper symbols being inserted at the obvious places. When sending in your money, please use "Other" as the reason for payment, as that's the best way to avoid PayPal fees.

Thanks to everyone that's stepped up so far. . .let's see if we can't get the rest of this board filled!

As of this very moment, there are 31 spots left in our Super Bowl Squares pool to benefit Jared Allen's Homes for Wounded Warriors. Of the 69 spots that have been claimed, 61 of them have been paid for.

As I mentioned in an earlier update, I realize that the first is payday for a lot of folks and that some of you might be waiting for that before you jump into the pool. However, I want to make sure that everything is bought and paid for by the time the big game comes around.

Super Bowl XLVI is one week from today, February 5. With that in mind, I am putting in the following disclaimer:

If I have not received some sort of PayPal message from you by midnight Central time on Thursday, February 2 (which is 10 PM on Wednesday, February 1 where I'm at), you will be removed from the pool and your squares will become available to whoever wants them.

I'm serious about raising this money for Jared Allen's charity, folks. . .and I did ask that people send the money before committing to spots in the pool. So, I'm giving those folks a chance to get their money sent in. I will contact the people that have claimed spots without paying via e-mail. . .no public shaming.

So, once again, here is the relevant information for our Super Bowl Squares pool.

Board location: http://www.superbowlsquares.org/5hqbe/
Board username: dnh4ww (all lowercase)
Board password: skol (all lowercase)

When you go through PayPal, be sure to use "Other" as your reason for payment to attempt to avoid fees. If your account is unverified, a fee will be charged anyway.

Thanks to everyone that has stepped up so far. . .by the time the big game comes around, we'll have everything ready to go!

We're over halfway home when it comes to filling up our Super Bowl Squares board, ladies and gentlemen. As it stands right now, we have filled 57 of the 100 available spots, meaning that there are only 43 more spots up for grabs. (Yes, the site says there are 44 available, but one of our folks actually sent in money for five squares when they thought they were only sending money in for four and, after further discussion, he is going to choose another one whenever he gets around to it.)

Of those 56 squares, 50 are currently all paid for. If I have you down for selecting squares and have not received a PayPal payment from you, I have contacted you via e-mail.

Again, the PayPal address for the payments is DailyNorseman at GMail dot com (again substituting the proper symbols in the proper places). Also, once again, when you send the payments in this direction, make sure to put "Other" as your reason for payment, or else a fee will get charged between the time it leaves your wallet and the time it enters the PayPal account.

Once again, this is the information you need in order to get into the game for your chance to win a couple hundred of dollars, and help us in our goal to donate $1,000 to Jared Allen's Homes for Wounded Warriors.

The board is located at the following web address:

http://www.superbowlsquares.org/5hqbe/

The username you will want to access the board with is dnh4ww, and the password is skol. Both of those are in all lower case, just like you see there. Remember, the cost is $20 per square.

Super Bowl XLVI is a week from Sunday, ladies and gentlemen. Squares are going fast, so if you want to get into the pool, you need to get there fast!

Since I was unable to bump yesterday's story for a couple of reasons, I'll just go ahead and do up a new post here for the status of our Super Bowl Squares game to benefit Jared Allen's Homes for Wounded Warriors.

Thus far, 27 of the 100 squares have been purchased, which means that we're over a quarter of the way to filling up the board. To this point, all of the squares that have been claimed are bought and paid for, which is pretty sweet. I know that it's that time of the month where folks might be waiting for pay day, and that's fine. . .we just want to have the board filled up before kickoff on Sunday, February 5.

If you need the information about the board again, here it is. The board is located at

http://www.superbowlsquares.org/5hqbe

The username for the board is dnh4ww, and the password is skol. All in lower case just like you see there. When you are ready to send the payment in, the proper PayPal address is DailyNorseman AT Gmail DOT com (substituting the proper symbols in the obvious places there). Remember, when you PayPal the money, please use "Other" as your reason for payment, or else PayPal will charge a fee in between the time it goes from your bank account to the PayPal account.

So there you have it. . .we're more than a quarter of the way to raising $1,000 for Jared Allen's Homes for Wounded Warriors. If you want to get in on the action, you still can!

Well, after some deliberation on my part, I have decided to go ahead and open up the Super Bowl Squares pool to benefit Jared Allen's Homes for Wounded Warriors.

The board is located right here. When you get to the site, you will need the following information:

Username: dnh4ww
Password: skol

Those are in all lower case, just like they are above.

Once again, the cost is $20 per square. The numbers will not be drawn until the grid is full. In order to pay for the squares, PayPal really is the best and most convenient way to make that happen. Our PayPal address is the same as the site address, that being Daily Norseman (all one word) at GMail dot com. If you're really, really, really opposed to PayPal for whatever reason, shoot me an e-mail suggesting an alternate means of payment, and I'll see if we can't make it work.

When you send the money via PayPal, be sure to choose "other" as your reason for payment, or else PayPal will charge a fee for the money sent. This is bad. Also, I ask that you please commit the money before you fill in your squares. To make it easier, please use your DN user name when filling in the squares (or, if you're finding this from outside of DN and you're not a member, use your name) and leave a message in the PayPal notes indicating what your DN username is, or the name you used to mark your spot(s) on the grid. That way I can mark you down as "paid" in the software that we're using for this endeavor.

Remember, the money will be split down the middle. If all 100 squares get sold, we will have $2000 overall. $1000 will be going to Jared Allen's Homes for Wounded Warriors, and the other $1000 will be divided between the four winners of the pool:

First quarter = $200
Second quarter = $200
Third quarter = $200
Final score = $400

Yours truly will be keeping exactly $0 of the proceeds from this contest. All of it goes to either charity or the folks that have the correct numbers.

If we fill up this board and enough interest has been generated, we can always start up a second board. We might even make the second board cheaper.

So, there you have it, folks. Get on board for a chance to win yourself some money on Super Bowl Sunday and help out a great cause!