Personal Narrative: A Day At The Super Bowl Party

There was more than one champion on the day of Super Bowl XLVII. When I was in 8th grade, my family hosted a Super Bowl party. My family and our guests had a Super Bowl pool. Two dollars were collected from each guest and the winner, my friend Conor, left that night with $40. This enjoyable night sparked my interest in gambling on sports.
A month or so later, my classmates and I created another betting pool for March Madness and the Stanley Cup playoffs. We placed our names in a hat and that determined the order for whom got to pick their teams in what order. After everyone drafted their teams for both bets, we decided that each participant had to pay $5. The next day I collected the cash and our selections were written down on a piece of paper. While we were writing down the team names a teacher grabbed the paper away and realized that we were betting, so she gave the paper to the principal and we were all called down to her office. One person went into the office at a time, while the rest had to remain outside her office. We all agreed to deny that money was collected, even though the paperwork indicated that $5 was collected from each participant. Mrs. Augello, our
None of the parents thought the incident was a big deal, especially since the school sent another letter that same day advertising their annual casino night. The morning after, we were called down to her office again to receive our punishment. She eventually decided our punishment would be to go to church on Sunday and hand out right o life flyers at end of the mass. A couple of days later one of the students discovered that along with the letter that the principal sent to the parents was a photocopy of the sheet of paper that was used to record the bets. We decided to use the photocopy and continue the bets. This time we were much more secretive about the bet and did not get caught a second