Stench of defeat real in Super Bowl bet
'HORSE MANURE' | Lincoln Park Zoo chief cleans up after Bears mess
Mayor Daley is betting the usual hot dogs and pizza against Arizona in the playoffs. Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon is countering with tequila candy and prickly pear jelly.
Aw, that's easy, considering Kevin Bell's experience.
Bell, president of Lincoln Park Zoo, spent Friday shoveling horse manure at the Indianapolis Zoo to settle a Super Bowl wager.
If Chicago's gridiron gladiators had won last February, Indy zoo CEO Mike Crowther, backing the Colts, would have had to scoop bear poop here.
Bell said his friends told him that Indianapolis would probably forget the bet. But a few days after the Colts beat the Bears 29-17, "they called me right up."
Betting on the Bears, "I thought it was a sure thing," said Bell.
Plus, he figured he had the better deal.
"Horse manure is easier than bear crap," he said.
By the way, Phoenix mayoral spokesman Scott Phelps was doing some shoveling of his own on Monday. Phoenix, he said, was making its baseball bet "with full knowledge we'll never have to send it."
In a final heave, Phelps added that when his boss was growing up in Chicago, he was a White Sox fan.