I put out a half-serious call on Twitter this morning, asking if UConn fans would sacrifice a finger for a spot in a Power 5 conference. The responses were overwhelming.
@Russ_Steinberg Certainly don’t need my right ring finger for anything but the uiok keys. Chop it off and put us in the ACC
— Drew Schneider (@DrewiSchneider) January 8, 2016
@Russ_Steinberg Absolutely! Doesn’t matter which finger. Take any of them!
— Jeff Buss (@JBuss9) January 8, 2016
.@Russ_Steinberg would sacrifice anything except thumb or middle finger. Thumb separates me from the apes & middle needed when we play @Cuse
— Penfield (@BpenfieldJ) January 8, 2016
@Russ_Steinberg do you think it’ll help if I send my severed pinky fingers to their offices?
— Rob Gilbert (@giblit88) January 8, 2016
@Russ_Steinberg @ADimeBack Yes.
— Drew Granucci (@drewsephg) January 8, 2016
@Russ_Steinberg Pinky….that is a no brainer….. and tell @BCgenius to go home and get his shine box
— John Enright (@johnenright43) January 8, 2016
@Russ_Steinberg only for the big ten
— mike (@mikereardon31) January 8, 2016
So now I’m all in. I’m serious. I’ll be around later today to collect the fingers. I also asked if there was anything else you guys would be willing to sacrifice, and got a few responses…
@Russ_Steinberg does hair count????
— John Enright (@johnenright43) January 8, 2016
@Russ_Steinberg well in my defense I am 46 years old, and I still have a magnificent mane, but I would throw in my pancreas….
— John Enright (@johnenright43) January 8, 2016
@Russ_Steinberg I’d do an appendix too
— Matt Necci (@MattNecci) January 8, 2016
That’s our lineup. We’ve got a ton of fingers, some hair, an appendix and a pancreas. Please have everything ready for me when I come to pick them up (probably this evening unless I can leave work a little early). I’ll distribute body parts evenly into three packages and send one to the Big Ten, one to the ACC and one to the Big 12.
Thank you for playing.
