A Purdue University Student Won A Car In A Halftime Competition, Now The Scumbag Car Dealership Is Trying To Take It Away

IndyStar - After successfully kicking 20-, 30- and 40-yard field goals during a halftime break on Aug. 31, Purdue student Zachary Spangler was later told his final kick was five one-hundredths of a second too late. Though Spangler, a junior in the College of Agriculture, was told immediately after the competition that he'd won [A two year lease on a new car], Spangler said he received an email Thursday from Trey Rohrman, director of operations for Rohrman Honda in Lafayette, breaking the news.

Disgusting. Is nothing sacred?!?

I live for random fans getting pulled out of the stands at halftime to compete in competitions. It's almost as exciting as when the t-shirt cannon comes out to launch wadded up XXXL Gildans into the crowd. But variety is the spice of life, and what makes halftime fan competitions so great is they are like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. 

Sometimes you get the most athletic person you've ever met laying an egg (due to injury), sometimes you have average joes getting injured by showing they're warriors willing to tear every single knee ligament to win big bucks, and sometimes you get someone who makes you question if they've ever watched a single second of the sport they are attending. 

Then sometimes you have a halftime competition that makes you question if all is lost in this once beautiful country of ours. For this car dealership to go back on their word of giving a Purdue University student a free two year lease on a car is a disgraceful miscarriage of justice, and deserves a lifetime jail sentence. This kid was told he won the competition, then the dealership gets back to him and tells him he's lost by a fraction of a second according to rules the dealership just made up on the spot. 

I can't say this is a surprise from this dealership because after decades of subjecting Indiana to the worst commercials of all time, this is the type of slime ball move I'd except - all to save about $15,000 by not giving his kid his car. Bad commercials, even worse businessmen. 

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Luckily, this disgusting injustice is bringing together the community in ways we never could have expected. A car dealership associated with Indiana University athletics (Curry Auto) is now reaching out to offer a lease to the Purdue University student. 

Somethings are bigger than sports. Hoosiers helping Hoosiers, powerful stuff. The same year bitter rivals Indiana and Purdue got divorced and split up the IUPUI campus (a former beacon of hope to show worst enemies can get along) we've got athletics proving that deep down we are all Hoosiers. 

I'd say it's karma if this dealership ends up losing a million dollars in revenue by showing they aren't people of their word. In this world all we have is our word and halftime skills competitions, and we can't break them for anyone.