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This Dinosaur Dash Race Looks Like The Dumbest Thing Ever, Yet I Still Wish We Could Wager On It

UPI News -- More than 300 people donned inflatable dinosaur costumes and took to the track at Emerald Downs in Washington for the annual T-Rex World Championship Races.

The yearly event at the Auburn racetrack began when TriGuard Pest Control held it as a team-building exercise in 2017, and the race quickly gained popularity online and opened to the public the next year.

The full event is set to be aired on ESPN 2 sometime later in the summer.

What a stupid event. Just as dumb as it gets. You got to love the summer programming when it's just baseball running the show. You find yourself yearning for anything different. It's when you go "what the hell I'll give it a shot" and you fire up 2 quarters of a NBA Summer League game, or livestreams of the EYBL Peach Jam, or Cornhole, or the Little League World Series, and apparently Dinosaur races. Again, I want it on record I love baseball and watch the Mets in and out, but when it's over and then you can flip to The Rangers vs The Mariners out west or fire up a movie or a show, I'm picking the later. I think pretty much everyone else would agree. But random sports like this become that much more desired because you don't have literally anything else to choose from. 

Now this is by far the dumbest event I have ever seen. Literally the dumbest. Imagine being a person at work in an office on a Friday and someone in Marketing saying "Hey Bill any big plans for the weekend?" ... "Yeah well I have to rent a dinosaur costume and try to win this big race." Okkkkkk. Just as ridiculous as it can get. Almost one of those things where these people cannot be real people. You wonder how the function in the world. 

The most ridiculous part of this was people jumping out of a plane to do this. 

This year's T-Rex World Championship Races also featured an aerial event -- three people in T-Rex costumes jumped out of a Skydive Snohomish plane and parachuted down to the field before racing to the finish line.

Even though this is so insane, we should be able to wager on it at Draftkings. Imagine tuning into ESPN2 with the boys and saying "I love Joe Morris from Albany, NY in the Green Velociraptor suit." Imagine them parading them in like the Kentucky Derby flashing the odds? We need it. Give the people another thing to gamble on in the summer ! 




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