It was a little over a year ago and Seattle was on what would be a journey to the Super Bowl. Wisecracking KJR morning man Mitch Levy was able to get an interview with Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory before a matchup between the Seattle Seahawks and the Carolina Panthers. Levy decided to have a little fun. He asked the Mayor if he wanted to make a friendly wager, if the Seahawks were to win, McCrory would buy Levy 2 tickets to the Duke-North Carolina game. If the Seahawks would have lost, McCrory said that Levy had to pony up 4 first class tickets to fly his family to Seattle as one of McCrory's relatives lives in the area. As you remember, the Seahawks did win. Levy (who has gotten into big trouble over bets before) decided to collect. What then ensued was a cat and mouse game where McCrory was harder to catch than the 2005 version of Saun Alexander. Mitch and his morning show staff made telephone calls, talked to his staff on the air, left unreturned voice mails for months. Finally a Seattle listener trapped the Mayor by pretending to work on the staff of someone he was going to lunch with. McCrory would up with egg on his face, but still would not face the music.
How funny. That doesn't surprise me cause the Mayor is so full of crap. He hates any radio people that doesn't kiss his butt. I hope these Seattle guys stay after him.
ReplyDeleteWriter's note, I need to make a correction, if the Seahawks would have lost, Mitch would pay for Pat's Seattle relatives to fly to Charlotte.
ReplyDeleteYou can now listen to the actual bet that Mayor McCrory made with Mitch Levy on the WFNZ website, here:
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(left column "Instant Replay" section)
Pat McCrory was elected governor of North Carolina in 2012, according to the Wikipedia.
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