Philadelphia Columnist Honors Bet To Eat His Words After Failed Super Bowl Prediction
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A Super Bowl bet left one Philadelphia columnist literally eating his words Tuesday.
Before the Birds' big Super Bowl win, Stu Bykofsky, a Philadelphia Daily News columnist, wrote a prediction that the Philadelphia Eagles would lose to the New England Patriots but added, if they won, he would eat that column.
#Philly columnist @StuBykofsky literally eats his words (his column) after saying the @Eagles would lose the Super Bowl he ate it on a @Wawa hoagie and washed it down with a @budlight @KYWNewsradio #SuperBowlChamps #FlyEagelsFly pic.twitter.com/GyRQqjMJSh
— Justin Udo (@JustinUdo) February 6, 2018
On Tuesday afternoon, Bykofsky honored the bet and ate his words.
"The words were almost as sweet when I taste them, as when I read them myself," he said.
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However, Bykofsky says his insatiable appetite ran into a problem.
"The column is not enough to make a meal," he said.
To fix that problem, Bykofsky used part of his column as sprinkles on top of a tub of gelato, and the other part he lathered in olive oil and ate on a Wawa hoagie.
"I tell you the pistachio gelato is really sensational," he said.
Some reporters stand by their word, but Bykofsky takes his to heart, or, better, yet his stomach.