The ineptitude of the New York Giants has consequences some 3,000 miles away.
After Eli Manning threw five interceptions and the Giants were shut out at home for the first time in almost 20 years, a Seattle area car dealership has to pay out $420,000.
Jet Chevrolet, a car dealership in Federal Way, Wash., located 25 miles south of Seattle, had a promotion that if the Seahawks shut out the Giants, 12 people would split $420,000 equally.
“This is crazy,” said Jim Johnson, one of the owners of the dealership. “We never expected that we’d actually be giving away the money.”
Johnson says the company took out insurance which cost about $7,000.
Johnson originally wanted to do the shutout promotion last week when the Seahawks played the San Francisco 49ers, but he said working out the rules to make sure the giveaway was legal and in accordance with state regulations pushed it back a week.