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Perry takes the bet, but he won’t budge on hat
Regardless of whether Baylor University’s women’s basketball team wins the national championship tonight against Michigan State University, Gov. Rick Perry has avoided posing in a funny-looking hat and clogs.
Perry and Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm today announced a bet on the game under which the winner will send goodies to the loser.
If Baylor wins, Perry will send Granholm a Baylor jersey to wear at her desk. She’ll also get Blue Bell ice cream and a case of Dr Pepper.
If Michigan State prevails, Granholm will mail Perry some Mackinaw fudge and a case of Vernors, a ginger ale, for Perry to gulp at his desk while wearing a MSU jersey.
Perry told agency heads that Granholm “first wanted me to wear some kind of funny hat … some type of hunting hat that you wear and people know you’re from Michigan, and some clogs. She said, ‘Take a picture of you with all that on and your feet up on your desk.’ “
“I said, ‘How about just a T-shirt?’ “
A Granholm aide confirmed the Michigan leader’s initial betting terms, saying the hat should be identified as a Stormy Kromer. And she said Granholm would have been willing to don a Stetson and cowboy boots if she’d lost.
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