Have pro sports come to this?
Daytona Cubs to Give Away Custom Funeral
The Associated Press
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - When the Big Umpire in the Sky calls you out for the final time, a minor league baseball team wants to send you to the showers in style.
The Daytona Cubs of the Class-A Florida State League are giving away a custom funeral to a fan who wins an essay contest. Contestants simply have to describe their perfect burial services in two pages or less.
Assistant General Manger Bill Papierniak tried the promotion last year with the Hagerstown (Md.) Suns. It generated almost 1,000 entries, and the winner was a World War II veteran who described the fellow servicemen he wished could have attended his funeral.
Not all the entries were so solemn.
"We had people who wanted to be buried with vats of beer," Papierniak said.
The contest runs through July 24 and will be judged by a four-person panel from the Cubs and Pinello Funeral Home.
Papierniak said the funeral with all the trimmings is currently valued at $5,000-$7,000. Even if the cost skyrockets, the prize has a lifetime warranty.
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