Tennessee School Holds Cow Drop Raffle

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - That smell coming from Jefferson County High School's football stadium this fall? Let's just say it may not be the hot dogs. Those cheers from the crowd? Not for the team. In fact, the players won't even be on the field. They'll be on the sideline, rooting. For what? One lonely cow wandering a 100-yard field in search of a place to go to the bathroom.

Where the bovine ultimately decides to do her business will mean big bucks for the lucky person who bet on that portion of the field.

It's all part of a local charity's Oct. 16 "Cow Drop Raffle" to raise money for equipment to stock the football team's weight lifting room.

The Dandridge event is one of many planned by charities across the state now that the General Assembly has permitted gambling fund-raisers by certain nonprofit organizations.

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Dandridge and Jefferson County are way over the in the east, where the Republicans rule. Maybe it would be more interesting if they would put pictures of the Bush administration on the ground with their mouths open and see who gets the cow pie.

We called it "cow patty bingo".