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Seahawks’ Super Bowl touchdown costs Ford dealership $300,000

Seattle fans had reason to cheer during last Sunday's Super Bowl game, as wide reciever Percy Harvin returned the kick to start the second half, delivering an 87-yard touchdown that put the Seahawks up against the Broncos by 28-0. Jim Carey and his wife Mary Jane were screaming louder than most, as they were about to win a full refund on their newly-purchased, $53,190 Ford F-150 pickup — a Super Bowl promotion that cost the Hutcheson Ford dealership in St. James, Mo., a total of $300,000.

The "Super Weekend Sale" stated that if a customer purchased a car between January 29 and February 1, and the opening kick of either the first or second half of Super Bowl XLVIII resulted in a touchdown, Hutcheson Ford would provide a full refund of the entire vehicle's purchase price. The chance of this actually happening? Two and a half percent.