Earlier this month, my wife and I were in Disney with a bunch of college friends for a 3 day weekend. As some of you may know, Disney's MGM Studios features a "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" game... with an audience of 500 people.

The first person in the "hot seat" is the fastest amongst the 500 to put 4 things in order (based on a question)... with options A, B, C, D.

The day we were at MGM, we had 12 people... 10 of which went to WVU. In the hopes of doing "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" later that day, I had quick group meeting to discuss strategy. There are only 24 permutations of ordering A, B, C, D. For the first question, if you actually read it, someone else will have already beaten you. So, each of us decided to take one permutation when it came time to go.

Moments later, we realized the first show started in 3 minutes, and we did the best we could to delegate permutations as we rushed through the closing doors. The person to the left of me had B-A-C-D. I took B-A-D-C. The person to the right of me took B-C-A-D.

If each of us typed in our ordering as soon as the key pad opened (and no others had the same idea as us), we'd have a 50% chance of one of us being in the hot seat.

However, after typing mine in and getting the thumbs ups from my immediate neighbors, I noticed our friend Julie (two seats to my right) only typed "B", as A, C and D were still blinking on her key pad. It was her first time in the show, but it was one of those "you had to be there" funny moments.

Anyway, here came the results...

B...
A...
D...
C !!!

I'll be damned if B-A-D-C wasn't it. Yes, I got in the hot seat. I made it to 64,000 (4 questions from a Disney Cruise... instead of the $1 million).

But, here's a cool nugget to this...

Of course, the host (Robbie Winkleman) asked where I was from, etc, and I was wearing my WVGameDay.com issued "Morgantown" t-shirt.

Appearing to have personal knowledge of WV, he aided the discussion of how great the state was. Having 11 friends in the audience did too. I even got to throw out "the South Beach of Appalachia" in front of 500 people. (See ESPN's Bruce Feldman's recent assessment on the Quote Board).

After the show, I was taken to the prize room to sign forms, etc. The host came back (which supposedly he rarely does) and says... "I couldn't say it out there, but... class of 87... go Mountaineers!".

The Erie native and I talked for a bit, and in those few minutes I learned he was just a really nice guy. He joked that he spent all his time either in the CAC (theatre major) or on Sunnyside.

He said he and his wife visited last summer and couldn't believe how much things have grown/changed... and they discussed moving back if things don't work out according to their hopes.

Just another example of how Mountaineers are everywhere.