To give the contests extra zing, the winners will take the lot.
Their seventh FA Cup success was even more of a narrow squeak than Michael Owen's mugging of Arsenal in 2001, with Steven Gerrard equalising in the 90th minute to send a pulsating contest into extra time.
The match four years ago came down to a couple chances on either side that pushed the contest to extra time, but if the Americans can dominate possession like they did last time around, they will create ample opportunities to pull ahead.
Wigan winger Joe Burgess scored a stunning length-of-the-field try in the last minute of normal time to help take the contest to extra time.
For example, lottery participants were given only two days to register on the web to be part of the contest -- an extra effort that may have been a turnoff for some.
The competition that began in August, with clubs such as Billingham Synthonia and Glossop North End contesting the extra preliminary round, travels by the inexorable logic of knockout to the greatest names and arenas of football.
Even after that equaliser United created such mayhem in the Uefa Cup holders' area that it might easily have brought the goal needed to steer this contest to extra-time.
A minute into the second period, Stein equalised again, but Yazalde then broke Ronnie McKinnon's leg – he'd miss the rest of the season – and then a late Manuel Pedro Gomes goal sent the contest into extra-time.
All that's left, to imbue these contests with extra-athletic import, is patriotism, and the hostility that seems to go with it.
We'll have snacks, drinks, and fun games to celebrate the holiday, including some contests for extra-special, rare succulents--so come take a break, make some new friends, and go green with BIO!
Students of the couple will go on arguing into eternity about the metaphysical aspects of their deadly contest, while the extra at one of the spare tables goes on pondering the consequences of honking her fruit parfait all over the cameraman.
