When the Chicago Bears and Indianapolis Colts played in the Super Bowl last February, there was a lot on the line - championship rings, pride ... and tickets to see Neil Sedaka.

There is a lame wacky tradition in American sports where championship games and series are bet on by the two mayors representing those cities. And in the last Super Bowl, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley made a bet with Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson, who accepted the wager.

Mayor Daley went the usual route, betting food items from around Chicago, along with clothing and even Bears colored furniture. But Indianapolis' Mayor Peterson upped the ante, offering local cuisine, but also an exclusive package of tickets to three events: the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Big Ten Basketball Championship, and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra ... featuring Neil Sedaka!

Now, it seems, this tradition has reached all the way across the ocean to our friends in the Utopian paradise of North Korea.

Seven or eight of you may know that the Women's World Cup is going on right now in China. Apparently, the games are on sometime in the middle of the night. Or so we're told.

One of the first matches of the tournament featured the United States playing North Korea. That game ended in a 2-2 tie, and let's just say North Korean coach Kim Kwang-min was less than impressed with the American squad:

"The U.S. is the best in the world, but today they didn't perform to their maximum. This gave us a chance to see our level, and if we meet the Americans a next time we will have the tactics to beat the Americans."

What most people probably didn't know is that North Korean ruler Kim Jong-il wrote a letter to President George Bush, offering to make a friendly wager on the game. Unfortunately, Bush declined, saying he had other things on his mind at the moment - wars, terrorism and the like.

However, DOTD has obtained the only known copy of this document from our contacts in North Korea - in exchange for a single potato. The following are the contents and terms of the wager Kim Jong-il proposed.

If the United States won, this is what Jong-il was going to give President Bush:

- Half of his $700,000 yearly supply of Hennessy.

- Exclusive access to one of North Korea's many "joy brigades" - which meant the use of each of the three teams employed there - the "satisfaction team," "happiness team," and "singing and dancing team."

- The use of one of his 7,000 Mercedes Benz S500 cars.

- Private one-on-one golf lessons with the Jong-il, to teach Bush how he consistently shoots three or four holes-in-one per round.

- Improving the quality of life for prisoners at the "education camp" known as Camp 22. Instead of stomping on the heads of babies born to the prisoners there, the infants will be allowed to survive on a work release program.

- Teaching Bush how to write six operas in two years, including choreography lessons.

Those are seemingly reasonable terms, and all Bush had to do was agree that if North Korea won the game, Kim Jong-il was to have received these amenities:

- The use of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan for one year in a joy brigade.

- His own movie studio, so he can add to his collection of 20,000 films.

- Since his personal film director escaped, Steven Spielberg must be deported to North Korea. Along with Spielberg, Sylvester Stallone also must be deported, so he can re-enact scenes from Rambo, one of Jong-il's favorite films, every day for the rest of his life.

- Bush must also give Jong-il complete control of the NBA, so the "Dear Leader" can watch his favorite sport at any time he pleases. He will also change the rules to more closely follow that of the rules Jong-il enacted - a dunk is worth three points, a three-pointer that is all net is worth four points, and any basket in the last three seconds of the game? That's worth eight points. Along with being penalized for missing a free throw - that's minus one point.

- He also wrote in a P.S. that if Bush wanted to go ahead and throw in some uranium, that would be okay too.

So, all America would have had to give up was Linday Lohan, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Sylvester Stallone, Steven Spielberg and the NBA. However, since the game ended in a 2-2 tie, even if the two men made the bet, it would have been nullified. But, that's soccer for ya'.