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Meriden Man Makes $100,000 Mistake in NCAA Bracket

Corey Johnson was poised to take home the cash heading into the NCAA Championship, but you'll never believe what this UConn fan forgot.

Corey Johnson is now famous for something that may haunt him for the rest of his life. A costly mistake, one may call it. Really costly.

The Meriden, Conn., resident — and UConn Huskies fan — reportedly didn't properly save his final selection for a national champion in Warren Buffett's Quicken Loans Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge. He had the right match-up — Connecticut vs. Kentucky — and in his heart and mind he knew his pick.

But for some reason, Johnson explains in a video posted on YouTube, his winning selection did not register on the website. [You can check out his bracket here.]

Now his friends and supporters are hoping to help Johnson get his big payout. They have started a petition on change.org, in an effort to get Quicken to hook him up with the cash. More than 450 people had signed it at the time of this writing, and they're spreading the word on social media using the hashtag #PayCoreyJohnson.


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