The Amazing Race 15 Weekly Blog: "Sweet Georgia Brown's " Swan Song

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving holiday. This weekend had many busy and crazy events from shopping to sports and now, the final four of The Amazing Race. Still at four thanks to a non -elimination at the last leg. The team that survived elimination was Brian & Ericka and they had an additional task to complete on this leg of the race.

Now that we are in the final four we are also at the most heated time of the race. Hotter than my grandmother used to be if you dared to enter her kitchen on Thanksgiving morning. There was already the tension of teams competing with the Harlem Globetrotters “Flight Time & Big Easy” and the dirty trick of the gay brothers Sam & Dan left stealing Brian & Ericka’s taxi definitely heated this competition.


This leg of the race was done at night and stayed in the city of Prague. Meghan & Cheyne, departed at 9:46, Sam & Dan at 10:13pm, “Flight Time & Big Easy” at 10:17pm and Brian & Ericka left the pit stop at 11:40pm


Teams had to travel to a local synagogue for their first clue which sent them to a museum for their ROADBLOCK TASK. But before Brian & Ericka could proceed to the “roadblock”, they had their exclusive “speed bump” task where they had to go to a local bar where they would have to create a mixed drink and drink it before continuing. It was an easy task but according to Brian & Ericka, it was an awful drink. But they were quickly on their way.

At the “roadblock” teams had to search through a room of telephones for a phone that would have someone on the other end of the line and that person would give them a letter and the person performing the roadblock task had to remember each letter told to them then do a word scramble in order to get their next clue. They had to do this while in a room screaming with the sound of old fashioned ringing telephones. Definitely not for the weak minded.

The difficult part of the task was when teams had to enter their word scramble on a form that also contained several questions meant to throw off their thought process. Taking advantage of this difficulty was one of the gay brothers Dan who met with one of the Harlem Globetrotters and they tried to help each other figure out the word clue. But when the gay brother got his clue approved, he ditched the Harlem Globetrotter and left. This was another dirty play, helping for a few minutes then leaving the other person hanging. But why the hell were they helping each other in the first place?

“Flight Time” had difficulty completing the “roadblock” as he could not get the correct word out of the letters provided and after Brian came and left, he decided to forfeit FOUR HOURS by giving up on the “roadblock”. The 4 hours was a time penalty issued for failure to complete the task. The Harlem Globetrotters had to wait out the time penalty before they could continue the race. Brian & Ericka were now in third place.


After the “roadblock” Meghan & Cheyne met with Sam & Dan arriving and they tried to take their taxi but failed. However Sam & Dan’s cowardly taxi driver called another taxi for Meghan & Cheyne. I see that as a failed attempt at karma since Sam & Dan were successful in taking Brian & Ericka’s taxi on the last broadcast.


Teams next destination was to a Kryocentrum facility where teams would have to strip down to a pair of Speedos, gloves and socks then endure 2 minutes in a kryotherapy room set to the freezing temperature of 180 degrees below zero. This is one of many times we have seen teams in some form of undress this season..

After spending 2 minutes in the deep freeze, teams traveled to a bridge for the “detour” task choices of “lager” where they would have to deliver and serve 30 mugs of beer to patrons at a local bar by carrying the filed mugs on a tray through the streets of Prague as they faced drunk people along the street distracting them along the way. Or “Legend” where teams would have to assemble a statue made of mud and clay and carry that to a destination to get their next clue. The statue would weigh nearly 300 pounds but Meghan & Cheyne held on but the gay brothers Sam & Dan dropped and broke their statue then argued throughout their task. They argued about their direction and complained about everything from getting dirty to the heavy weight of the statue. All the while Meghan & Cheyne completed the “detour” first and made their way to the pit-stop on an island near the Charles Bridge in Prague.

Brian & Ericka chose the “lager” detour task and Ericka dropped her tray and immediately wanted to give up and go do the other task. But they continued with the beer delivery task with Ericka yelling at people on the street.

Meghan & Cheyne made it into the FINAL THREE as the first team to arrive at the pit-stop. For this they each won a 52 inch television for winning this leg of the race.

The next team to arrive was SAM & DAN in second place and against my predictions and wishes because of their recent dirty tricks they are also in the FINAL THREE.

Brian & Ericka were the THIRD team to arrive and have made it to the final three and The Harlem Globetrotters didn’t even get to finish the rest of the tasks. They were sent to the pit-stop for their official elimination as the sun rose over the city of Prague.

“Flight Time & Big Easy” had the physical strength but not the mental strength to complete a word scramble task. But they were the biggest competitive threat for the other teams. And it took two gay bois to take them down. But karma will kick the gay brothers in their cute little asses (YEAH I SAID IT!) and if anyone cares, the person writing this blog happens to be gay. Doesn’t mean I will automatically support the gay team. This season’s token gays were capable of getting along on this race but have proven to be whiny little wussy brats that had to resort to playing dirty in order to survive. And it is that reason that I will NOT predict Sam & Dan to win The Amazing Race.

And so my record of predictions is the same. I was wrong most of the time. But then I watch, blog and make predictions just for the fun of enjoying the show. I am an Amazing Race fan that wishes I were good enough to compete on the show. I try to analyze the teams through their behavior and capability and offer my honest opinion although my opinion is more biased than it is honest and I admit that. Still I have fun blogging about it. I don’t even know if anyone is reading this. If you are then I thank you. If not, that’s ok, my blog stands as a permanent diary of what I was thinking at the time it was published.

But back to my predictions. Only prediction left is to guess who will be the winner of The Amazing Race. And for several legs of the race, Meghan & Cheyne were strong. They have their youth, physical and mental strength and all of that carried them though this race with great ease. They did argue some but never lost focus and I predict that Meghan & Cheyne will maintain their first place standing and become the winners of season 15 of The Amazing Race.

I would like to see Brian & Ericka win but I think the best will be their arriving in SECOND place with the brothers Sam & Dan embarrassing themselves into a third place finish. The only thing is that Brian & Ericka have to stop being nice guys and start kicking some ass! Actually BRIAN has to stop being a nice guy and start being the nasty bitch game that his wife Ericka talks but hasn’t exactly backed up her talk with. Ericka needs to sharpen her claws and transfer the words out of her mouth into action on her feet. And if the gay brother’s Sam & Dan were to have a chance at all, which I hope they don’t simply because of their punk-ass dirty trick moves in the past two episodes, they must stop the verbal cat-fighting with each other and focus on the game. I honestly don’t see that happening because now that they took down the one team that would have physically whipped their cute little asses they now have to face two people who are their same ages but who are in better physical and emotional shape.

So repeating my prediction for WINNER, it is hard to not predict that Meghan & Cheyne will win. I am sure this is one winners prediction I will get right. And we shall see next week, the final leg of The Amazing Race and my final Amazing Race blog of the year on December 6th!

Las Vegas here we come!

And in final tribute to "Flight Time & Big Easy" of the Harlem Globetrotters, here is that famous Globetrotter theme "Sweet Georgia Brown"