I might have just uncovered one of the most accurate superbowl predictors in recent history: Me. I’m not making a joke here. In the all too unpredictable world of guessing who is going to the show I am 5 for 6 in the last six years. How do I do it, you ask? By being a flag football coach.
Follow me for a moment. Seven years ago I started picking which teams my kids played for. I took the advice of a good friend and tried to give them a new team as much as possible. I often had one kid be the Giants, because they are the best football franchise ever. Still the others were subject to this new opportunity. In that first year, 2009, I picked the Packers. They went to the Superbowl in feb of 2011. The next year we were the Giants, then the Ravens, then the Seahawks, then the Broncos… I was also spot on with the Saints when they took it, but I didn’t choose that team name.
Three guesses who all my kids played as last year:
Yep, the Falcons.
This is spooky accurate and somewhat sad now, because I did not coach this year and the one kid who played is playing as an LA Ram. Meanwhile his brother has been helping the Texans during their practices. It would stand to reason that one or both will be in the championship next year.