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Tom Terrific
The Brady era isn’t over just yet.
Nate Silver became famous for his political prognostication, but his Super Bowl prediction this year can be no better than half right: he called for a match between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots.
“I think that if you have a Denver-New England AFC Championship Game, that might be one of those cases where that’s the de facto Super Bowl,” Silver observed. Why couldn’t his crystal ball have been so foggy when it came to the presidential election?
Peyton Manning was voted the quarterback of the 2012 AP All-Pro first Team. Aaron Rodgers won second team honors. Then there is Tom Brady, whose NFL season still continues.
Manning’s Denver Broncos were eliminated in their first playoff game, after the former Indianapolis Colt led them to a 13-3 record and AFC West division title. He tossed an errant pass that was intercepted just before double overtime, setting up the Baltimore Ravens in field goal range.
Rodgers led his Green Bay Packers to the top of the NFC North, beating division rivals during wild card weekend. But the team’s inconsistent offensive line and lackluster defense finally caught up with him. Rodgers and the Packers are out of the playoffs.
Drew Brees, Eli Manning, Ben Roethlisberger — none of them even led their teams to the postseason this year in the first place. Promising rookies like Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III, and now Russell Wilson have all gone home.
Brady and his Patriots still stand. Playing against the vaunted pass rush of the Houston Texans, he was 25 of 40 for 344 yards, three touchdowns, and no interceptions. Brady has passed his boyhood hero Joe Montana for the most playoff wins by a quarterback.
Over the course of the 2012 season, Brady threw for more yards than either Rodgers or the elder Manning. He threw fewer interceptions than Manning and as many as Rodgers. His 34 touchdowns were ranked fourth in the league.
People are always coming up with excuses to take the shine off Brady’s accomplishments. They don’t like his model wife or his own good looks. They don’t like his coach. They sneer about him not winning a Super Bowl since the much ballyhooed Spygate scandal.
Since Spygate, Brady has appeared in the Super Bowl twice and has had his five best statistical seasons. He has been to the playoffs every year. The only season since 2002 where the Patriots didn’t make the playoffs, Brady was injured and not playing.
Brady is now 35. His best regular seasons, and two of his five Super Bowl appearances, have come since he turned 30. In 2007, he led the Patriots to 16 regular season wins and threw 50 touchdowns. In 2010, he threw just four interceptions.
Can Brady win a fourth Super Bowl? Since the disappointment of 2007, when the New York Giants shattered his perfect season, he has been getting closer every year. The Patriots were bounced from the playoffs in the wildcard round in 2009. They won a first-round bye only to be eliminated in the divisional round in 2010. They made it to the Super Bowl but lost their rematch with the Giants for the 2011 season.
Perhaps Brady would have won that Super Bowl if he had a healthy Rob Gronkowski. He likely would have gone to the big game and won if Deion Branch had stayed with the team for its AFC Championship run in 2006. Maybe if he had stayed healthy in 2008.
Gronkowski is injured again, unavailable even in a limited role. Baltimore’s Joe Flacco, whose Ravens the Patriots play next, has developed into a good deep ball quarterback, with a very solid set of receivers, as he prepares to lead a team that wants to help retiring Ray Lewis earn one more ring. The 49ers and Falcons are serious obstacles as well. The former just recently beat the Patriots, while the latter just won their first playoff game. Flacco, Matt Ryan, Colin Kaepernick — these are some the names vying to be the league’s next Brady. They will each have a chance. The NFL would love a quarterback on that level after Brady and Manning are retired.
But the Brady era isn’t over just yet. He is gunning for another of Montana’s milestones: four Super Bowl wins. He has his chances, too.
About the Author
W. James Antle, III, author of the new book Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?, is editor of the Daily Caller News Foundation and a senior editor of The American Spectator. You can follow him on Twitter @jimantle.
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TLP| 1.14.13 @ 6:20AM
Since Spygate he's been in two Super Bowls, and LOST them both. His wife is a SKANK. His Coach is a Freak. And his House looks like The Whore House Mall of America.
Patriots SUCK!
The Niners will CRUSH the Patriots.
TLP| 1.14.13 @ 6:37AM
And, that's IF they get past Ray Lewis, and the Ravens.
And, that's a Big IF.
Pretty Boy's going down, HARD.
Patriots Suck!
Doctor Right| 1.14.13 @ 10:36AM
There's a weird vibe surrounding the Ravens...
Last time they had this vibe was during the 2000 playoffs.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a Harbaugh vs. Harbaugh matchup in the SB.
Occam's Tool| 1.14.13 @ 2:20PM
I do hope Ray Lewis does do an EXPLODO on Tom Terrific...
TLP| 1.14.13 @ 4:00PM
Revenge is definitely, a meal served Cold.
Go Ravens!
Bob Grant| 1.14.13 @ 4:20PM
TLP,
You DO understand Ray Lewis was potentially directly involved in a double homicide?
Tampering with evidence, tampering with witnesses? ....remember?
Go Brady!
TLP| 1.14.13 @ 5:53PM
I get it.
But, as far as I know, he wasn't charged. And, as a Giants Fan, I Hate the Patriots.
Go Ravens!
CJW| 1.14.13 @ 6:06PM
Lewis and two of his two pals were involved in killing two men. Lewis and his pals sped away in Lewis' limo.
Lewis did not stop to help or call the police.
Leis was indicted for murder, then cut a deal to plead to obstruction of justice, a misdemeanor, in return for testifying against his two pals. His friends got lucky with an OJ jury and were found not guilty.
The NFL fined Lewis $250,000 for lying to the police.
The families of the two murder victims did sue Lewis for wrongful death claims, and Lewis, at least to his credit, unlike OJ, settled and paid.
Bob Grant| 1.14.13 @ 6:37PM
CJW,
Think about it. It was the year 2000. Less than a year removed from the Rae Carruth murder charges, a couple of years removed from the Dallas Cowboys scandals, and not that far removed from the O.J. Simpson murder incident.
The NFL had image problems!
Along comes Ray Lewis - an up-and-coming NFL superstar - involving himself in a double homicide during a work-related trip (Superbowl weekend). It becomes quite obvious he's directly involved: he disposes of his clothing worn that evening; he advises his "posse" to keep their mouths shut; he tells the limousine driver to keep his pie hole shut. The all comply. A quick and speedy trial ensues and it mysteriously vanishes from the press, as though it never occurred. Shortly after, Ray Lewis goes on the most remarkable public relations campaign in history. He goes on to become a perennial pro bowl defensive player, top product endorser, and "all around great guy"....
He was never truly forced to explain his part in the incident; the NFL embraces him like a saint; and will soon become a key spokesman for the NFL when he retires.
This whole affair was all too neatly "handled" from the beginning because the NFL could ill afford another P.R. nightmare and obviously Ray Lewis needed the NFL to save HIS ass.
That's ok, however, because the Concussion Problem will spell doom for the NFL. What goes around comes around.
Grzmlyk| 1.15.13 @ 1:16AM
The NFL has become, like most institutions in our progressive age, an obnoxious example of the never-ending, balls-to-the-wall PR campaign. You watch a pregame show today and you could be forgiven for thinking it's a soap opera. The players are all presented as great American heroes and wonderful human beings; they are coached to within an inch of their lives as to what to say and how to act on camera.
But behind the scenes, the thuggery only accelerates as our culture allows these demigods to behave however they want - and in fact enable that behavior at every opportunity.
The NFL has long since gotten its "mind right" regarding its liberal posturing (witness the pink month of October, during its relentless breast cancer awareness dog and pony show). And one essential element of a liberal institution is shamelessly to project a face of compassion, decency, kindness and equanimity to the public - and then you are inoculated against repercussions for your animalistic, hedonistic, narcissistic, abusive, entitled behavior away from the cameras.
I'm still a football fan because I enjoy the game. But I've come to loathe the NFL. It's a perfect example of the two-faced false consciousness that has infected this country.
Frank Drackman| 1.14.13 @ 8:22AM
Niners will CRUSH(when you type in all caps, its like your a 13 year old girl) the Patriots??
Maybe next year, Falcons are gonna RISE UP(now you've got me doin it) and slap you Bee-otches upsaid yo' latte sippin Haid's
Frank "reppin the 7-7-0" Drackman
JohnD| 1.14.13 @ 8:26AM
Brady is a sissy, who needs special rules and the refs to protect him. Last year's Super Bowl appearance came courtesy of a scoreboard error that rushed the Ravens kicker into missing a chip shot. Brady is terrified of Baltimore's pass rush, and look for him to be whining to officials, and signaling them to throw flags every time anyone makes contact with him (and the refs obediently throw the flag every time he calls for it).
The only way Brady beats Baltimore Sunday is if the refs extend Patriot drives with pitty pat roughing calls and personal fouls. That's they only way they have ever beaten Baltimore. Last year Flacco put up double Brady's numbers on the road in the Championship game, and the scoreboard error was needed to negate Baltimore's better play.
Gr0w1er601| 1.14.13 @ 9:18AM
You ARE right, JohnD- Brady DOES whine a lot to the zebras. That's why I like Kaepernick a lot: he runs with authority and physicality. Every time Tom Terrific scrambles, here comes the 'chicken slide'. I hate that.
Doctor Right| 1.14.13 @ 10:37AM
Kaepernick is AMAZING.
I've never seen a QB run like that.
Frank Drackman| 1.14.13 @ 8:34AM
Ray Lewis is gonna KILL somebody!!!!!!!
Not during the game, at the Afterparty....
Frank
Cpm| 1.14.13 @ 12:58PM
I thought he already had.
Frank Drackman| 1.14.13 @ 1:46PM
2 guys picked a fight with Ray Lewis????
Wasn't that on the Darwin awards?
Frank
Gr0w1er601| 1.14.13 @ 9:06AM
Sure Brady and the Pats can win another Super Bowl- as long as they're NOT playing the New York Giants...
Frank Drackman| 1.14.13 @ 1:48PM
Pssstttt, the New York Giants moved West like 50 years ago....
Oh, you're talkin about the New York FOOTBALL Giants..
Pssssst, the New York FOOTBALL Giants moved West(and North, East, and South) about 2 weeks ago...
Frank
Eddie_Valiant| 1.14.13 @ 9:08AM
Tom Brady's wife doesn't play football and only a moron would make a statement like TLP (the little penis?) did.
Brady has become and is arguably the best quarterback in the NFL, and the statistics bear that statement out. Go look them up. He was just a backup QB to Drew Bledsoe and became a starter when Bledsoe was injured. The rest, as they say, is history.
The Brady-Belechick duo has won more games than any other coach / QB team. Brady has appeared in more post-season games than any other QB. While I'd have been happier if the Pats had won all of those post-season games, I'm pleased that one of the greatest to ever play the game took the perpetual bottom-dwelling Patriots and made them one of the most respected teams in the NFL.
New England sports fans have been fortunate to have some of the best in pro sports play on local teams - Bobby Orr for the Bruins, Ted Williams for the Red Sox, Larry Bird and Bill Russell for the Celtics. When Brady retires the Pats may become just another NFL team. I doubt there will be another with the incredible talent of Tom Brady in my lifetime. He's one in a million.
TLP| 1.14.13 @ 9:26AM
Brady's a Punkass Crybaby, and his wife is a Pig. Or did you forget how she went after Sissy Boy's Teammates after the Giants kicked their @sses, again.
I got $50 says Ray Lewis knocks him outta the game.
And, the Red Sox couldn't Suck anymore, if they had Purp, Pelleas, AlanaskmewhereIkeepmy bat Brooks, AND this Ass Wad - Eddie Valiant - on the team.
Even his name Sucks.
Frank Drackman| 1.14.13 @ 10:44AM
TLP, be honest,
you don't have $50.
and would you really call Brady's wife a pig to his face? And I mean Mano a umm in your case it'd be Mano a Pussy-O, where there wouldn't be any Security, Reporters, to protect you, Oh I'm Sorry, to protect Brady from your Rad Kung Fu Skills...
When there'd be nothing between you 2 except "Air & Opportunity" as we say in the part of the Country that loves America so much we fought a war to leave it...
"Giants"??? Oh that team the Fal-Coons beat in a meaningless late season tune up for the Playoffs.
Frank "Risin Up" Drackman
Cpm| 1.14.13 @ 1:02PM
TLP wouldn't call Brady's wife a pig to her face, because she would kick his ass.
OP4| 1.14.13 @ 12:54PM
Is there anyone tougher than an internet tough-guy?
Seek| 1.14.13 @ 1:12PM
Why the envy, TLP? For that is what your "masculine" broadside really is: hatred of a human being to whom things seemingly come "too easy." Tough luck, buddy. Tom Brady worked his ass off to get where he is. You see his good looks, the trophy wife -- it looks so effortless, doesn't it? Ah, but what you won't see are his 80-100 work weeks reviewing the playbook, getting every last detail right in practice, building strength in weight room, talking to coaches, leaving nothing to chance. He's earned his accolades.
I'll put my money on another Pats Super Bowl win, not to disparage, of course, the other three brilliant teams.
TLP| 1.14.13 @ 2:17PM
Trophy Wife?
She's a Scrawny European Pig.
My wife's 10 times better looking than that boney Skank.
The Tuck Rule? You can't hit the Quarterback in the knees?
Give me a break.
He's a pussy, and the Ravens are gonna Kick His @ss.
I look forward to the beating he's gonna take on Sunday.
He's a Punk, like you.
Frank Drackman| 1.14.13 @ 3:19PM
Pickin on a woman..(a German Woman, who would make you cry like the wanna-be-woman-Bee-Otch you are BTW)I know, Giselle doesn't meet your Homosexual idea of feminine beauty...
And I know, T-iny L-ittle P-enis, you're really Terry Bradshaw, winning QB of whatever Superbowls he won, back in the dark days of "Superstars" on rainy Sunday Afternoons (Watchin Alex Karras do Squats :(
A Baltimore fan? Figures.
And I'm no Shrink, but you unconsciously said you're looking forward to the beating your Wrecked-Em' is gonna take on Sunday...
Frank
Bob Grant| 1.14.13 @ 4:28PM
Timmy my boy, get a map!
She' (((Brazilian))), she gorgeous.
TLP| 1.14.13 @ 5:55PM
So, she's a skinny Brazilian Skank.
Same thing.
I wouldn't F her with Pesco's d**k.
TLP| 1.14.13 @ 6:00PM
Gorgeous?
Obviously, you and I have a different definition of Gorgeous.
My wife is Gorgeous. Scarlett Johannaon is Gorgeous. Jessica Alba is Gorgeous.
Gazelle, is Scrawny, with Skeleton Legs, and a Big Nose.
You can have her.
CJW| 1.14.13 @ 4:44PM
Tim
Are you a Giants and Yankees fan? I see you hate Boston,
I cannot stand the lowly ravens. The original Cleveland Browns, a great franchise with players like Jimmy Brown and Leroy Kelly, were bought by Art Modell, who moved the team to Baltimore. Baltimore had lost is John Unitas Colts to Indianapolis.
Steelers had a great rivalry with the original Browns and it has transferred to the lowly ravens.
I want the Ravens to beat the Patriots. Brady has three Super Bowls, and we cannot have him win another and tie Terry Bradshaw, who leads with four. Then Atlanta wins.
There was a sign at a Steelers-Falcons game that said "Atlanta is no falcon good."
TLP| 1.14.13 @ 6:02PM
The only way Atlanta gets to the Super Bowl, is if they buy a Ticket.
CJW| 1.14.13 @ 6:07PM
I don't care who wins as long as the Patriots and Ravens lose.
Butch| 1.14.13 @ 7:57PM
The 79 Steelers were the best football team I ever saw, CJW: Bradshaw, Franco, Rocky Blier, Mean Joe, L. C. Greenwood, Dwight White, Lambert, Jack Ham, who was the Hall-of-Fame cornerback, Mike Webster. Most of the starting lineup seems to be in the Hall of Fame. Swann and Stallworth, that tight end (what was his name?). That was the best team I ever saw assembled. Love to see something like that again. Even beat Roger and my beloved Cowboys.
CJW| 1.14.13 @ 8:44PM
Butch
I agree. Mel Bluont was the HOF cornerback.. They changed the rules because of him so the cornerback cannot hit the receiver in the first five yards. Mel runs a home/ranch for troubled boys, and all the Steelers do a fundraiser every year for the home.
Bennie Cunningham and Randy Grossman were the TE's.
The Steelers from 1974 to 1980 won four of the six super bowls, with basically the same starting lineup you listed. Rocky Bleier injured his foot in Vietnam, returned and practiced on the taxi squad for two years before winning a starting job.
I think the 1976 team had a better defense but did not make it to the SB. Bradshaw missed 6 games due to an injury, and the Steelers won all of them, with four or five shutouts during Bradshaw's absence. But during the first playoff game, Franco and Rocky were injured, and we had only one running back for the next playoff game and lost.
The two super bowls against the Cowboys were the best. You had Randy White, Too Tall, Dorsett, Drew Pearson, and Staubach was a great QB, and if Jackie Smith catches the ball in the end zone, you guys would have won.
The Cowboys mistreated Tom Landry when Jerry Jones bought the team. Landry was a great coach, a fighter pilot in WW II, I believe.
Mike Webster died a young tragic death, had dementia, and other problems. Dwight White also died young.
Pete| 1.14.13 @ 10:43AM
No team is going to get a fair shake from the refs in Foxboro...yesterday's game was just the latest example. Kraft got Goodell his job and owns him. It is amusing, however, that Brady (and his illegitimate child) cannot claim to have won a Super Bowl since the cheating was caught, a trend I'd love to see continue.
Frank Drackman| 1.14.13 @ 11:08AM
"Cheating"??? down South we have a sayin,
"Old enough to bleed, old enough, to ....
OK that was disgusting,
Not as disgusting as you bringing a 3 year old child into the "Discussion" about a Stupid Football Game, it's not like it was something important,
LIKE COLLEGE FOOTBALL WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
and the saying I was getting to is"If you ain't cheatin' you ain't tryin"
Did we give Bin Laden 10 points and the football? Did Sherman give Lee a Do-Over??
and y'all are just jealous you aren't havin sex with Giselle....
Frank
Jacob Dolson Cox| 1.14.13 @ 7:33PM
You must have been watching a different game than I was, Pete. I am a ten-year Houston Texans fan—I bleed battle red—and I’d sure like to moan and groan about Brady and the Patriots getting every break from the refs. That’s not what happened yesterday, though. Did you see the TD awarded to DeVier Posey? Or the TD awarded to Arian Foster? Borderline calls, both of them—and both of the calls went to the Texans.
The Texans were one of the five best teams in the NFL this season, with a monster pass rush from J.J. Watt, Antonio Smith, Connor Barwin, and Whitney Mercilus, and yet Brady made them look mediocre. No one has a faster release; no one makes more accurate reads; no one is better at sizing up the opposition and systematically dismantling it.
The nasty ad hominem remarks about Brady and his wife are the symptoms of a mind disordered by envy. I hate Tom Brady because my team can’t seem to beat him, but for no other reason.
Pete| 1.14.13 @ 7:48PM
Since it has only been 10 years and those two teams haven't played often in meaningful situations, perhaps you can be excused for your naivete. The two calls you cite were when the game was out of hand...this is an old trick of Goodell's zebra goon squad so as not to be quite so obvious. In addition, those two calls relied on technology and were proven true, or in the case of the Foster TD, inconclusive so as not to overturn. Go watch the game again and pay special attention to the calls/no calls when the game was close. Two that come to mind for me are Hernandez trucking his DB before catching a 35yd gain that extended the first drive of the second half (he was called for the same later in the game...when it was out of reach) and of course the 3rd down stop late in the game negated by the "hold" on Welker which should have been a picked up PI flag since the ball was in the air and the pass tipped.
As for Brady himself, what annoys me is the way the northeast media bows before him when he hasn't won a SB since his team was caught cheating. They also treat him like a celebrity, and as such it is appropriate to point out that he behaves like one. Not enough people know that he fathered a child out of wedlock and then left the mother for a supermodel.
davelnaf| 1.14.13 @ 10:57AM
If they get past Baltimore they'll likely lose the Super Bowl game.
Joe D.| 1.14.13 @ 11:44AM
The shine never should have been put on him and his cheating coach. The stole there first win from Oakland. The cheated there way to victory with Pittsburgh and St. Louis (spying). So if you take the shine off there cheating (I am sure other games as well). What do you have. Not as successful of a coach and QB. So stop giving us brady.
OP4| 1.14.13 @ 12:56PM
Wahhh! Waahhh! Waaaaaaah!
Frank Drackman| 1.14.13 @ 1:44PM
One man's "Cheating" is another man's "taking every advantage you can get"...
OK, I used to pitch, in High School, when the game was already out of hand(no "Mercy" rule back then)so our "Good' pitchers wouldn't get overworked(we DID have innings restrictions :).
Occasionally, when I needed an extra foot on my fastball, I'd pitch from 1 foot infront of the pitching rubber, you can't do it too often, and you gotta just act like your in the right spot or they'll catch you.
And that extra foot was enough for a few strikeouts I wouldn't have gotten otherwhise.
You know who taught me that trick???
Hall of Fame Pitcher Nolan Ryan.
Not in person, but deep in the Archives of KTLA News, from 1974 or 75' there was a 3 minute piece where "The Express" showed exactly that trick....
OH THE HUMANITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Frank "Lefty" Drackman
Occam's Tool| 1.14.13 @ 2:18PM
Hey, I'm just happy the Packers got FUDGE Packed, to show Jack in Wi. how to receive it better. (And Mike W, and Arnie, and all the little Ronulans out there.)
I cheerfully defer to my colleagues as to who will win it all, 'cause I don't care, nor will I be watching.
Frank Drackman| 1.14.13 @ 3:21PM
Another of the "I don't watch" Ill-uminati...
So what DO you do on fall Sunday Afternoons?
C-Span? NPR? Jerk Off??
Me to, I mean that Terry Gross is so hot...
Frank
Bob Grant| 1.14.13 @ 4:31PM
Another Penis-in-Hand reference. There's definitely a pattern...
Frank Drackman| 1.14.13 @ 4:37PM
Another Penis-in-Mouth reference....
Occam's Tool| 1.14.13 @ 9:44PM
Continuing Medical Education, (I do about 150-200 hours/yr) playing with my kids, sleeping, watching MST3K videos with my wife, playing videogames with my kid, reading novels and history, looking over my gold and silver collection, reviewing my next dividend stocks to buy...
I have grown less interested in the National Felons' League, and Lovie Smith of my hometown Chicago Bears supported Obama and deserved to get fired....
Terry Gross got punked by the best Israeli rocker of all time, the Lead Singer for KISS. I never listen to NPR.
Occam's Tool| 1.14.13 @ 9:46PM
It is worth listening to the Gene Simmons/Terry Gross interview.
Occam's Tool| 1.14.13 @ 9:52PM
"A combative Gene Simmons got Gross on the defensive with his low-key hostility and tried to keep her off-balance throughout the interview. "(NNDB)
Look up Terry on the Internet and Gene pops up. American Jew of indeterminite sexuality and Libtard tendencies goes up against uber-capitalist ultra-combative Israeli Alpha male. Who wins?
PetePatriot| 1.14.13 @ 4:05PM
The pathetic refrains on display here are identical to the whines I hear on the occasions when it is necessary to watch my Patriots at a sports bar. After a thorough thrashing, the opposing teams' fans call Brady all kinds of names including calling him gay. Not that there is anything wrong with it, but I should think that your team being beaten by a gay QB would be even more dispiriting.
At any rate, it is obvious you haven't read Cyrano de Bergerac. If you are going to revile Brady, you could at least come up with something either amusing or original. Repeating the same old banalities is just so...banal.
No doubt rooting for a perennial loser is hard, but refusing to acknowledge obvious greatness is the mark of a small man. Belichick has molded a team without the benefit of top draft picks. The Niners have had a slew of high drat picks and a #1 overall pick sitting on the bench. They also drafted QB Giovanni Carmazzi 65th in the 2000 draft when they could have had Tom Brady. That has to hurt.
Lastly, the Niners would have had a chance to beat the Patriots in last year's Superbowl if they could field punts. That must have really hurt.
Haters gonna hate.
Frank Drackman| 1.14.13 @ 4:36PM
Hate to ruin y'all(yeah I said Y'all)'s Superbowl plans, but it's gonna be a battle of the Birds....
And would a Raven stand a chance against a Falcon? only reason they get any Pub at all is that stupid Edgar Poe Story...
Frank
PetePatriot| 1.14.13 @ 5:39PM
The wise guys don't think much of your crystal ball. The current odds for winning the Superbowl are as follows:
Patriots: 1/1
49ers: 2/1
Falcons: 11/2
Ravens: 15/2
It is not impossible, but a Falcons/Ravens Superbowl is the least likely outcome.
Vance P. Frickey| 1.15.13 @ 2:06AM
Nate Silver stumbled against the ruling paradigm of the NFL - "On any given Sunday, any team can beat any other team." A friend of mine pointed out that Super Bowls have been dominated by teams in the wild card slots in both leagues, so prognostication is a risky, risky game to play. He should have known better.
I should have known better than to predict to my Facebook friends that the Broncos would be in New Orleans this year, so I'm just as foolish as Mr. Silver.
squalis| 4.3.13 @ 9:38AM
Sorry, the moniker "Tom Terrific" is reserved for Mr. George Seaver.