I haven't read Gregg Easterbrook's ESPN column all year- I like the Jamboroo a lot more- but I'm glad I didn't miss his annual bad-predictions column. Keep this in mind next time you see people pontificating on any NFL show:
Let's turn to the incredible celebrity ring-up conducted annually by David Nielsen of Scripps-Howard News Service. For 20 years, Nielsen and his colleagues have called celebrities the week before the Super Bowl to ask their exact final score predictions. So far he has collected 1,741 final score predictions, and two have been correct: Martina Navratilova predicted Denver 31, Green Bay 24 in 1998 and tough-guy actor Dennis Farina predicted New England 24, Philadelphia 21 in 2005.Of everyone in the world, it's Dennis Farina. Fuck you, fuckball.
The Brett Favre part is priceless too. For someone so close to the QB, Peter King was wrong just about every step of the way.
Posted by Stephen Silver at February 11, 2009 12:22 AM