14th Annual SDMB Early Super Bowl Pick Contest

It’s that time of year again! The playoff teams are set, so it’s time for our annual contest – can you predict the Super Bowl a month before the game and join our list of champions?:

Year 1: Trillionaire
Year 2: Uncommon Sense
Year 3: Airman Doors, USAF
Year 4: Grits and Hard Toast
Year 5: Hal Briston (woohoo!)
Year 6: dalej42
Year 7: Justin_Bailey
Year 8: Hamlet
Year 9: Hal Briston (woohoo again!)
Year 10: enalzi
Year 11: Jahiegel
Year 12: borschevsky
Year 13: Oakminster

It’s simple to play – just post your pick for the two Super Bowl teams, and the final score. Deadline for submissions will be 4:00 pm Eastern on Saturday, January 7th (just before kickoff of the first playoff game).

As for my prediction: Oh baby…time for my third title! As it turns out, the Giants didn’t actually blow their “every four years” pattern, they just sort of…delayed it by a year. In any case, I’m going with the pick that has given me my two previous titles in this game:
Giants 38, Patriots 35
(I actually don’t think it will be nearly that high of a score, but that exact pick has worked for me twice before, so who am I to fuck with fate?)

PLEASE NOTE: It’s not an absolute requirement, but it’s very helpful to me if you format your pick the same way I did above – “Winning team name and score, losing team name and score”, on its own line. No locations, just the name. Feel free to add any other commentary on a separate line. Thanks!


As always, just in case you don’t follow football but still wanna play along, just pick an AFC team, an NFC team, and a couple of numbers that sound vaguely football-scorish.

AFC Teams:
New England Patriots, Kansas City Chiefs, Miami Dolphins, Houston Texans, Oakland Raiders, Pittsburgh Steelers

NFC Teams:
Dallas Cowboys, Atlanta Falcons, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, New York Giants, Seattle Seahawks

Patriots 35, Cowboys 24

Cowboys 31, Raiders 28

Packers 34, Raiders 27

Patriots 38, Cowboys 21

Falcons 38, Patriots 31

Patriots 38, Packers 16

Patriots 37, Cowboys 26

Falcons 31, Chiefs 14

Patriots 38, Packers 27

Chiefs 21, Falcons 9

Patriots 24, Cowboys 21

Patriots 31, Falcons 27

Chiefs 28, Packers 24

Potentially some good sleeper picks right there.

Patriots 30 Giants 21

Patriots 37 Packers 34

Chiefs 31, Cowboys 17

Patriots 27, Falcons 20

Patriots 24, Cowboys 17