16th Annual Superbowl Early Picks Thread

The Game Room
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I guess I will start this one again. Here are the previous winners.

Year 1: Trillionaire
Year 2: Uncommon Sense
Year 3: Airman Doors, USAF
Year 4: Grits and Hard Toast
Year 5: Hal Briston
Year 6: dalej42
Year 7: Justin_Bailey
Year 8: Hamlet
Year 9: Hal Briston
Year 10: enalzi
Year 11: Jahiegel
Year 12: borschevsky
Year 13: Oakminster
Year 14: borschevsky
Year 15: phungi

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 6th (just before kickoff of the first playoff game).

Format your choices as you like, and I will figure it out. Simple is better.

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:
Baltimore Ravens
New England Patriots
Houston Texans
Kansas City Chiefs
LA Chargers
Indianapolis Colts

NFC Teams:
New Orleans Saints
LA Rams
Chicago Bears
Dallas Cowboys
Seattle Seahawks
Philadelphia Eagles

Note that you should try to pick a unique score: scan the thread to make sure you are not duplicating someone else’s pick, because the game winner would be the first player to make that pick. I will try to keep an eye on things an send a PM when a duplication happens.

All the other tie-breaking rules are the same as in previous years and can be reviewed in previous threads linked above.

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Chiefs 44 Rams 37

3

Rams 48 Chargers 17

4

Saints 23 Patriots 20

5

Saints 34, Chiefs 24

6

Patriots 27 Saints 23

7

Chiefs 41, Saints 38

8

Saints 35 Chiefs 27

9

Texans 13 Bears 6

(note: this is my dream superbowl; it has nothing to do with reality)

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Rams 25 Colts 19

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Cowboys v. Texans, 31-24

The road to the Super Bowl will be I-45.

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Bears 28 Chiefs 24

13

Saints 44, Chiefs 40

“Defense wins championships” my ass.

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Colts 24, Rams 19.

From my lips to God’s ears.

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Chiefs 27 Rams 19

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And yes, I erred by just doing a quick cut and paste: the cutoff time is 1:35 Pacific / 4:35 Eastern on the 5th (not the 6th), when the Colts@Texans game kicks off.

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Saints 35, Chiefs 34

18

Patriots 34 Saints 26

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Eagles 27 Chiefs 21

Just because we’ve argued about it in the past, and the rules underwent some changes over the years, here’s what I believe the final iteration was:

  1. Picked both teams, got winner correct
  2. Picked both teams, got winner wrong
  3. Picked winner correctly
  4. Picked loser correctly
  5. Closest to individual scores
  6. Closest to predicted margin of victory
    Rule 5 used to be “closest to total score”, but that led to the ugly possibility that someone who predicted 60-0 would beat someone who predicted 33-28 if the final score wound up being 33-27.
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Bears 34 Ravens 10