17th Annual Super Bowl Early Picks Thread

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
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
Year 15: ElvisL1ves

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 4th (just before kickoff of the first playoff game).

My Prediction:
Saints 34, Ravens 28
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:
Ravens, Chiefs, Patriots, Texans, Bills, Titans

NFC Teams:
49ers, Packers, Saints, Eagles, Seahawks, Vikings

Also, the tiebreakers:

  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

Ravens 37, 49ers 20

Seahawks 30, Ravens 27
(once again I bet with my heart, not my head)

Thought I would take a stab, though I know little about American football.
New England Patriots 33, New Orleans Saints 27
It’s Agincourt in America!

Chiefs 36 Saints 35

Chiefs 30, 49ers 24

Also betting with the heart, rather than the brain.

Bills 41 Seahawks 10

Ravens 31, Packers 17

Saints 31, Ravens 30

Ravens 42, Saints 34

49ers 31, Ravens 27

Kang (or possibly Kodos) said it best: Good God, is this some kind of joke?

Good luck with that man. Anyway, here’s my pick…

Saints 31, Patriots 24

My Prediction:
49ers 35, Ravens 21

The 9ers look awesome this year and they’ve managed to keep everyone healthy. The niners remind me of the manning/Broncos super bowl team. The ravens are the class of the AFC so I think they’ll have an easier path than the 9ers.

Ravens 27, Saints 24

Chiefs 31 49ers 24

Saints 27, Ravens 23.

Chiefs 38, Packers 27

Ravens 31, 49ers 27

Packers 27, Bills 24