18th Annual Super Bowl Early Picks Thread

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Sorry for the delay folks, but 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: AlsoNamedBort
Year 11: Jahiegel
Year 12: borschevsky
Year 13: Oakminster
Year 14: borschevsky
Year 15: phungi
Year 16: ElvisL1ves
Year 17: muldoonthief

It’s simple to play – just post your pick for the two Super Bowl teams, and the final score. Deadline for submissions will be 1:00 pm Eastern on Saturday, January 9th (just before kickoff of the first playoff game).

My Prediction:
Bears 27, Bills 24

(I am not going to win but I can’t predict against my Bears)

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:
Chiefs, Bills, Steelers, Titans, Ravens, Browns, Colts

NFC Teams:
Packers, Saints, Seahawks, Football Team, Buccaneers, Rams, Bears

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Football Team 20, Steelers 17

In my dreams.

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I’d love to be a homer and call for Seattle to win but I’ll go with my gut and say Buffalo 40, Green Bay 24.

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Every year I vote my heart. (I don’t expect to win)

Seahawks 28
Chiefs 24

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Bills 34, Saints 27

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I’m not going to offer a prediction, but I hope like hell Football Team is in the Super Bowl just for the lulz of their name. Even better if they can win it.

All I can think of when I see that name is the “generics” craze from the late 1970s grocery biz:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=isch&q=generic+beer

Their team logo totally ought to be a UPC symbol.

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Packers 33, Bills 23.

Unlikely, but I’d like to see Rodgers get one more before he rides into the sunset.

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Buccaneers 34, Chiefs 30

If I can’t pick the Pats I can still pick Brady.

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Chiefs 38, Packers 28

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I don’t want to do it, but I’m going to do it.

Bills 34, Packers 20

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Bills 31, Buccaneers 21

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Saints 30 Chiefs 27

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Packers 31 Chiefs 30

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My Prediction:
Cheifs 27, Packers 24

This year has been weird but I don’t see anyone but the cheifs winning I’ve got no idea who they’ll play and the cheifs haven’t been good the last couple of weeks so I think the score is a crap shoot too.

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Looks like somebody needs to fix his spell-checker. :wink:

Then again, Kansas (and Missouri) have long had issues with edumacation. So maybe “Cheifs” is how the locals spell it.

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Could be worse… :smiley:
1997 - Commercial - Snickers (Who are the Chefs) - YouTube

My pick:
Saints 34, Chiefs 27

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Football Team 31 Chiefs 10

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Hell why not? If I’m right, I’ll be the only one with this pick.

Browns 31, Packers 28

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Buccaneers 34, Steelers 28

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Chiefs 33, Saints 26