20th Annual Super Bowl Early Picks Thread

Five years in a row, in fact: Buffalo 1991-94, and SF in 95. But I have no idea if he actually made the predictions in those exact years.

Seven years in a row. The 49ers won XXIII and XXIV before the Bills’ four-year run, then won XXIX the year after.

Yes, but I said “in the 90s.” Those earlier wins were in '89 and '90. #hairsplitting

I’m struggling to find exactly what years Berman made his famous predictions, but the Niners SB runs were relevant. And Super Bowl XXIV was played in 1990, so :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:.

It is pretty amazing – regardless of decade or predictions – that two teams played in seven straight Super Bowls without somehow playing each other.

Bills 24 49ers 17

49ers 27 Chiefs 20

If the earlier prediction wins all tiebreakers, then you may want to reconsider your entry.

Oh I missed that:
Bills 24 49ers 20

If Saint_Cad is right, that would be a scorigami alright.

Absolutely. The highest score on record for a football game was when Georgia Tech beat Cumberland 222-0 on October 7, 1916. So it was over a hundred years ago, and Georgia Tech still scored fewer than half the points of that prediction.

Just think that Seattle could score 54 touchdowns, go for the 2 point conversion each time (and succeed), and they’d still only have 432 points. So let’s say that they score 55 touchdowns and successfully convert for 2 points each time, except the last touchdown occurs with no time on the clock and they decide to not bother with the extra points, that would work out to 438 points exactly.

To consider how remarkable that would be, there are 60 minutes of regulation play, so they’d be scoring on average one touchdown for each minute of regulation play.

As far as the NFL goes, the most number of points ever scored by a team was 72, which the Washington Redskins accomplished on November 27, 1966. (They beat the NY Giants 72-41.) It would have been wise to bet the over that day.

The 1940 Bears want a word.

Interesting, none of my Google results came up with that game. But then I realized afterward that for some reason, Google was giving me results only for a regular season game, which is not at all relevant. So weird.

I guess even Google hates the Chicago Bears.

The game you referenced does have the highest combined score in NFL history.

15-yard penalty for piling on!

Almost forgot about this.

Bills 34, Eagles 27

Bills 21 Giants 20

Won/Lost on a last second FG miss

49ers 37 Bills 10

Chiefs 34 Eagles 16

Eagles 28, Bengals 17

One last bump before the game. Get those picks in!