# Superbowl Predictions **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 25, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-predictions/434902 "2008-01-25T01:11:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ShermanAter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ShermanAter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShermanAter)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-predictions/434902/21 "2008-01-25T08:16:58Z")
I put 50 buck on the Giants getting 13 1/2 points. I don’t predict the score but I think the Giants will keep it close. FWIW I’m not a fan of either team but I hate the Patriots and any other team from Boston. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-predictions/434902/22 "2008-01-25T16:09:39Z")
[QUOTE=ShermanAter] FWIW I’m not a fan of either team but I hate the Patriots and any other team from Boston. [/QUOTE] Oderint dum metuant, baby! ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-predictions/434902/23 "2008-01-25T16:13:31Z")
Patriots 41, Giants 6. It’s going to be a slaughter. I’m amazed so many people are picking the Giants. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-predictions/434902/24 "2008-01-25T16:17:17Z")
Patriots 17, Giants 10. My husband and I each have a $20 football square - I don’t know what our numbers are yet. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-predictions/434902/25 "2008-01-25T16:23:03Z")
I would be disappointed if the Pats came this far and fell one game short. They are a better team but in the NFL any team can beat another on any given Sunday. You can not factor luck into predictions,but a tipped ball interception or 2 could change the outcome. Patriots win. 35-21. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-predictions/434902/26 "2008-01-25T16:25:30Z")
Pats 38 Giants 13 ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-predictions/434902/27 "2008-01-25T16:30:30Z")
I think the Pats will win, and I think it’ll be convincing, but it won’t be a blowout. More importantly, I just want it to be a good game. I don’t have any strong feelings for or against either team. I just want the suck-factor to be way low. ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-predictions/434902/28 "2008-01-25T17:48:20Z")
Patriots, 28-24, with a Patriot kneel-down on the Giants’ 30 to end it. ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-predictions/434902/29 "2008-01-26T01:25:29Z")
Tom Brady will become the Michael Jordan of football. Meaning that he’ll be slapped with the label Greatest Of All Time without any discussion whatsoever and lavished with praise everywhere and every one of his failings will be conveniently forgotten\*, along with his teammates. While non-Pats fans all over wonder just what the hell Drew Bledsoe did to generate _this much_ resentment. Someone will trot out the Ewing Theory again, but after what happened to the Falcons this season, it’s just not going to resonate as much. There will be comparisons to the Vikings’ and Bills’ Super Bowls, and there is not a damn thing anyone can do to stop any of it. The word “dynasty” will be trotted out more times than in all of [threekingdoms.com](http://threekingdoms.com)’s message boards put together. There will be a TV special about a middle-America college football team that made an amazingly stupid gamble, the biggest disappointment in Nevada college basketball history, and some college wrestler you’ve never heard of, and this will all be presented as totally relevant to professional football in 2008. There will be a…nay, several raging debates about how incredibly dominant the AFC is and plenty of drama-queen lamentations about how the NFC can’t compete and has become utterly irrelevant, all of it with the subtle yet prevalent assumption that this will never, never, ever change. There _won’t_ be any interviews with any surviving members of the '72 Dolphins. In fact, there won’t be any coverage whatsoever. In fact, Super Bowl security will be ordered to destroy any and all recordings of any comments made by the '72 Dolphins. The myth of a bunch of worthless no-life geezers pathetically clinging to the distant past is a jewel, and we’re not ready to give it up just yet. My sister will get the most incredibly fired up for a Super Bowl since, well, ever. - He threw what _should_ have been the game-breaking interception against San Diego in last year’s divisional playoff and was saved only because the stupid brainless moronic knuckleheaded defender did the absolute worst worst baddest most horrible thing imaginable (fumbled it right back) for no reason whatseover and gave the Pats an utterly undeserved second chance, and _you had to learn this from DK-friggin’-W, for crying out loud??_😃 …Huh? Oh. Patriots win. Never mind by how much. An inch or a mile, they all count the same. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-predictions/434902/30 "2008-01-26T13:43:49Z")
My normal wager is “x.” I’m planning on putting 5x on the over and 2x on the Giants + 12.5. Which pretty much guarantees that the final score will be Pats 35 - 13. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2008, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-predictions/434902/31 "2008-01-26T14:12:00Z")
Pats 31 Giants 17 The last game wasn’t as close as the final score indicated for the reasons Ellis Dee gave. Not only that - but with a recent game played, between Bellichick and Coughlin, who do you think will learn the most from it and make the proper adjustments? The Giants have been playing with heart, though, and deserve credit for what they’ve done, so it won’t be a blowout. But the game probably won’t be in serious doubt in the 4th quarter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superbowl-predictions/434902.md?page=1)