Matt Sussman of The Futon Report is predicting that Seattle will beat the Steelers by one point in Super Bowl XL. His basis for this prediction? Quarterbacks whose names have higher Scrabble value are 9-1 in the playoffs so far…
• Byron Leftwich (17) lost to Tom Brady (11)
• Jake Delhomme (16) beat Eli Manning (10)
• Mark Brunell (9) beat Chris Simms (9)
• Ben Roethlisberger (20) beat Jon Kitna (9)
• Matt Hasselbeck (21) beat Brunell (9)
• Jake Plummer (13) beat Brady (11)
• Roethlisberger (20) beat Peyton Manning (10)
• Delhomme (16) beat Rex Grossman (11)
Of course, Roethlisberger (20) beat Plummer (13) and Hasselbeck (21) beat Delhomme (16) in the conference championships. Clearly, the only true way for the Steelers to beat this is to re-acquire Chris Fuamatu-Ma’afala (24) and give him a direct snap to start the game. Or they could, y’know, just play better than Seattle…
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1 peter // Jan 31, 2006 at 9:30 am
If you look hard enough, you can find a statistic that fits any trend you wish. This person obviously spent too much of his stats homework time playing Scrabble.