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12-15-2006, 01:52 PM
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best sports prediction of all-time
gotta be sportscaster Paul McGuire predicting the then-best team in the NFL - the streaking 10-1 NY Jets - wouldn't win another game the rest of the 1986 season. They didn't, and finished 10-6, limping into the playoffs, where they lost to the Browns.
I remember McGuire stating his case on one of the Sunday pre-game shows and everybody laughed at him. But he stood by his prediction and was proven right. Pretty amazing. Can anybody beat that? 
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12-15-2006, 01:56 PM
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Re: best sports prediction of all-time
I want you to watch this here. Do you see this team losing its last five games? Watch this, here it comes.... and.... BOOM.
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12-15-2006, 02:01 PM
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Re: best sports prediction of all-time
Phil Mickelson, as I recall, wagered something like $10,000 that the San Diego Chargers would make it to the Super Bowl before the season started. And they did, and he got something like 28-1.
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12-15-2006, 02:04 PM
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Re: best sports prediction of all-time
I can't remember who it was but another golfer correctly predicted who would win, I think, the World Series two years in a row something like five years ago.
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12-15-2006, 02:05 PM
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Re: best sports prediction of all-time
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I can't remember who it was but another golfer correctly predicted who would win, I think, the World Series two years in a row something like five years ago. [/ QUOTE ] Mickelson again, I think...I'm not sure if wagers are really predictions....
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12-15-2006, 02:39 PM
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Re: best sports prediction of all-time
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Joe Namath's "guarantee". [/ QUOTE ] Joe Namath's guarantee wasn't as extraordinary as reported. He has commented on this in the past and again just recently on 60 minutes. What happened was that the reporters were dogging him aboout the Jets being such big underdogs and after repeatedly asking him if he really thought the Jets had a chance, he said the Jets would win and then he was asked if he guaranteed it and he said yes I guarantee we will win. So, in context, it was not a Mohammed Ali type boast but rather more of a defensive reply.
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12-15-2006, 02:43 PM
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Re: best sports prediction of all-time
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[ QUOTE ] Joe Namath's "guarantee". [/ QUOTE ] Joe Namath's guarantee wasn't as extraordinary as reported. He has commented on this in the past and again just recently on 60 minutes. What happened was that the reporters were dogging him aboout the Jets being such big underdogs and after repeatedly asking him if he really thought the Jets had a chance, he said the Jets would win and then he was asked if he guaranteed it and he said yes I guarantee we will win. So, in context, it was not a Mohammed Ali type boast but rather more of a defensive reply. [/ QUOTE ] Besides, what the hell is he supposed to say? I never did see what the big deal about this was - all athletes "predict" they're gonna win on Sunday, you know?
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12-15-2006, 11:18 PM
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Re: best sports prediction of all-time
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Phil Mickelson, as I recall, wagered something like $10,000 that the San Diego Chargers would make it to the Super Bowl before the season started. And they did, and he got something like 28-1. [/ QUOTE ] I made this bet in June, unfortunately for only $100. It was my only future bet that I made that trip. My God the Chargers look good.
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