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February, 5th 2008

Admittedly, I was ready to gloat. I had bravely called the biggest
sporting upset in a generation or more, right in
the newspaper. And since I am so rarely right when it comes to predictions
— I tabbed Tom Coughlin as the first
coach to be fired in the Post¹s NFL preview section — it was time to take a
walk on the vindicated side.
I hear it's nice.
Until, that is, the discovery that an inordinate number of celebrities —
a word used less discriminately with every
passing year — also predicted that the New York Giants would upset the New
England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII.

See, every year the Scripps Howard news service calls the famous and
semi-famous and not-at-all-famous-in-my-
household people and compiles their predictions. This year, the majority
went with the Patriots, who were 12-point
favourites.

But the following people did not:
Arnold Palmer
Placido Domingo
Serena Williams
The director of the CIA
The professor from Gilligan¹s Island
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Dr. Pat Robertson
A country singer named Dierks Bentley
The reigning Miss USA
The guys who played Uncle Junior, Silvio Dante, and Paulie Walnuts on The
Sopranos
and
Ed Asner, who said of the Giants, "I think they're due," but also called
Tom Brady and the Patriots "the best people in
the world." Thanks, Ed!

Also, Dionne Warwick, Marlee Matlin, two guys who played cops on Law and
Order but neither of them Lenny,
Shaquille O'Neal, Joan Jett, Dolph Lundgren, two out of three NASCAR
drivers, Bill O'Reilly, and the guy who draws
Dilbert.

That is a partial list, and not a particularly distinguished one. So, yeah.
It¹s not like picking the Giants was, uh, hard.

But what a game! It was one of the most exhilarating sporting events in
memory, if you could ignore the pre-snap
reading of the U.S. Declaration of Independence by various NFL
personalities in inspiring American locales.

Though, having Tony Dungy, avowed opponent of gay marriage, read the part
about "all men being created equal"
was a nice touch.

After that, though, the Giants held mighty New England to 14 points, and
the game was decided on the greatest play
any of us will ever see, featuring three severe improbabilities.

First, on 3rd-and-5 with about a minute left, the seemingly weedy Eli
Manning escaped the grasp of at least two
bullying Patriots looking for his lunch money.
Read on here:
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source: nationalpost.com
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