Feb 3, 2010
Since 2004, EA Sports has been using their latest version of the Madden football software to predict the winner of the year’s super bowl. Only once has it been wrong, in 2008 when the Giants beat the Patriots 17-14. The simulation returned to form the following year, with the score of the Steelers/Cardinals game being only one point off from the simulation on both sides of the ball.
This year, Madden puts the Saints up over the Colts with a score of 35-31, earning the Saints their first ever Super Bowl win and Drew Brees as MVP. Add this to the long list of prognosticators picking the Saints and it seems like Madden might well have another quality pick on its hands. Here’re the highlights from the simulation from EA Sports:
“The first three quarters display the offensive fireworks that both teams have become known for, with the Colts leading 24-21. A nail biting fourth quarter begins with a big play, courtesy of the Saints’ special teams, when Reggie Bush returns a punt for a 42-yard touchdown. However, with minutes left in the game the duo of Joseph Addai and Peyton Manning put the Colts back on top with a go-ahead touchdown pass. With the game hanging in the balance, Drew Brees hits David Thomas for an 11-yard touchdown and the game winning score.”
Come Sunday, we’ll see just how accurate that is!
i hope it's a good game and i wouldn't mind seeing the saints win, although manning's excellence at modern football is one i'd also like to see jammed home with a super bowl win. i just want a good game. i'm out of the newspaper contest, so it's just fun to watch now.
Did ya'll see the bruises Favre showed off the day after the game last week? Yeah - he got his ass beat bad. And the massive bruise on his thigh/hamstring kinda shows why he didn't run that last play.
That said - I do hope the Saints win. I always enjoy when a team that never reached the Superbowl gets the win.
who dat
the reason favre didn't run is because he's only too chickent o do one thing on this earth, and it's scramble.
All I know is, all of our employees at work think they are getting this Sunday off. They are wrong.
Because I don't give a shit about the Superbowl!
For one glorious weekend day out of the whole year, the streets, parks, and businesses of San Francisco are almost entirely abandoned, and a man who hates crowds is free to go the places in the city that are almost always uncomfortably full and enjoy downright solitude.
It's true in some places more than others -- I found out last year that the hippies of Golden Gate Park are still very much out in force, they apparently don't care much about football either -- but it's still a fun novelty.
the superbowl is usually not a very good football game and is generally popular just because of hype, so often it's one sided or just boring
this year should be a pretty good game though
sometimes good commercials come out, and I watch those on youtube...