Super Bowl ICE: The pick...

I usually post this on Sunday, but this is the easiest call I've made in years -- meaning there is a very real non-zero chance this is a sucker bet and this game goes "kayfabe".

There is no doubt in my mind that Seattle is the better team, is considered the better team, and is being bet as the better team.

There is an interesting dichotomy, however, in the betting, according to Yahoo! Sports:  Almost nobody thinks that Seattle is going to win this game within the 4.5 points.  Either Seattle wins by a lot (Seattle backers laying the points) or New England wins outright (most New England backers).

There is one angle, and only one, which has surfaced within the conspiracy circles which would indicate a Seattle win.  It is little secret, now, that the belief (at minimum, though the ownership denies it -- see earlier post) is that, after the Super Bowl, the Seahawks will be put up for sale.  It would be no secret, then, to correctly conclude that the team is in Super Bowl LX to increase it's value on the open market.

That's fine. And, as I'd said for several weeks, the NFC was such a political mess (as in lack of any real political interest in the NFL picking an NFC team win the Super Bowl) that any angle that could be found would be enough basis to push it over the top.

But the additional angle circulating is that the Seahawks are actually going to be force-sold, as their current state as being owned by the late Paul Allen's trust is an illegality within the league.  This is why there were rumors circulating (denied by Roger Goodell) that a $5,000,000 fine had been assessed the franchise because the ownership situation is now illegal.  There must be an individual controlling owner of all NFL teams (with the probable exception of the Packers because of their unique structure, and they grandfathered that in because of the makeup of how the team is controlled in that case).

There is also a potential billion-dollar tax bill the team could be levied at some point.

So, if Seattle does pull it off and especially if the game goes "kayfabe" (Seattle wins at minimum, full kayfabe probably has Seattle covering in a lopsided affair), it almost-certainly indicates that not only is the team going to be sold, it's going to be forced, and they're trying to inflate the value by far more than the billion dollars which would be taxed.

However, the pick is still New England -- and if I had lottery-level money, there would be five digits laid by me on the Patriots in Vegas tomorrow.  And, in picking New England, I'm making three points in support of the Patriots winning, all of which could well be answered tomorrow if Seattle wins:

1) If the ownership situatio‌n in Seattle is, in fact, an illegality:  Why, in the rigged NFL, are the Seahawks in the Super Bowl in the first place?  This would almost be like the 49ers running a salary cap scam under Eddie DeBartolo.  The NFL started an investigation in 1999 against the 49ers for those violations, the team didn't see it's next Super Bowl until the 2012-13 season, and hasn't won one since.  So why would the NFL reward the Seahawks if it was clear their situation is so illegal, the team is going to be sold?

2) I hearken back to the numbers I posted last week about the Patriots:

4-13 the last two years, 16-3 this year -- and all the statistical differences.

There is no natural way, in much of any sports league, you get that level of a reversal, especially with a second-year quarterback.

3) Since the Bad Bunny controversy (from which, again, New England has lost precisely one game since), it is clear this is going to be the most (real-life, not just what I call it within the NFL and rigging) political Super Bowl in a quarter century.  I fully forecast an incident with Bad Bunny somewhere ancillary to the halftime.  I do believe any supposed boycott will have minimal, if any, effect when the numbers come out early next week, unless Bad Bunny is arrested/killed by MAGA/ICE and is not permitted to take the stage at all.

But the fact is there is no way that New England is where they are without the same concept which rigged the other rings for this franchise:  Patriots Are Champions.

It's the same drill the NFL foisted upon us after 9/11, and a good ol' White Boy Quarterback shall lead them.

I don't know if this means Drake Maye gets 4-6 rings or not.  But I do think he gets this one, and I will predict the very same 20-17 score of that fateful rigged Super Bowl XXXVI.  And the same manner of it ending with a field goal at the gun -- whether or not it actually unduly runs out the excess time on the clock.