French Seer Picks US Football Winners

 
David Johnson of the Florida Times-Union is a pretty funny guy. In this online article, he runs this week's football picks through the Nostradamus machine to predict the 2009 NFL conference champions, and thereby, the teams going to the Super Bowl. The relevant passage says:
...if you look at his [Nostradamus'] 75th quatrain and tilt it just a little bit to the right, you can clearly see the prophet foretold the rise of Reality TV.So, here are the French prophet’s lost quatrains on the 2009 NFL playoffs that you just won’t find anywhere else:Eagles (11-6-1) at Cardinals (11-7)We should have seen this matchup coming when Nostradamus foretold that a great bird would rise up to vanquish the powers of the East before being challenged by the humble birds of the West. The seer predicted that the humble birds would be a surprise to all, but a western man from the shallow river (loosely translated to Brian Westbrook) would rise up to defeat them. Eagles 32, Cardinals 28.Ravens (13-5) at Steelers (13-4)Nostradamus called this the year of the bird, so we should have put our early money on the Eagles, Cardinals and Ravens. But he also saw that the great armies from the north would clash three times, and that the warriors clad as dark as the night and as bright as the sun (loosely translated to Black and Gold) would triumph every time. Steelers 20, Ravens 17.So, there you have it. Nostradamus predicted an all-Pennsylvania Super Bowl. If his predictions turn out wrong, it’s probably because we didn’t carry the one when calculating out his quatrains. Either way, we’ll look into his mysterious 43rd quatrain in two weeks to see who wins one of the final Super Bowls before the apocalypse.

Not surprisingly, these would have been The Fool's picks as well, although I would have arrived at them using a slightly different method than Nostradamus'
. My particular psychic power involves gazing into a recently flushed toilet bowl and recording the swirling images I see in Esperanto. But whatever method you use, you get the same answer: Eagles beat the Cards, and the Steelers squeak out a win over the Ravens.

My one regret in all this is that the undeserving and cowardly Steelers President Dan Rooney benefits from the Fool's (and David Johnson's) prognostications.

 

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