Predicting the outcome of a sporting event is usually more accurate than weathermen telling you what the weather will be like in 24 hours. Check out this photo from local Fox 5 here in New York. It is a SNOW ALERT and the alert is that there is no snow. Do we really need an alert to tell us that there is no snow? The reason they have to ‘alert’ you to the lack of snow is because they built up your expectations for a snow-mageddon for the last three nights.
All meteorologists really need to do is put up a graph of today’s weather. But instead of that they go on for 7 to 10 minutes about high pressure system coming out of Saskatchewan or what the Doppler 4000 has detected. The reason they throw all this science at you is to try and convince you that they are ‘experts’ and that they know what they are talking about. When the truth is that they only just as accurate as Jimmy The Greek. That being said, I would like to predict that the weather will have an effect on the Super Bowl. Since the most of The East Coast is locked down in a snow drift, I predict that ratings for Super Bowl XLIV will be the highest rated Super Bowl ever. I predict the total number of viewers will eclipse that of the final episode of MASH which was the most watchedTV show ever. Oh, and The Saints over The Colts 27-24.
UPDATE: CBS spokesperson Ed Harrison has confirmed that last night’s Super Bowl has surpassed M*A*S*H as the most-watched TV program in history. An estimated 106.5 million people watched the game, according to Nielsen. I rule.
You really do have the ESP(N)!