Ten years ago, I had perhaps my best prediction ever.
I've done it again. I've seen the future. I know how Super Bowl 59 will unfold.
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This season has been dominated by two teams of destiny, one in each conference. Two 12-1 teams on the verge of clinching the first round bye and home field advantage, who couldn't be different in how they're winning.
The Kansas City Chiefs are winning ugly and close. After two straight years of winning the Super Bowl, it's almost as if the NFL script writers got bored and desperate. Instead of just having the Chiefs win normal games, someone decided it would be more interesting if every week the Chiefs found a new way to win on a last second play, most of which might happen every couple of years or so in the entire league.
The Likely toe on the game-tying TD
Getting pass interference on 4th and 16
Overtime vs Tampa
Blocked field goal to win
Botched snap by Raiders
Doink and in vs Chargers
Some call it Tayvoodoo. Some call it black magic or dark magic. Some say that the Chiefs have sold their soul to the Devil.
I don't care what you call it. But you'd be a fool to ignore it at this point.
On the other hand, you have the Detroit Lions. They are winning pretty and big. Point differential of +183 through 13 games, best in the league. Next closest is Buffalo at +129. (The Chiefs are down at +56. Which is third in the AFC West behind two teams with only 8 wins.)
Detroit is a breakthrough. Aesthetically pleasing and with the best motivational coach in the league, aggressive and tough. They are looking to go to the Super Bowl for the first time. And they're doing it in style.
These two teams are destined to meet in the Super Bowl this year. And where is it being held? No other city than New Orleans, the epicenter of voodoo magic and the dark arts.
Here's how it will unfold:
We already know it's going to be a close game. The Chiefs don't know how to be in anything else. But every time, it hinges upon a new element. So there won't be any repeats. No toes on the line or botched snaps. No it will be something we haven't seen yet.
I was running though a mental list of possibilities of unusual ways to win...when it hit me. The inverse of what we just saw.
We were given foreshadowing a month ago. Bates, the kicker for Detroit, has a knack of kicking it just inside the uprights.
Here's a composite of two kicks narrowly sneaking by the upright.
So imagine you take a kicker that does THAT, but instead they are kicking in the voodoo capital of the universe against a team that has mastered the dark arts?
The Detroit Lions will lose the Super Bowl by doinking a kick to the Kansas City Chiefs.
You might assume it's a field goal, and it might be. But it came to me in my vision as a doinked extra point. The most aggressive team in the Lions will lose by going for one.
