Predictions are for morons

Following the world of sports you learn one thing, never predict anything, because when you do, you'll be wrong roughly 100% of the time and everyone will laugh at your stupidity.

Take Sherdog for example, who had their picks on the three big UFC fights on the last card, and predicted victories by Wanderlei Silva, Big Nog, and Forrest Griffin. They went so far as to predict Silva would win in highlight reel fashion, allowing us to study 'blunt force trauma'. They amazingly enough went 0-3 on the night

This takes us to the NFL, where our weekend of football action just concluded and we have the absurdly arrogent Cold Hard Football Facts, who if you head over to their site, will show you a post stating the based on the Cold Hard Football Facts Quality Win stat, the Colts were headed for their second Super Bowl championship. After their loss to the Chargers on Saturday the same Cold Hard Football Facts began their standard, merciless burying of the Colts, declaring the loss to be the 'same old song and dance', declaring 'victory' in that an Indy pundit agreed that the Colts were a 'paper tiger'. It is pretty amazing how one can stop on a dime and browbeat the very team that you said looked good to win it all.

Then again the staff at CHFF are a bunch of neo-con troglodytes who deny global warming, love George W Bush and the war in Iraq, and spent an entire post condemning the BCS in college football as 'socialism' that was really awful and crummy, but of course, given their blind obedience to their ideology, they could not bring up the fact that President Elect-Barack Obama is against the BCS at all, and that this has been a story that's generated a lot of news, because Obama's an evil commie pinko Democrat. You would think the CHFF could find common ground with Obama on this issue, you would be wrong.

Last on our last is Bill Simmons, America's hero, who had spent the whole season just hoping to get the bungling Tavaris Jackson into the playoffs, then had him make it, which normally would mean you would expect Bill to go off to Vegas to get his money in ASAP against Jackson. I know I did, rushing off to Leroy's and getting my bet in before the line moved, which Vegas fought tooth and nail to do, instead charging progressively worse and worse odds while keeping Philly a 3 point favorite (MGM broke down and moved the line to 4 by kick off)

Of course Bill didn't do this, he instead was so horrified that America had followed his advice and was shoveling money hand over fist against the Vikings made it such that Bill had to find the 'error' in America's judgement, the grand flaw in betting against Brad Childress and Tavaris Jackson, and so he did all he could and finally managed to reason his way into backing the Vikings to win the game. Hell he even predicted the Vikings in a bit of a blowout (Vikings 27, Eagles 16)

How it turned out? Tavaris threw a TAINT as Bill would call it, but beyond that had a solid first half, then completely and totally fell apart in the second half, and the Eagles cruised to a 26-14 win.

Bill used to be known as "BSG" for Boston Sports Guy...He should now be known as "IBT" I Bet Tavaris.