"I Am Legend" predicts Super Bowl?

[snopes]

Comment: "I Am Legend", ala "Back to the Future 2", may have predicted
this year's Super Bowl. During the opening news sequence, at one point,
the ticker reads, "Giants lose to Patriots for second time this season 23
to 7". Knowing these two teams are not in the same division, let alone
conference, the only way they could meet twice in a season would be to
play in the regular season and then meet in the Super Bowl. I watched this
movie Saturday night, then lo and behold, on Sunday, both teams advance to
the Super Bowl after having met in week 17 in agame that the Patriots
won...

[snopes]

Of course, no news outlet would headline a Super Bowl result as "Team A beats Team B for second time this season." If it's really a screen shot from the film, I suspect the producers deliberately used the names of two teams who would not ordinarily be playing each other twice.

- snopes

[zman977]

I thought they were talking Baseball at the beginning of the movie, specifically the world series saying New York would play Chicago or L A. Referirng to the Yankees playing the Cubs or the Dodgers. I could be wrong but I thought that is what was said before going to the news segment.

Now I did not see the scroll at the bottom of the screen when I saw the movie but the commentators were talking baseball.

[snopes]

The screen shot shown here doesn't specifically reference football (although it uses the names of two NFL teams), but the 23-7 score pretty much eliminates any other sport. (A baseball contest could end up 23-7, but it would have to be a very unusual game.)

- snopes

[Sister Ray]

Originally Posted by snopes

The screen shot shown here doesn't specifically reference football (although it uses the names of two NFL teams), but the 23-7 score pretty much eliminates any other sport. (A baseball contest could end up 23-7, but it would have to be a very unusual game.)

- snopes

In 1999, the Red Sox beat the Indians in the AL division series by just that score. It's the only time I've seen a score that high on both sides.

Sister "and it was a fun game, too" Ray

This was all over Youtube today. This was from a scene from the 1988 comedy Coming to America where Mr. McDowell and who Eddie portrays discuss about last night's game.



Do you think Eddie Murphy predicted this all to happen twenty years later in 2008?

[zman977]

Originally Posted by snopes

The screen shot shown here doesn't specifically reference football (although it uses the names of two NFL teams), but the 23-7 score pretty much eliminates any other sport. (A baseball contest could end up 23-7, but it would have to be a very unusual game.)- snopes

I know I"m being very nit picky but if they are indeed referencing the NFL teams, which it appears they are given the score. They would not have played each other twice around world series time. They might have played once but they would certainly not have played twice. When the world series starts most teams have barely played there division opponents once so they would not have played a non division opponent twice by the middle of October especially when the Giants and the Patriots are not even in the same conference.

[snopes]

Originally Posted by zman977

I know I"m being very nit picky but if they are indeed referencing the NFL teams, which it appears they are given the score. They would not have played each other twice around world series time.

Umm, that's all irrelevant. The point is that you can't tell for sure from viewing a single frame which sport the score shown refers to -- there's no context to tell you what time of year it is.

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[zman977]

Originally Posted by snopes

Umm, that's all irrelevant. The point is that you can't tell for sure from viewing a single frame which sport the score shown refers to -- there's no context to tell you what time of year it is.- snopes

The sports commentators at the beginning give pretty good context as to what time of year it is. As you said, the 27 to 3 score pretty much rules out any other sport and sense they are using two actual NFL teams in the screen shot it is safe to assume that they are indeed talking about the NFL.

[ParaDiddle]

Just to get you two on the same page, there was both a reference to the World Series and a second meeting between the teams. In other words, you're both right, now quit arguing and (try to) enjoy the movie.

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[zman977]

Originally Posted by ParaDiddle

Just to get you two on the same page, there was both a reference to the World Series and a second meeting between the teams. In other words, you're both right, now quit arguing and (try to) enjoy the movie- P

I had to laugh when I read this post. That sounded just like something my dad would have said YOMANK.

...these two teams, who can play each other twice in a season only if they both get to the Super Bowl, and even then only one year out of four,...

I would like to respectfully point out that there is another possibility that would make a second meeting between two NFL teams of different conferences possible, as well as during the timeframe of the World Series. Two NFL teams could face each other for the second time in, say, October during the NFL regular season, if they have also met in pre-season.

Does anyone know if there is a scheduling rule in the NFL about that? I think the teams have freedom to set (or at least strongly influence) their pre-season schedules independent of normal NFL scheduling rules.

[snopes]

Originally Posted by Doohickie

Two NFL teams could face each other for the second time in, say, October during the NFL regular season, if they have also met in pre-season.

But exhibition games aren't part of the season. They're pre-season.

Yes, technically the playoffs and the Super Bowl aren't part of the season either (they're post-season games), but they're still considered "official" games in a sense that exhibition games aren't.

Think of it this way: If New England doesn't win the Super Bowl, there will be plenty of people who will maintain the Patriots didn't match the '72 Dolphins' achievement of a perfect season, but nobody's claiming the Pats already blew their shot at a perfect season by losing a couple of exhibition games.

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[Artemis]

There are non football teams called the Giants and the Patriots? Color me surprised!

Originally Posted by snopes

But exhibition games aren't part of the season. They're pre-season.

Yes, technically the playoffs and the Super Bowl aren't part of the season either (they're post-season games), but they're still considered "official" games in a sense that exhibition games aren't.

Think of it this way: If New England doesn't win the Super Bowl, there will be plenty of people who will maintain the Patriots didn't match the '72 Dolphins' achievement of a perfect season, but nobody's claiming the Pats already blew their shot at a perfect season by losing a couple of exhibition games.

- snopes

Good points, but either way, the whole thing comes down to trying to fit a real-world event to something in a movie that doesn't quite fit.