Judging from initial predictions I've seen elsewhere, the Patriots and the Packers are once again predominant favorites to play one another in Super Bowl XLVII. It felt like I was oh-so-close last season when I also went with New England to win it all, albeit I had them playing a Saints team that certainly looked like a contender before falling to the upstart Niners in something of an instant classic.
Anyway, my gut tells me that there will almost certainly be a surprise or seven this year. Once again, it appears I will not be participating in a confidence pool, but I will be giving the bro-in-law's fantasy league another whirl. So commentary throughout the season is almost certainly going to be limited to the quarterly updates for a Bears team that many fans in Chicago have some understandably high hopes for.
How high are my hopes for that team? Well, seeing as many of the same predictions I've already seen have effectively declared the Bears to be a Wild Card team, I'm definitely optimistic. I made some improvement in predictions last year, but since I'm saying how other picks look remarkably similar, I'll try to take a chance or two with my own picks—probably not so much with division picks, but more so with playoff games.
Boat with broad, square ends / THU 6-26-25 / Accessory for Broadway's
Phantom / Atmospheric prefix / Brillo competitor / Baby fish with pink,
coho and sockeye varieties / First Holy Roman emperor to be called "the
Great" / Bygone jeans brand whose name means "happiness" in Hebrew / Bell
for the telephone, for one / Eponymous Belgian town / Cocktail of tequila,
lime juice and grapefruit soda / Potato, in Indian cuisine
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