OT: ESPN predicts Lions to win Super Bowl in 2040
ESPN predicts the 25 SB winners. Some pretty funny ones in here.
Nearly a quarter-century after retiring in his prime, Hall of Fame wide receiver Calvin Johnson returns to Detroit for the opportunity to team up with quarterback Chosen Newton and head coach Jay Harbaugh. Newton and Johnson connect for two touchdowns, and Barry Sanders III adds two more scores to lift the Lions to their first championship in 82½ years. The HGH-fueled Rolling Stones receive a standing ovation after a spirited, three-hour halftime performance
Also to note- They predict Alabama wins a SB before the Lions.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14747408/super-bowl-50-history-why-no…
February 10th, 2016 at 11:45 AM ^
Man, I'd better buy season tickets now. Gotta make sure I still have my seats when the big year arrives.
February 10th, 2016 at 12:03 PM ^
By 2040, I expect that the Ford's will have sold the franchise to Pfizer, who will have relocated to Havana and renamed it "the Iguanas."
February 10th, 2016 at 12:22 PM ^
The only glitch in your plan - didn't Pfizer recently propose to merge with an Ireland-based company? Replace "Havana" with "Dublin" and "Iguanas" with "Leprechauns" and I think you have a viable scenario.
February 10th, 2016 at 4:53 PM ^
That's a tax-evading maneuver. Pfizer isn't going anywhere.
February 10th, 2016 at 2:05 PM ^
February 10th, 2016 at 11:47 AM ^
the analysis to say football was outlawed in 2039, but the NFL had athletes still under contract play other types of (non-violent) games for 2040, which led to the Lions winning the Super Bowl....playing a high-stakes game of Go Fish against the Browns.
February 10th, 2016 at 11:50 AM ^
I expected them to say that they meant 2040 in the Islamic calendar (where it's currently 1437). That seems plausible.
February 10th, 2016 at 11:48 AM ^
What they don't note is that in 2039 the NFL renames the big game to the "Mega Bowl" and the winner of the first round wild card game is dubbed the "Super Bowl Champions"
February 10th, 2016 at 11:48 AM ^
Why so optimistic?
February 10th, 2016 at 11:50 AM ^
February 10th, 2016 at 11:52 AM ^
Phil Simms will still be jerking off Peyton Manning in 2040.
February 10th, 2016 at 12:00 PM ^
Should it be sponsored by Cialis?
*In Nationwide jingle tone* "Cialis makes my dick so hard."
Yeah, it works.
February 10th, 2016 at 11:51 AM ^
February 10th, 2016 at 11:53 AM ^
February 10th, 2016 at 11:53 AM ^
From the description of Detroit's impending loss to Indianapolis:
"Andrew Luck throws for 331 yards and three touchdowns, silencing critics who said the crafty veteran couldn't win the big one. Barry Sanders Jr. rushes for 152 yards and puts Detroit ahead midway through the fourth quarter on his second touchdown run of the game. But Indianapolis takes the lead for good on a 15-yard touchdown reception by tight end Tim Tebow with 3:16 remaining. "
Most Lions way to end a Super Bowl ever.....in the future. I'd still go, and you would hope that if nothing else, Tim Teow did indeed learn his place in the league if he wanted to be in the league at all by then, but I am now anticipating future disappointment in 2024 all the same.
February 10th, 2016 at 11:55 AM ^
February 10th, 2016 at 3:52 PM ^
Dead. I'll be 81. You must be old.
February 10th, 2016 at 11:56 AM ^
Decades of global warming culminate in a Super Bowl-record kickoff temperature of 125 degrees, prompting critics to insist the game can no longer be safely contested outdoors -- even along the temperate Great Lakes Riviera.
This would work out great for me. I'll be close to retirement age, and I really hate Florida.
/also LSU wins one before the Lions
February 10th, 2016 at 12:48 PM ^
That can't be right, because after the Lions win the Super Bowl in 2040 hell will freeze over and plunge the earth into an extended Ice Age.
February 10th, 2016 at 11:58 AM ^
ESPN original content is amazing now ...
February 10th, 2016 at 11:59 AM ^
I don't believe it. If a Detroit franchise wins the Super Bowl it will be an expansion franchise replacing the Lions after they move to St. Louis/London/Mexico City.
February 10th, 2016 at 12:01 PM ^
SF winning next year was a sign of what was to come.It was pretty funny overall, with some nice details thrown in.
February 10th, 2016 at 12:01 PM ^
2040 seems really too tight a time line. :)
2057 seems more likely.
February 10th, 2016 at 12:02 PM ^
February 10th, 2016 at 12:01 PM ^
February 10th, 2016 at 12:18 PM ^
This prognostication for the Lions is a bit over-optimistic.
February 10th, 2016 at 12:23 PM ^
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February 10th, 2016 at 12:25 PM ^
...that the real Mayan calendar predicts that the world will end on November 2, 2039.
February 10th, 2016 at 12:29 PM ^
And where does ESPN predict itself in 2040?
February 10th, 2016 at 12:30 PM ^
sell the team in 2039. Then, I think there will be a huge backlog of pent up Super Bowl wins for the Lions.
February 10th, 2016 at 12:33 PM ^
nothing is funny.
February 10th, 2016 at 12:35 PM ^
February 10th, 2016 at 12:39 PM ^
Really wasn't expecting that from ESPN.
February 10th, 2016 at 12:43 PM ^
Most useless article ESPN has put out in a while. And that's saying something.
February 10th, 2016 at 3:19 PM ^
February 10th, 2016 at 3:21 PM ^
Wrong reply meant this for the one above who asked where does ESPN see itself in 2040?
February 10th, 2016 at 1:05 PM ^
February 10th, 2016 at 2:11 PM ^
Just watch how dumb ESPN will feel when Detroit wins the title in 2036!
February 10th, 2016 at 2:37 PM ^
football will be played by huge animatronic cyborg avatars controlled remotely by their handlers—tiny, pale, eyeless sluglike creatures with gigantic heads, floating in vats.
February 10th, 2016 at 3:18 PM ^
Shouldn't the joke be on Cleveland these days?
February 10th, 2016 at 4:35 PM ^