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It’s not just another prop bet, some folks actually await with baited breath to find out U.S. President Barack Obama’s Super Bowl pick. Some online sites were initially offering the President’s pick with New England at -140. This could have sentimental rationale as a result of the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon in 2013.
It may be more about fading his picks as last year’s attempt to predict the final score backfired.
"I can’t make a prediction, I don’t know," Obama told Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly. "These guys are too evenly matched. I think it’s going to be 24-21. I don’t know who is going to be 24, and who is going to be 21."
The score last year didn’t exactly end up being 24-21. Try 43-8.
But for those of you looking to fade the President’s picks, consider that the last true Super Bowl pick he made on a winning side was in 2010 when he correctly predicted the New Orleans Saints to win. That, however, was more of a politically correct sentimental pick following the devastation brought to New Orleans just years before with Hurricane Katrina.
In recent years, the President has backed away from offering his pick on which team will win and that trend continues.
"I am not taking sides on that one," Obama told Congressional Democrats in Philadelphia this weekend.
- Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com
