{"id":3742,"date":"2009-02-02T09:24:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T09:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3742"},"modified":"2025-09-26T03:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:11:16","slug":"the-madden-09-super-bowl-simulator-nailled-the-suer-bowl-results-almost-perfectly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3742","title":{"rendered":"The Madden &#8217;09 &#8220;Super Bowl Simulator&#8221; nailed the Super Bowl result almost perfectly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I guess there&#39;s something to those video games. I posted about this the day before the Super Bowl here &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2009\/01\/tomorrows-super-bowl.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">Tom Faranda&#39;s Folly: Tomorrow&#39;s Super Bowl<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and&#0160;this was the prediction:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p>According to the award-winning video game, the Pittsburgh Steelers will win an unprecedented sixth Super Bowl title in a tightly contested game against the Arizona Cardinals, by a final score of 28-24. Holding off a fourth-quarter comeback by the Cardinals &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#39;s very, very&#0160;close to what happened, with the Cardinal&#39;s rallying to score 16 points in the last seven minutes, before the Steelers scored a TD with 35 seconds to go in the game. Final score: Steelers win, 27-23. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I guess there&#39;s something to those video games. I posted about this the day before the Super Bowl here &#8211; Tom Faranda&#39;s Folly: Tomorrow&#39;s Super Bowl and&#0160;this was the prediction: According to the award-winning video game, the Pittsburgh Steelers will win an unprecedented sixth Super Bowl title in a tightly contested game against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9183,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions\/9183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}