Maybe it’s just me, but I used to remember when it meant something to guarantee a victory in professional sports.
Although I was not alive for it, perhaps Joe Namath’s bold prediction that his New York Jets would beat the heavily favored Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III, is the most well known guarantee.
Honorable mention goes out to Mark Messier for guaranteeing a New York Ranger win in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Final against the New Jersey Devils to not only stave off elimination, but to eventually propel the Rangers to the Stanley Cup Finals.
In today’s look at me era, it seems that every athlete under the sun wants to guarantee a victory at some point during their career.
Sure some big mouth athletes such as Plaxico Burress can get lucky with their predictions. Burress predicted the Giants would beat the Patriots 23-17 in Super Bowl XLII. The Giants in fact won with a score of 17-14.
The most recent Nostradamus is Charlie Alexander Villanueva of the Detroit ...
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Article written by Mike Salvatore