This is what it all comes down to. One game to settle it all. Am I a football picking loser or do I half way know what I’m talking about? The answer is clear but humor me for a few minutes.. I’m 8-2 straight up but only 6-4 against the spread in the NFL playoffs. My two straight up losses were both courtesy of the New York Giants. I picked the G-Men to cover but lose to Dallas and Green Bay.. Keep that in mind.

If you don’t have confidence in my football point spread skills, check out these 32 free Super Bowl picks from other bloggers.. But here’s how I see it:

The New England Patriots are gonna win Super Bowl XLII. They haven’t walked this far to let their dream get away at the last second. Figuring out that the Patriots will win the game is the easy part. The better team wins the Super Bowl 98% (official YBB stat) of the time.. If you’re still reading at this point, you wanna know who’s gonna cover.

The Super Bowl point spread opened with New England as 12-14 point favorites. The line I’m going with has the Patriots -12 over the New York Giants. The Pats have never won a Super Bowl by more than 3 points, so a big victory would be the exclamation point to the greatest season in NFL history. The New York Giants are getting a lot of credit for playing the Patriots tough in the final game of the regular season, and people are saying that New York has gained from playing the Patriots once already. Why hasn’t New England learned anything from that game? It was the Patriots that came into the game physically and mentally tired from carrying the undefeated load. They took the Giants best shot and still won the game. Now they have two weeks to rest and prepare for the one game that puts them in the elite of the elite, and they’re not going to blow it.. Or cover the game.

Prediction: Patriots 35 Giants 24

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