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Cake day: October 19th, 2023

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  • Totally random, but I always blamed the Pro Bowl switch for that 2009 Super Bowl loss.

    That was the first year the NFL switched the Pro Bowl from the week after the SB, to the week before. And for that first year, players from the SB winning team still had to appear in Hawaii for media and stuff. (which isn’t the case anymore, that was the ONLY year).

    We had players in the Pro Bowl (Peyton, the most obvious) so I felt like that was a distraction for them. If you give Peyton extra time to prepare for the Saints instead of doing pointless Pro Bowl media, I think we beat the Saints.

    In all likelihood, it probably had negligible effects on the outcome (as the Saints had players in Hawaii too), but I ALWAYS think about how things could have been different without this.