Did Fox jinx the Eagles? Super Bowl 57 pregame show unanimously picked Philly over Chiefs

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Did Fox jinx the Eagles? Super Bowl 57 pregame show unanimously picked Philly over Chiefs image

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If you're not superstitious, maybe you're just a little 'stitious. Super Bowl predictions are, generally, a shot in the dark. That doesn't absolve anyone from thinking higher powers are at play when predictions go awry, however.

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Case in point: The entire "NFL on Fox" desk picked the Eagles to beat the Chiefs in Super Bowl 57, something that, obviously, didn't come to pass.

Jimmy Johnson, Michael Strahan, Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long were all in agreement that the Eagles would take the win. Rob Gronkowski and Sean Payton also picked the Eagles.

Bradshaw was unwilling to side with his cohorts prior to the game, but he stuck with the pick.

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"Do you know what that means?” Bradshaw said before making his pick. "If we all pick the same team — I should switch right now and just do it. I’m picking the Eagles but I don’t want to now."

Alas, Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs made the broadcast look like fools, driving his team down the field to give Kansas City a 38-35 lead with eight seconds left in a thriller of a Super Bowl.

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So whether Eagles fans think it's coincidence or happenstance or higher powers at work, maybe they should look to Fox as the first domino to fall in their team's Super Bowl loss.

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Joe Rivera is in his seventh year with The Sporting News, handling NFL, MLB and some things pro wrestling. A proud-ish Rutgers University graduate, Rivera combines a new-school flair with an old-school soul. He loves dingers, wrestling, comic books, movies, music and really bad puns. He is also a card-carrying BBWAA member and teaches Multimedia Sports Reporting at his alma mater.

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