In the history of bad predictions, a few stand out. There’s everybody who has said every year in the past five years that Brett Favre will retire. Then there’s Alex Marvez, of Fox Sports, who predicted before last season that the Steelers would be the “most over-rated” team in the NFL while Detroit will be the “most under-rated” team (holy yin and yang). And then there’s Matt Hasselbeck, who before the 2007 NFC Championship Game at Lambeau Field, won the overtime coin-toss and fatefully said, “We want the ball, and we’re gonna score!” Well, we know how that played out. Hasselbeck’s first throw went for a touchdown… to Green Bay. Game, Set, Match, Season.
In the history of retribution, this has got to rank #1:
Hasselbeck has never been short on confidence and guts. At his freshman orientation at Boston College, he (the son of strict, Christian parents and not much of a partier in high school) trained his eyes and interest on the most attractive girl in the group, sat next to her and copied her class schedule verbatim (one that included calculus, philosophy and accounting), and wound up wedding… and bedding… her. We’re not sure in what order.
