Breaking News! Olbermann and O'Reilly Agree on Something

eli_2-4.jpgHey, if the New York Giants and Eli Manning can upset the undefeated New England Patriots and Tom Brady to win the Super Bowl, anything is possible. Scripps Howard compiled their annual list of Super Bowl picks a few weeks ago. Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly were two of the more than 100 respondents, and the duo turned out in complete agreement in correctly predicting the Giants as the victors.

Olbermann picked the score of 27-21, and his reasoning was almost dead on. "Not a lot of people noticed that by December, Eli Manning had already made the first hurdle of greatness: eight fourth-quarter comeback wins in his first four seasons," he said (the Giants won with a fourth-quarter comeback).

O'Reilly had the score at 31-30, and explained his pick in one word: "Destiny."

Olbermann addressed the victory just minutes after the Super Bowl ended.

>Breaking: APNewsAlert,0035 NEW YORK (AP) — Nielsen Media Research says the Giants-Patriots game is the most-watched Super Bowl ever.


Olbermann got self-congratulatory in a blog comment last night on Daily Kos, writing, "Immodest and utterly inappropriate boasting and wrist sprinaige (sic) from patting one's self on the back with both hands aside; more importantly, actual horn-honking, shouting, and on-street revelry in midtown Manhattan at 10:30 on a Sunday Night."

Tennis broadcaster Pam Shriver did not predict the game correctly, but she did write that she was "hoping" for a 17-14 Giants win. Pat Robertson (who knows people) got the closest of all the celebrity picks, going with 20-14 for the Giants.

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