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Why does everyone have to guarantee victory these days?\u00a0 And, even worse than that, why are they doing it in regular season games?\u00a0 There are two guarantees that are immortalized and fantastic–Joe Namath in Super Bowl III and Moses Malone’s 1983 “Fo’, Fo’, Fo'” prediction–everyone else needs to shut up with the guarantees.<\/p>\n
The beauty of Namath and Malone is that they were big-time players, making big-time predictions for big-time games.\u00a0 Joe Namath, the All-American quarterback, guaranteed victory<\/a> over a vastly superior team in the game of all games.\u00a0 Moses Malone, one of the best players of all-time, guaranteed that not Fast-forward to 2007:\u00a0 I don’t even know who Anthony Smith is, let alone why he is guaranteeing victory<\/a> in a REGULAR SEASON GAME.\u00a0 What I do know is that it really drives me crazy.<\/p>\n \u00a0Thanks for listening, friends…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why does everyone have to guarantee victory these days?\u00a0 And, even worse than that, why are they doing it in regular season games?\u00a0 There are two guarantees that are immortalized and fantastic–Joe Namath in Super Bowl III and Moses Malone’s … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/www.sicollection.com\/assets\/images\/moses_malone_300_2.jpg\")
only would the 1983 Sixers win the championship, but that they would do it with three straight series sweeps (hence, the “Fo’, Fo’, Fo'”), even though that meant sweeping teams with Bird, Magic and Kareem.\u00a0 The best part about these two “recognized” guarantees is that they followed through–basically.\u00a0\u00a0Namath’s Jets (22-point underdogs) defeated the mighty Colts, and Moses’s Sixers won the title (though they did only go 12-1), including a sweep of Magic and Kareem’s legendary Lakers in the Finals.\u00a0 Oh, by the way, Joe Namath was the MVP\u00a0of Super Bowl III, and Moses Malone was the MVP of the 1983 NBA Finals.<\/p>\n