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Charles Curtis

Why Super Bowl bettors are (erroneously) using ‘The Simpsons’ to bet on the same final Bengals-Rams score, explained

Welcome to FTW Explains, a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. You may have seen some Simpsons memes being thrown around about the Super Bowl and betting and you may be wondering what’s up. We’re here to help.

We are all hopefully familiar with the phenomenon involving The Simpsons predicting future events, from Game of Thrones to curling results and more.

This is a case where the legendary animated series actually didn’t make a correct prediction … but some photoshopping made it seem that way and suddenly, people are betting on it. Let’s dive in.

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