didn’t foretell enough future events, the clairvoyant comedy cartoon is now being credited with predicting the Cincinnati Bengals will beat the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl 2022.
A meme depicting the Matt Groening-created show’s supposed sports forecast racked up nearly 85,000 likes with “Simpsons” fans wondering if they’d done it yet again.“Bet the house on the Bengals,” reads the caption to the allegedly prophetic tweet, which was posted Tuesday by the account “NFL Memes.”Attached are three photos showcasing Simpsonified Bengals cheerleaders, Homer Simpson with “Go Bengals” tattooed on his stomach and a screenshot of one of the show’s satirical sportscasts with the tagline “BENGALS win SUPER BOWL !!
Cin 34 LA 31” superimposed over it.Bet the house on the Bengals. pic.twitter.com/cMxHrSlqsQHowever, as with many so-called “Simpsons” predictions, this one wasn’t exactly ironclad.
For one, the third still was ripped from the 1992 episode “Lisa the Greek,” in which a machine called “Gamble-Tron 2000” predicted that the Bengals would rout the Miami Dolphins by 200 points.
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