President Obama has stayed out of the Super Bowl prediction game since successfully calling the Steelers' 2008 victory, but in the President's annual pre-Super Bowl interview, Gayle King handed him a piece of paper and got him to reluctantly circle which team he thought would win and put it in a sealed envelope. Here's the segment of the interview (albeit without the tantalizing envelope segment), discussing Barack and Michelle's fascinatingly boring Super Bowl rituals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsGKHD8BP3cThe interview was pretty standard fare—gee, isn't the White House nice, look at all these normal-person snacks we eat—but at the end of the segment, Gayle busted out the aforementioned secret ballot for Obama to circle his chosen winner.
Despite the fact that this decision was supposed to remain on ice until tomorrow, eagle-eyed Internet denizens think they've already sussed out which team logo Obama circled. The Panthers.
https://twitter.com/AConDEMAND/status/696449003777626112Besides that grainy circle under the Carolina logo that may or may not be simply blurry pixels, you can see that the Panthers logo is clearly on the same side of the paper as Obama's pencil in these images captured from the interview:
So, there you have it. In a bold move, President Obama picked the Carolina Panthers based on nothing more than their vastly superior football season. So call Vegas and place your bets if you love Obama, or suddenly develop an irrational hatred of Carolina if you don't. Either way, this is our last year before a new President makes the nation wonder exactly how this became a tradition.
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