Correlation between Super bowl champion's conference and winner of the presidential election

[alp227]

See the list of Super Bowl champions and notice how the Super Bowl has predicted the winner of the presidential election most years since 1980, based on the color codes (Red for AFC and Republican, blue for NFC and Democrat):

1980: Steelers (AFC) win, then Reagan (R) wins
1984: Raiders (AFC), Reagan (R)
1988: Redskins (NFC), GHW Bush (R) (no match)
1992: Redskins (NFC), Clinton (D)
1996: Cowboys (NFC), Clinton (D)
2000: Rams (NFC), GW Bush (R) (no match, and before you bring up Florida, I'm going by whoever was the officially certified winner)
2004: Patriots (AFC), GW Bush (R)
2008: Giants (NFC), Obama (D)

Thus, the Giants winning this year will probably give Obama a greater chance of being re-elected. Of course this isn't scientific rather just an interesting correlation.

[fishwax]

1. well, if you start in the first election cycle with a Super Bowl, it doesn't look as much like

a correlation :

1968: Packers (NFL) win, then Nixon (R) wins
1972: Cowboys (NFC) win, then Nixon wins again
1976: Steelers (AFC) win, then Carter wins

[HuckleB]

2. Shouldn't DU be pro-scientific process?

If so, here's something to ponder:

Correlation is not causation!!!!!

In this case, correlation is just bloody meaningless.

[pepperfoot]

3. really interesting stuff

really cool man

if this turns out to be true i will come back here and be really shocked LOL