Ever heard of The Super Bowl Indicator?  For those who haven’t or for those (like me), who need a quick refresher course, here’s how the indicator works (remember, there is little or no science to this at all; it’s just for fun): The Indicator holds that stocks will rise over the coming year if the winning team can trace its roots back to the original National Football League.  Conversely, stocks will fall if that team’s roots are in the old American Football League.  Over the past 42 years, the indicator has a 79% success rate!  Not bad, but far from perfect – most recently it failed to predict the 2001 and 2008 market declines.

So if you’re rooting for a postive year in the stock market (and who isn’t), you’ll be happy to know that both The Arizona Cardinals and The Pittsburg Steelers are from the original National Football League.  Therefore, no matter who wins, The Super Bowl Indicator would say we have a 79% probabilty of an up year in the markets!

yeah, from a gamblers point of view......gotta know when to hold'em and when to fold'em.....I just wish someone would tell that to the auto industry...

Well, the Steelers did win, so it should be a good year.  Either way, it was a good game.  Did you hear about how things are happening in Pittsburgh?  They expect that the children were going to be up partying for the Super Bowl win so long tonight that ALL SCHOOL in Pittsburgh are delayed 2 hours in the morning...maybe for mom and dad to get over the hangovers a little?  Congrats, Pittsburgh, I thought you'd win it in the first place.