Cat picks Saints to win Super Bowl XLIV
ZUG.com, the Web’s oldest comedy site, is running an experiment in this year's Super Bowl. A common cat is given $50 and firmly instructed to make money for his owner. In the run up to the big game, the tabby tempts fortune on the Women’s Tennis Open, makes money on the stock market, and – after an extreme cage match against Peyton Manning and Drew Brees – bets it all on the Saints. At every step his owner pits the predictive “arts” of humanity against it – dream analysis, fortune-telling, and astrology itself for the main event. Who will win – an animal without a forebrain, or a human choosing not to use his?
With sports, spotted pets and predictive psychic powers, this article will have something for everyone (hopefully including a hundred dollars for the cat.) Combining the target markets of “likes pictures of cats” with “watches the game” it appeals to everyone in the world, unless there’s some new gender we’re not aware of (quite possible these days).
“We love talking about the Super Bowl!” said every sports and news media outlet in the country. Not even when asked for comment, they just keep saying it over and over again this week because – until the game starts – there’s nothing about it that hasn’t been said before a million times. Until the game starts, OR UNTIL NOW! ZUG bravely rescues the entire industry from endless repetition by doing something no one has done in the entire history of the Super Bowl. That something being “Have a feline fling fifty bucks on fortunes back, before starting to lick itself.”
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