Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for February 11, 2022

Hey Janis. What’s your over/under on the game?

It’s time for the super bowl again?

So, who you picking? I guess we’ll find out the day after the game.

I think in the past she picks the winning team, going by what color uniforms they have that she likes best.

My team is not playing, So I don’t care who wins.

Rams by 10 their defense is just too much for Cincy and my boy Stafford gets to win his first of what will be many superbowls.

He deserves it after rotting here in Detroit for all those years..

Janis has her bookie on speed dial.

Rams are too in your face, Bengals win by 13 points!

One year someone in the office passed out sheets to pick which team who you thought would win from the bottom up (might have been college ball, I don’t remember). You put in $5 and whoever was closest to the final winner picked up the pot. Not knowing anything about football, I made a Christmas tree looking thing out of the choices and came pretty close to winning.

Blue and gold traditionally are the airforce colours, orange and black reminds of road maintenance. In the long run it’s the maintenance crews that win where it counts and the airforce was helluvaexpensive while actually not accomplishing anything without boots on the ground.

Is there anything people dont bet on for the Super Bowl ?Since the Steelers are out…Go Rams !!!!

I live halfway between D.C. and Baltimore. I believe they were both early outs. I don’t have a dog in the fight, but then again, I don’t really follow any sports…

The RAMS by three ?

This is a riot! It ain’t what you know, Arlo.

And, Arlo, Jimmy Johnson was right years ago when he started covering sports and realized he’d be writing the same article every single time: So-and-so won, thus-and-such lost. So he decided against that profession. (Happy for us!)

“I returned, and saw under the Sunne, That the race is not to the swift, nor the battell to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skil; but time and chance happeneth to them all.” —Ecclesiastes 9:11, 1611 Authorized Version

Bengals to cover the +3.5 and I’m leaning the under at 48.5

It’s a no-brainer. This IS the Year of the Tiger.

Arlo: If you have let Janis make the first pick every year and then lost the bet, you’re a very slow learner.

Janis’ method reminds me of an old Andy Capp strip. Flo’s method of picking winning horses involved matching the birthday of the horse to her relatives, the color of the horse, etc. She won; he lost and wound up crying.

I would actually love to see a tie.

More importantly, who do you want in the Puppy Bowl?

Arlo loser…Janis winner!

Which team is in the Super Bowl? What are their colors? Color me “I don’t care”…

It’ll be close, but this is the year for the BENGALS!!

2011 Packers versus Steelers.

“Blue and Gold” reminds me of “that dress”, so, are their colors Blue and Gold or Gold and Blue? ☺

Remember in the Cheers Episode where Diane was winning the football pool. When Sam finally got her to explain her “system”

Diane: “Look here, Dolphins against Bears.”

Sam: “the Dolphins, right?”

Diane: “Of course not! Bears are at home, Dolphins have no place to Swim in a Forest”

The way they keep adding to the season, it’s getting to be year-round.

Super Bowl- yawn. Both teams win lots of money. You want to REALLY make it the Super Bowl?

The losing team all gets covid, and the winning team becomes permanently immune.

Arlo, you’re using the wrong criteria. It’s not the best, it’s uniform colors.

Price of tickets is outrageous and so is the $6000 parking

I thought comics were written at least 6 weeks in advance? This is less than 2 weeks. Go Rams! Stafford deserves to win after all those bad years in Detroit.

Tom Brady’s daughter has held the Lombardi trophy more times than the Cowboys have won playoff games in the last 20 yers. She’s 8.

I’ll go with Los Angeles. Those are my high school’s colors – or were when I was in high school.

Blue and Gold – two colours that caused a lot of arguments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress

Well, now I know who’s playing.

For a few years when I was a kid the local paper would print the games for the week. It was probably the only thing in the paper my mom read. Every week we would mark who we thought would win. I won most of the time. I ALWAYS! picked which animal or color I liked the best. Mom was a die-hard Cowboys fan. My father was Redskins. The Bucs were always the worst team. One year my father actually bet FOR the Cowboys because they were playing the Bucs-who had not won all year. The Cowboys lost! Apparently it was one of the games to go down in history types.

I’m amazed that Jimmie J got such a short lead time on this one. Doesn’t he usually have to submit comics a month or two in advance?

I have never lost. I bet that one team will win and one team will lose. Since I never know who is playing, makes perfect sense to me! At one time hubby tried to get me interested. I picked games by animal hiriarachy.

Wonder what the wager is…. Might not mind losing.

Poor Arlo is looking kind of, uh, old in his close ups.

Yet another one I don’t get.

I always vote for the team with the cutest quarterback.