83 Predictions for 2011 that Should Happen but Probably Won’t
Posted by mvetack on January 6, 2011
- Matt Bonner starts an international sandwich chain called Red Rockets
- Rasheed Wallace or Robert Horry hits the game winning shot in the NBA finals
- Jimmy Fallon becomes the face of late night, with Questlove right there by his side
- The Heat face off against the Spurs in the NBA Finals and break every TV rating record
- Space Jam is re-released in 3D
- NFL Redzone is offered online for a discounted price
- Michael Vick graces the cover of Madden 12 and two weeks after release it is deemed illegal to use Vick because of his dominance
- NHL games will be shown two or three times a week on ESPN, FOX, NBC, or CBS (not all of us have VERSUS)
- MMA fights will lead SportsCenter more than ten times
- A batch of young exciting boxers and a newly implemented plan for boxing gets people excited about it again
- Three More NBA Super Teams (Heat) are formed
- Andre Johnson and Cortland Finnegan face off in the octagon
- Andre Johnson and Cortland Finnegan have a much needed rematch in the octagon
- Andre Johnson and Cortland Finnegan have a third and final fight in the octagon to settle the score
- Technology allows Ted Williams to return to baseball
- Ted Williams 2.0 signs the largest contract in baseball history
- Prince Fielder endorses baseball pajamas
- One of the major sports adds a new team called the Zombies
- Chipper Jones announces his retirement and takes over as Manager
- Manu Ginobli finishes in the top 3 in the MVP voting
- Slam Magazine becomes a weekly mag
- US Mens Soccer ranks 1st in the World
- Fatheads drop in price by 50%
- College Football implements a 16 team playoff
- Bill Raftery opens a traveling Onions! Stand to sell Raft’s Onion rings on location of college basketball games
- 2002 MLB All Star game that ended in a tie will finally be decided as all players from the game are brought back to play some more extra innings
- Brett Favre and Jenn Sterger go head to head on Dancing with the Stars
- Kevin Durant is selected for NBA 2k12’s cover
- A clueless mom fills out a perfect NCAA Bracket
- The Colts figure out how to run the ball and stop the run
- Steroids are nowhere to be found in all levels of sports
- EA Sports loses its monopoly on NFL licensing in video games
- LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, Derrick Rose, and Blake Griffin all participate in the Dunk Contest
- Jim Mora’s “Playoffs?” and Allen Iverson’s “Were talkin Practice” press conferences are never referenced ever again
- Stuart Scott steps down from ESPN and or he stops the mid 90’s middle schooler act
- Jack Johnson performs a 2 hour long halftime show at the Super Bowl
- Backbreaker Football 2 comes out and is twice as good as the first one (if you have yet to check out the first BackBreaker game please stop reading and check it out now)
- Aroldis Chapman becomes a dominate starting pitcher and loses no velocity on his fastball
- Keene State College gets a football team
- The Yellow Line is no longer “Unofficial”
- The Cubs play baseball in October
- All Networks decide that fans running onto the field is suitable for us to watch
- Michael Jordan shows us all he’s still got it by competing and winning the 3pt contest
- Baseball cards become more popular than video games
- Neither the Celtics or Lakers make it to the NBA Finals
- Peyton Manning is elected into the Hall of Fame
- I in game dunk in a men’s league game
- SBnation.com starts a magazine
- Ron Artest plays in the NFL
- Brandon Marshall plays in the NBA
- Wesley Matthews will be a household name
- ESPN on NBA’s halftime show coffee shop table will get even smaller and more uncomfortable
- I will pick up a bigger interest in and follow college baseball
- Dick Vitale and Bill Raftery call a game together
- The Dunk Contest is amazing
- Ron Artest wins Kobe his 6th NBA Finals ring and gets another minute on the mic post game
- Pau and Marc Gasol will get a reality tv show, and it will be great
- Tim Tebow quickly becomes a top ten quarterback in the NFL
- Baseball holds a Home Run Derby for pitchers during its All Star Break
- The Pitchers Home Run Derby will be called the Chicks Dig the Long ball Competition
- Micah Owings wins the inaugural Chicks Dig the Long ball Competition
- Andrew Bynum, Greg Oden, Brandon Roy, Blake Griffin, and Yao Ming stay healthy for over a year
- Reggie Bush becomes an every down back and wows us on a weekly basis like he did at USC
- Patrick Roy coaches a Stanley Cup level NHL team
- The new NFL playoff overtime rules will be used at least once
- The Mets win the World Series
- The Broncos win the Super Bowl
- The Bulls win the Finals (ignore Heat vs Spurs prediction)
- The Avalanche win the Stanley Cup
- North Carolina wins the NCAA Mens Basketball Championship
- Notre Dame football goes undefeated
- Vince Young beats the Titans in the playoffs
- A 16 seed beats a one seed in the Big Dance
- The Basketball Jones tv show airs in the United States
- Half court and beyond shots are counted at 4 points
- 55 plus yard FGs are counted as 4 points
- A Goalie scoring is counted as 2 goals
- A pitcher hitting a Homerun is counted as 2 runs
- The Olympics announce three on three basketball as its newest Olympic sport
- HD tv, like color tv before it, is available for free
- The Red Sox and Yankees have a benches clearing brawl resulting in 9 total broken bones
- Tommy Heinsohn agrees with a call against the Celtics
- And Finally, YOUR favorite team wins the big game
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