Super Bowl 60 Squares: Many Strategies For Picking a Winner
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Super Bowl 60 Squares: Many Strategies For Picking a Winner

Jorge Martin talks a little strategy on how to approach the Super Bowl 60 Squares, with an actual copy of the pool ready for you to download and fill out.

Hey, it’s Super Bowl Week! Time for the silliness of asking NFL players what tree they would be and their favorite Taylor Swift era (1989, it says here). It’s also time to channel Huey Lewis and the News’ Hip to be Square. Well, actually, “squares” as in the plural in Super Bowl Squares.

Yes, it’s that time of year, where anyone can agonize over whether to go with their “lucky number” or to throw caution to the wind and just choose squares without any thought. Hint, those are often the big winners.

Super Bowl 60 Squares Pool

Here is Fantasy Life’s annual contribution to your Super Bowl party. Just open (or save) this image and print it out. Then let your party goers start filling in all 100 boxes between trips to the guacamole bar. Hopefully the squares get filled in before the guac and chips run out.

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Is there much strategy involved in picking your squares? Well, there is the spouse/children’s birthday approach, where the day of the month where they were born is used to select the box number—it’s recommended to fill in box numbers from 1 to 100. There is also the corners strategy, where the goal is to fill in each corner on the sheet. The possibilities are endless!

Does any of this make a difference? Probably as much difference as it’ll make when you sit in your “lucky” spot on the couch whenever your favorite team is playing on any given Sunday. The goal is to have fun and have a little juice in the game, even if your favorite team might be on the ski slopes or in Cabo.

What’s best about these squares is that even casual or non-football fans can get excited about the action on the field instead of scrolling Instagram or going on and on—again—about their recent trip to Europe. There are few sweats better than watching a potential scoring drive come down to the final seconds of a quarter, with the person holding the winning score combination pleading with the driving team to just run out the clock. Then there are those who have the possible scores for if the driving team kicks a field goal, scores a touchdown and even goes for two. Imagine the yelling! You’ll know the feeling that cooterdoodle has when one of her Scared Money bets is close to hitting.

So make your copies of this pool and get to filling it out. And make sure to get enough avocados so that the guacamole is plentiful. And BTW, read Dwain's Utilization Report breakdown of the big game so that you're the most knowledgeable person at the game, and so you can switch the subject away from the Europe trip. Or if you and a friend want to jump into a Guilloteenie, you can chop up a draft all the way to kickoff. 

Happy Super Bowl Sunday!