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Basketball legend believes Josh Allen's team will finally win one for Buffalo
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Published Sep 09, 2024 • 1 minute read
Charles Barkley has made a surprising Super Bowl pick.
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The NBA legend turned iconic sports broadcaster believes Buffalo will finally win its long-coveted first NFL championship this season.
Speaking on the Bill Simmons Podcast last week, Barkley, who said he actually is as big a football fan these days as a basketball fan, made his pick for Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans.
“The Buffalo Bills win their first Super Bowl,” Barkley told Simmons on the podcast, before strangely conflating the current team to the 1990s powerhouse, which repeatedly fell agonizingly short.
“They are the most underrated great team ever. To make it to four straight Super Bowls will never ever happen again,” Barkley said.
Buffalo edged the Arizona Cardinals in Sunday’s season-opener, largely through Allen’s heroics, but the quarterback was banged up on one of his two touchdown rushes in the game. Barkley’s comments came before the game.
Barkley, who was drafted and originally starred for the Philadelphia 76ers before being traded to the Phoenix Suns, where he was named NBA MVP and made the NBA Finals, still supports Philadelphia teams and believes in the Eagles this year too.
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“I got the Eagles against the Bills and the Bills win their first Super Bowl,” Barkley said on the podcast.
Buffalo has made the playoffs 20 times in 65 seasons, including the four Super Bowl losses and six of those playoff berths have come in the last 10 seasons. But Patrick Mahomes and the two-time defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs have been a thorn in Buffalo’s side and there’s also league MVP Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens to deal with, amongst other AFC foes (including another rival, Cincinnati, which now has star quarterback Joe Burrow healthy again).
The Bills fell to Kansas City three times since 2020 to end their season and to Cincinnati in 2022.
Barkley also discussed the WNBA players bungling their treatment of rookie sensation Caitlin Clark on the podcast and his broadcasting future in light of TNT losing NBA rights.
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