![]() ![]() That's the only way you can lose three straight coin tosses when you have the call. I'm guessing Belichick had definitely cracked the code of the coin toss curse at this point and had his captains get the call wrong on purpose. Instead, that honor went to the Eagles, who called "tails." The coin came up heads, which made the Patriots the winner, and as we all know by now, the winner is destined to lose the game.įor the third time in five years, the Patriots got to make the call on the coin flip and for the third time in five years, they made the wrong call and as we all know by now, being wrong is the new right when it comes to the coin flip. One year later after beating the Falcons, the Patriots were back in the Super Bowl, but they didn't get to make the call on the coin toss this time. Super Bowl LII: Eagles 41-33 over Patriots Like Super Bowl XLIX, the Patriots called heads in this Super Bowl, and once again, it came up tails, which gave the coin toss win to Atlanta. THEY WON THE TOSS and the curse got them. We all like to laugh about the fact that the Falcons blew a 28-3 lead in Super Bowl LI, but the truth is that they were going to lose no matter how big their lead was. Super Bowl LI: Patriots 34-28 over Falcons 500) but then the curse hit, and now, the coin toss winner is 24-32 all-time in Super Bowls. Going into Super Bowl XLIX between the Patriots and Seahawks, the coin toss winner had a 24-24 record in the Super Bowl (it was EXACTLY. If you win the coin toss, you lose the game, it's that simple. It doesn't matter who's favored to win the game, it doesn't matter who the home team is, it doesn't even matter what you call on the coin flip, the curse shows no mercy for anyone. The coin toss curse started in Super Bowl XLIX and it has taken down every coin toss winner since then. Since the Chiefs are the visiting team in the Super Bowl this year, they'll get to make the call when the coin is flipped before the game, and I have to say, if I were the Chiefs, I would simply call nothing to guarantee a loss. Since the start of the 2014 season, every team that has WON the coin toss in the Super Bowl has ended up LOSING the game. But these trainers say that police agencies don’t want dogs trained to ignore remnant odors, because any alert is an authorization for a more thorough search.If it's possible to lose the coin toss on purpose, the Kansas City Chiefs might want to think about doing that this year, because a coin toss curse has officially hit the Super Bowl. For example, I’ve interviewed dog trainers who have told me that drug dogs can be trained to alert only when there are measurable quantities of a drug - to ignore so-called “trace” or “remnant” alerts that aren’t cause for arrest. In fact, a drug dog’s alert in and of itself is often cited as evidence of drug activity, even if no drugs are found, thus enabling police to seize cash, cars and other property from motorists. A dog prone to false alerts means more searches, which means more opportunities to find and seize cash and other lucre under asset forfeiture policies. ![]() Supreme Court has ruled on this issue not only doesn’t account for the problem, but also has given police agencies a strong incentive to ensure that drug dogs aren’t trained to act independently of their handler’s suspicions. The problem here is that invasive searches based on no more than a government official’s hunch is precisely what the Fourth Amendment is supposed to guard against. But even here, the dog-handler bond can become problematic, which is why some detection experts are turning to rats. The fact that mine-sniffing dogs tend to be more accurate than their drug-sniffing cousins further illustrates the point - handlers not only have fewer preconceptions about where mines are located, but they also have an incredibly strong incentive for the dogs to be accurate about finding them. This has been confirmed by tests of K9 units that have shown that controlled tests designed to fool handlers are much more likely to trigger false alerts than controlled tests designed to fool the dogs. If a drug dog isn’t specifically trained to compensate for this, it will merely read its handler’s body language and confirm its handler’s suspicions about who is and isn’t hiding drugs. The problem with drug-sniffing dogs is not that dogs aren’t capable of sniffing out drugs it’s that we’ve bred into domestic dogs a trait that trumps that ability - a desire to read us and to please us.
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