Super Bowl Can Be Predicted by Jobless Rates

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football and business
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A city's unemployment status is a pretty good indicator of a team's chances of winning the Super Bowl, according to a new study based on public data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. According to the analysis by RiseSmart, the team whose metropolitan area boasts the lower jobless rate has won 16 of the past 20 Super Bowls -- an 80 percent success rate.

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