There's really no point in playing Super Bowl XLVIII.

Seattle is going to win, and there's only one thing Denver can do to prevent that from happening. It has to quickly give jobs to thousands of its unemployed citizens.

At least that's the outcome confidently predicted by career management solution provider RiseSmart. The folks over there did some number-crunching, and found that, since the Super Bowl win by San Francisco over Cincinnati in 1989, the team whose hometown had the lower unemployment rate has won 80 percent of the big games.

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Dan Cook

Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.