{"id":7054,"date":"2024-02-12T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=7054"},"modified":"2024-02-12T18:00:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T01:00:59","slug":"the-super-bowl-the-moon-and-the-number-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=7054","title":{"rendered":"The Super Bowl, the Moon, and the Number 13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It wasn&#8217;t a pretty season nor a pretty game, but the Kansas City Chiefs prevailed in yesterday&#8217;s Super Bowl, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/sports\/football\/kansas-city-chiefs-super-bowl-mahomes-3026f6a2?st=s9x9lvinno9jqn3&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">25 &#8211; 22 win in overtime<\/a>. The San Francisco Forty-Niners had leads and two chances to stop the Chiefs and win: once at the end of regulation when the Chiefs drove down for a tying field goal with three seconds left and once in overtime when the Chiefs drove down for the winning touchdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I saved this slot in the <strong>Ewellogy <\/strong>to write something profound about the game, but it&#8217;s just a game so let&#8217;s treat it like one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Here we are, under a crescent moon in Las Vegas, a tumultuous Kansas City season climaxing in a storybook comeback ending.&nbsp;&#8211; <\/em>Jason Gay, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/sports\/football\/chiefs-super-bowl-mahomes-kelce-swift-d7dc8733?st=42tunw9l09sic4u&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wall Street Journal, February 12, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crescent moon&#8230;where have I seen that before? I remember, in the Friday File of the daily 70-word blog by the economist Elliot Eisenberg:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Friday File: Since the start of CY2019, the KC Chiefs have played 20 games when the moon is a waxing crescent, a growing toenail sliver. And of those 20 games they have won 19. By contrast the 49ers are 15-15 in the last 30 waxing crescent games they have played. Lunar analysis says the Chiefs will win. The economist in me is overwhelmed at the correlation. As for causality\u2026<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/econ70.com\/2024\/02\/09\/super-success\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elliot Eisenberg<\/a>, February 9, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There you have it. Of course, you also have the #1 pop singer in the world, Taylor Swift, in a storybook romance with Chiefs&#8217; tight end Travis Kelce.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-3.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-3.png?resize=474%2C318&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-3.png?w=552&amp;ssl=1 552w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-3.png?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And Taylor Swift fans knew that the Chiefs were going to win because of her connection to the number 13. I get it. I was born on December 13th, myself, same as Taylor Swift. But here&#8217;s the significance for her:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I was born on the 13th. I turned 13 on Friday the 13th. My first album went gold in 13 weeks. My first No. 1 song had a 13-second intro. Every time I&#8217;ve won an award I&#8217;ve been seated in either the 13th seat, the 13th row, the 13th section or row M, which is the 13th letter. Basically, whenever a 13 comes up in my life, it&#8217;s a good thing. &#8211; <\/em>Taylor Swift,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/e12uaw\/taylor-swift-explains-why-13-is-her-lucky-number\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> MTV, May 7, 2009<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So for this year&#8217;s football season:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Super Bowl was the 13th Chiefs game she&#8217;d attended.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s Super Bowl LVIII or 58, and 5 + 8 = 13<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Chiefs played the 49ers, and 4 + 9 = 13<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The game was played on 2\/11, and 2 + 11 = 13<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To make the game, she had to fly in from Tokyo, a trip that takes, you guessed it, 13 hours<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between the moon, Taylor Swift, and the number 13, the 49ers didn&#8217;t have a chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ll be back to more serious subjects tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>You&#8217;ve all been to the stadium and seen the athletes race. Everyone runs; one wins. Run to win. (1 Corinthians 9.24, MSG)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t a pretty season nor a pretty game, but the Kansas City Chiefs prevailed in yesterday&#8217;s Super Bowl, a 25 &#8211; 22 win in overtime. The San Francisco Forty-Niners had leads and two chances to stop the Chiefs and win: once at the end of regulation when the Chiefs drove down for a tying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=7054\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Super Bowl, the Moon, and the Number 13<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1PM","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7054"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7059,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7054\/revisions\/7059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}