Well, I hoped I grabbed you with the headline. To be honest, it's not really a fair headline--more hype than anything. But I do have a legitimate answer to offer. Why will the Washington Redskins win Super Bowl XLIII to be held in Tampa, Fla. at Raymond James Stadium? Simple. It's May and they have as good a shot right now as any team in the league. (That and every year the New York Giants won the Super Bowl, the Redskins won the following year. Yes, it's true--look it up.) But enough fodder.

Now to get to the real point I'd like to make. All across America and even the world for that matter, there are millions of NFL fans blogging away, chatting online, reading forums, and prognosticating (okay, talking smack) why their respective team will win it all, or at the least beat down every other team in their division. It's May and it's actually quite funny to enter this online world of football hyperbole and see just how serious (or not) fans take to defending their teams while dissing others.

Just hop on ESPN.com and within three clicks you can be reading comments posted by fans such as:

"I am sick and tired of people saying that Carolina is garbage... How about this, if you think the Panthers are going to suck this year, just post here. I'll be sure to send you a card that says "SUCK IT!" when the Panthers make it to the playoffs. Oh, and Eagles fans can ####." (submitted by WrappedInBacon 3 hours ago).

Or this:

"The team that'll come out on top of the NFC East... Washington Redskins. Playoff team from last year - decimated with injuries, poorly fit offensive scheme, dealt with more turmoil than any team in the league, yet still found a way to win squeeze into the playoffs from a division where no team was under .500. Now they have a new coach with a fresh offense, a healthy o-line and healthy skill players, they lost no one from last season (other than Sean Taylor), and they added 10 draft picks to the mix. If the skins can stay even relatively healthy, they'll be the best team in the division." (submitted by assimon 2 days ago).

I could provide example after example but you get the point. This is the time of the year with the NBA and NHL are finishing up and baseball season is just starting to shape up, which leaves millions of sports fans in a lurch, just waiting and waiting for the nation's most popular sport to resume in late August. Now is the time when anybody with a keyboard can claim that there team will win next year's Super Bowl and pretty much degrade every other team in the league, within reason or not.

What does it all mean. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Even the most seasoned football fans--those that actually spend an entire weekend watching the NFL Draft (held this past April)--don't know a thing about what's going to actually happen this coming season. Last year, I was one of those morons and predicted that the NFC East would finish something like this:

(1) Cowboys 11-5 division champ
(2) Redskins 10-6 wild card playoff team
(3) Eagles 7-9 see ya on the golf course
(4) Giants  4-12 bad, just plain bad

And yet who won the Super Bowl? That's right, the Giants.

So because it's May and another 2.5 months until NFL teams starting training camp, I can say with confidence that the Washington Redskins will win Super Bowl XLIII. And who's to argue with me?

You, perhaps.