NPR's Barbershop Predicted the Super Bowl With Stunning Accuracy

Michel Martin's Feb. 4 guests were right on the money

The latest edition of Barbershop, a media-roundtable discussion heard on NPR’s All Things Considered Weekend, was taped just ahead of Super Bowl LI. The Feb. 4 participants were Washington Post sports columnist Kevin Blackistone, New York-based ESPN senior writer Pablo Torre and freelance political commentator Lenny McAllister.

When host Michel Martin brought up the issue of Deflategate, reminding listeners about the scandal’s contextual connection to the Patriots competing for a fifth Super Bowl, she asked Blackistone if it was time for people to finally give quarterback Tom Brady his props:

“Well, of course.

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