To knock Silver for his prediction is to take away from the greatness of the Patriots victory.
Whether Silver was right, wrong, crazy or whatever, it was indeed a great comeback, as this Steeler fan will grudgingly admit. It was also a very improbable one, which makes Silver right. That’s no great comliment to Silver’s ability to estimate probabilities, though. Common sense certainly tells us that a team with a 25 point second half lead has a very high liklihood of winning.