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Petrino (May He Rest in Peace) To Coach Dirty Birds

By oddSeth ⋅ January 8, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Bobby Petrino’s decision to accept the head coaching job for the Atlanta Falcons had rippling effects across not only the NFL but dead pools as well, with Petrino suddenly replacing Fidel Castro on many lists as the celebrity most likely to die in the upcoming year.

When it was explained to dead pool participants that Michael “Coach Killer” Vick didn’t, in fact, actually kill his coaches and instead only greatly increased their odds of being fired through no real fault of their own, Fidel rocketed right back up to the top of the charts, with a bullet.