NFL Fans Roasted Michael Irvin for Picking Dallas Cowboys to Win the Super Bowl

The former Cowboys great made an obvious pick to win Super Bowl 58.
NFL Fans Roasted Michael Irvin for Picking Dallas Cowboys to Win the Super Bowl
NFL Fans Roasted Michael Irvin for Picking Dallas Cowboys to Win the Super Bowl /

Legendary former Dallas Cowboys WR Michael Irvin is, unsurprisingly, all in on his old team to win it all in 2023.

Appearing on FS1’s Undisputed on Thursday morning, Irvin picked the Cowboys to win Super Bowl LVIII over the Cincinnati Bengals during the show’s Super Bowl picks segment. If his pick comes true, it’d be the first championship in 27 years for the Cowboys, dating back to the three Super Bowl rings Irvin won in a Cowboys uniform in the 1990s.

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Here’s Irvin on why this is the year for Dallas to break through again.

Show host Skip Bayless, whose love for the Cowboys is well-known, didn’t go quite as far as Irvin, picking the Cowboys to reach the Super Bowl but lose to the Baltimore Ravens.

“I will admit to you, I have little to no objectivity… Last night, I went completely over the edge because I’m saying this team is as loaded as it has ever been,” Bayless said. He did stop short of picking them to win it all, partially to avoid jinxing his favorite team.

The reaction from fans to Irvin and Bayless? A collective eye-roll.


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Kevin Sweeney
KEVIN SWEENEY

Kevin Sweeney is a staff writer at Sports Illustrated covering college basketball and the NBA draft. He joined the SI staff in July 2021 and also serves host and analyst for The Field of 68. Sweeney is a Naismith Trophy voter and ia member of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association. He is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.