Coin lands Saints side up

When you toss a coin, you have two possible outcomes. We are taught in probability, over the course of tosses, 50% of them will be one side and 50% the other. With no bias, chance is random. We know football isn’t necessarily “random” – many factors go into each game. And we know that over the course of flipping that coin, you might have a decent stretch of flips where you continually land on one side or the other, or a group of times where the percentage is several ticks higher or lower than 50%. But often randomness is a watchword – “Any Given Sunday”. The New Orleans Saints may have been on the bad side of that coin toss for a good while, and maybe it was just time for the flip to land their way.

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