There are the Buffalo wings and the over-praised commercials, and this year there is a halftime Madonna concert, followed by a loud 20-minute discussion among friends as to whether a halftime Madonna concert was good idea.

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The neat thing about this prediction was the way it seemed to fit the number of good friends most people have, as measured by the length of address books, the size of hunter-gatherer bands, the population of neolithic villages and the strength of army units.

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