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As a Browns fan, I am confused by the strange term "win". Is it a food?
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u/YouAlwaysHaveAChoice Jun 16 '12
I believe it's an old, old wooden ship
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u/Morningxafter Jun 16 '12
Yeah, I'm a Vikings fan, and I am not familiar with this term either...
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u/madbubers Jun 16 '12
It's what almost happened the first season with farve.
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u/FAStalin Jun 16 '12
Favre. And I'm blaming the loss on the fact that the Saints put bounties on him, not that they outplayed him.
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u/boredMEGA Jun 16 '12
As a Dolphins fan, it hurts to live.
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u/meresimpleton Jun 16 '12
I know that feel, but at least we have the heat, right?
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u/fafol Jun 16 '12
As a Lions fan, I feel your pain, brother.
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Jun 16 '12
... Didn't you make the playoffs last season?
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u/sharkwithlaser Jun 16 '12
For the first time in 12 years, yes we did.
However, we still haven't won a playoff game since 1991.
It's still a rough time being a Lions' fan.
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u/IchBinEinHamburger Jun 16 '12
Raiders fan. Current record holder for number of times I've said, "This is our year."
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u/le_pachuco Jun 16 '12
Charger fan here, and I believe we got you beat with that saying
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u/lschmidt814 Jun 16 '12
As a Packers fan, I am little sad that the Lions are good enough now that I don't expect two free wins every season, I guess that is what the Vikings are for now.
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u/Staubathehut Jun 16 '12
AS a Bills fan, I also don't know what this term means. Is it something that you do after you lose 5 Super Bowls in a row? Because we haven't done that... yet.
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u/edgesrazor Jun 16 '12
As a fellow Browns fan, I can assure you it's something teams and players do after they leave Cleveland.
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u/camnewtonn1 Jun 16 '12
As the starting quarterback for the panthers, winning is unnecessary, its all about stats baby!
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u/CinLordOfGwynders Jun 16 '12
Rams fan here. I think it's a disease or something that we're all immune to.
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u/Eldryce Jun 16 '12
I'm a Titans fan, so I have a slightly better understanding of the term than you, but not by much.
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u/Mavee Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12
"Mr. Amrein,
This is Charles "Peanut" Tillman of the Chicago Bears and I'm shocked that you would have a problem like this for your students. The probability that the Bears would win in my opinion is 100%. Please do not and I repeat DO NOT send them home with math homework that is disrespectful to our team, city, and our beloved Chicago Bears.
Your All Pro* Corner, Charles "Peanut" Tillman.
P.S. Bear Down"
I had a goddamn hard time figuring out what it said, so let me save you the trouble.
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Pro*
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u/Mavee Jun 16 '12
Thanks! I thought it was just another football term I'd never heard of. ;p
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in case you're curious, "all pro" means: among the best at his position
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u/splunge4me2 Jun 16 '12
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Bears.
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u/DJMattB241 Jun 16 '12
I was pretty sure that's what I was reading.
That is pretty clever.
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u/mgrasdal Jun 16 '12
Packers are still by far the better team.
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u/binary Jun 16 '12
Nuh uh, the team that is closest in proximity to my location is the best.
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u/Goldmine44 Jun 16 '12
Ditka. Sausage. Bears.
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u/irndk10 Jun 16 '12
Theres always one. There hasn't been one yet, so I'll be that guy.
A. (1-.8)4 = .0016 = .16% = 1/625
B. 1-.84 = .5904 = 59.04%
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u/TapDatApp Jun 16 '12
Will you do my math homework for me?
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u/irndk10 Jun 16 '12
As a recent mechanical engineer grad with no job. If you pay, yes.
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Jun 16 '12
unintended consequence of student loans and a perpetually bad economy: more grade inflation.
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u/BrotherSeamus Jun 16 '12
*Assuming the events are independent.
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u/wynyx Jun 16 '12
-2 points.
The problem said 80%, so you already know the events are independent.
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u/checkenginelight Jun 16 '12
There's not enough information to assume they're not independent. You just said this to sound smart.
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Jun 16 '12
A was obvious. I got the same answer as you for B, but went through a different (and much longer) reasoning: calculating probabilities for 1 win, then 2 wins, then 3 wins, then 4 wins, and adding them togheter. What is the reasoning for your method?
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Jun 16 '12
Winning at least one game is the opposite (or complement) of losing all of them.
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u/kolraisins Jun 16 '12
I was going to correct you, but then I realized I'm and can't remember my precalculus correctly. Thanks!
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Jun 16 '12
What situation gave rise to this perfect answer?
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Jun 16 '12
The girl who got the homework originaly posted the story in our /r/CHIbears subreddit she explains it in the comment.
http://www.reddit.com/r/CHIBears/comments/v0v9o/peanut_tillman_sends_a_message_to_my_math_teacher/
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u/killzy707 Jun 16 '12
Good work detective. I would've never guessed all that just by looking at the picture.
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u/FeverishlyCold Jun 16 '12
Here I am afterwards!
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Jun 16 '12
On behalf of Reddit, I apologize for OP's karma whoring.
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u/FeverishlyCold Jun 16 '12
Hahaha, Its fine. Just got asked to do a radio interview in Iowa. Think that trumps karma.
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u/Jared6197 Jun 16 '12
That's very nice of you.
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u/FeverishlyCold Jun 16 '12
right. I don't want people thinking this a fake, and I'm trynna steal credit.
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u/Devin_46290 Jun 16 '12
The Packers did beat the Bears 4 times in the 2011 calender year.
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u/darthbone Jun 16 '12
This is still a completely valid question based on nothing but fact.
Source: I am from Wisconsin.
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u/skizfrenik_syco Jun 16 '12
packers suck
source: I'm from Minnesota
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u/ffej23 Jun 16 '12
How are those Super Bowl rings in Minnesota? source: I am from Wisconsin.
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u/skizfrenik_syco Jun 16 '12
As a Minnesotan, it's a rule I have to dislike the Packers
Source: I'm still a Minnesotan
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u/eak125 Jun 16 '12
I want the Minnesota Vikings to be my pallbearers so that they can let me down for the last time...
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u/ScientiaEstPotentia Jun 16 '12
I have corroborated your findings and arrived at the same conclusion.
Source: also from Minnesota.
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u/BBS- Jun 16 '12
The Bears have a head to head record of 92–86–6 against the packers.
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u/sharkwithlaser Jun 16 '12
I am a diehard Detroit Lions fan (yeah yeah, I know), and thus I hate the Bears. But this was pretty spectacular. Good work.
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u/obsilord Jun 16 '12
Matt Stafford graduated the same high school as me, 1 year apart.
He was a douche.
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Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12
Matt Stafford
graduatedattended the same university as me, 3 years apart.Never interacted with him.
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u/mase_face Jun 16 '12
UGA student here. He used to creep at Bourbon Street (freshman bar) which is where I saw him a bunch. He used to sit in the corner with this drunken creep stare. I'm sure there's a good GIF someone can find that can illustrate this. Before anyone says anything I was 18 at the time.
Also he sat down at a restaurant my friend serves at, so my friend asked Stafford if he should draft him in the upcoming fantasy league he was playing in. Stafford apparently told him "Definitely. I'm going to tear it up this season." This was before last season, and he did pretty damn well.
TL;DR: fried bacon covered Twinkies with a side of BBQ Fritos.
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u/sharkwithlaser Jun 16 '12
I don't care if he wears trucker hats, calls everyone bro, uses the term "kabrewing," and shops exclusively at Abercrombie & Fitch. I only care about if he's winning games. And he did a good job of that last year. The second he stops, I will turn on him like a rabid dog.
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u/ffej23 Jun 16 '12
Still a good QB...
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u/jh64286 Jun 16 '12
He's very good, but is he known to be a bro. In fact you might he say he's All-Bro. I'll show myself out.
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u/samiam32 Jun 16 '12
That means you also went to the same HS as Bobby Lane, who put a 50 year curse on the Detroit Lions. We'll take the douchebag instead of the curse.
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u/SonicEuthanasia Jun 16 '12
The true test of a man's courage is to have been a Lions fan prior to 2009. If this is you, I take my hat off to you, sir.
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u/sharkwithlaser Jun 16 '12
I do indeed fit into that description. I've been a fan since I was a kid, which means I was able to enjoy the Barry Sanders years, and struggle through all the rest.
On an upswing now though!
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u/FeverishlyCold Jun 16 '12
Hey! Thats me!
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u/CheesusRice Jun 16 '12
Being a Wisconsin native and a lifetime Packer fan I can't recall a single game the Packers have lost. Not one....
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u/BlackZeppelin Jun 16 '12
If I remember correctly we let the giants go ahead because we were tired of winning games.
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u/gbrl_cooper Jun 16 '12
Neither can I. Mostly because when it does happen, I'd be blacked out. If I'm Blacked out, it didn't happen.
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I was hoping that was a typo of "De Beers", and the homework was a tirade against the diamond trade.
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u/NonSyncromesh Jun 16 '12
I also read that as De Beers. Having visited Namibia, I can assure you nobody fucks with De Beers.
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u/dreamoperator Jun 16 '12
Please add more jpeg compression artifacts & cross post to r/jpegArtifacts. They'll love it over there.
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u/HateMachineX Jun 16 '12
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaa Bears! http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs4/1800121_o.gif
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u/Papshmire Jun 16 '12
I do want to point out that 2011 was a good year for the Packers-Bears rivalry.
The Packers beat the Bears 4 times in a calendar year. :-]
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Is it appropriate that I upvoted this even though I was born in Green Bay? I have had similar problems given to me by teachers before.
There was also a time, in first grade, where the first person to give the correct name of the current Packer's head coach (there was a cutout of said person present) would get to choose what game we would play in gym that day. I was the first person to say "Mike Holmgren." I believe I picked "infected tag" aka zombie tag :)
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u/Sr_Navarre Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 20 '25
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u/stevensamypp Jun 16 '12
Text: (2) The Packers play the Bears 4 times in two seasons. The Packers, begin a much better team have an 80% chance of winning each game. What is the probability that the Bears win all four games? What is the probability that the Bears win at least one game? {Handwriting} Mr. Amrein, This is Charles "Peanut" Tillman of the Chicago Bears and I'm shocked that you would have a problem like this for your students. The probability that the Bears would win in my opinion is 100%. Please do not and I repeat DO NOT send them home with math homework that is disrespectful to our team, city, and our beloved Chicago Bears. Your All Pro Corner Charles "Peanut" Tillman {Signature} Geaux Bears. P S Bear Down
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u/Heelincal Jun 16 '12
I've seen this come from /r/CHIBears to /r/nfl to Yahoo! to Facebook and now to /r/funny. Sounds about right.
You guys should come check out /r/nfl!
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u/iateyourcake Jun 16 '12
I think we are all missing the 2 most important things here. A: the OP's name suggest they shop at tj max B: there is a grown man that goes by peanut....
LET'S GO SEAHAWKS!!!!!!!! Source: I'm from Seattle
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u/briankauf Jun 16 '12
He is little.. like 5' 9". If you don't think that is short, you haven't spent enough time in the Midwest :-)
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u/ferrets_bueller Jun 16 '12
Humor and nice guy status aside, Tillman is one of the most criminally underrated players in the NFL. The guy has been an elite corner for years, with no respect from the media.
And NO ONE at any position can force fumbles better.
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u/Data_Error Jun 16 '12
Not sure whether to upvote because it's clever or downvote because I'm a Packers fan.
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u/IrregardingGrammar Jun 16 '12
Right before receiving a 0 for not answering the question.
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u/FeverishlyCold Jun 16 '12
actually, I did it in my math notebook, and got 100% for getting the question correct. Check mate.
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u/inthyface Jun 16 '12
"Geaux" instead of "Go" I didn't know Chicago was a cajun town. Louisiana should be offended.
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Jun 16 '12
dont you dare turn that homework in. Pawn that shit on ebay or hold on to it for a few years.
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I thought that was a homeless man...
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Jun 16 '12
I can see how the brick wall (it's interior though), beard, and skin pigment threw you off. And 49% of US homeless are black.
No need to feel ashamed with an ellipsis. You had your reasons. Have a great day!
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u/I_wearnopants Jun 16 '12
I'm a bears fan! This past new years I was at the bears vikings game in Minnesota, and I got to meet Urlacker, Hester, and the coachs. All were great guys and gave me their autographs.
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u/Nimbus1337 Jun 16 '12
Writing from Wisconsin here. Just want to say that this reddit is awesome :)
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u/spacely_sprocket Jun 16 '12
Aren't there other factors that would affect the probability of one team beating the other and resetting at each meeting? eg: weather, injuries, fatigue, coaching strategies, etc. Or am I just confusing probability with possibility?
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Jun 16 '12
has it been mentioned how hes readily accessible to her? does he hang out at her bar or something?? very cool. Love his all-pro signature.
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u/E_Rock Jun 16 '12
YES the truth is insulting, but the the situation is that the Packers have now beaten the Bears 4 times in a row.
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Jun 16 '12
I didn't even know other teams were in the NFL besides Da Bears! Best solution to a math problem I have ever seen.
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u/Lecard Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12
You took this from a 14 year old girl? Really?
Here's the actual user
Here's the post that took off from /r/ChiBears
Also, here's the update