Nonlocal Input:
Act of motion (most votes cast) paired with one team or more-than-one team (direct and indirect potentials) competing in the Super Bowl

From 2000 to 2012, fans of all 32 NFL teams were invited to vote for their favorite team to be featured on the next Tempt Destiny billboard. Should the team with the most votes win their conference championship game thereby earn the potential to compete in the Super Bowl, then and only then, can a direct selection (team with the most votes) or indirect selection (one of two teams with the most votes) come-to-exist. Thus, the nonlocal input function of the Tempt Destiny experiment – how choice is predetermined without which the local part of the experiment (creation of the artwork, production of the billboard, and the completion of the artwork) cannot take place.

After ten years of requiring the team with the most votes to also win its conference championship game (direct potential) in order to be on the next Tempt Destiny Billboard of Choice (direct selection - motion paired with one potential), a fundamental change was made.

Beginning with SB XLIV, should the team who received the most overall votes not win its conference championship game, then we would ffer to do the Tempt Destiny Billboard of Chance (indirect selection - motion paired with more-than-one potential) for the team going to the SB which happens to have the most votes between the two teams.

Tempt Destiny Billboard Track Records

Tempt Destiny Billboard of Choice (direct selection - certain win/certain artwork completion) – 3W (SB XXI, SB XXV, SB XLII)
Tempt Destiny Billboard of Chance (indirect selection - probable win/possible artwork completion) – 2W - 1L (SB XLIV, SB XLV, SB XLVI*)

*Although a selection was made, no billboard was created (read more)

What was this about?

The Tempt Destiny billboard competition was an experiment about destiny or as physicist John S Bell coined, superdeterminism. If everything is predetermined, then choice must also be predetermined. This means that the experimenter’s choice (NFL fans) direct selection and indirect selections are also predetermined. The tradition is, after the team depicted on the billboard wins the SB (cause) can the billboard painting be completed by having the football painted silver (effect) to represent the trophy won. The premiss is twofold. When a direct selection is made, the completion of the artwork is certain (artwork on the left side). When an indirect selection is made, the completion of the artwork is probable (artwork on the right side).

Two types of selections to win this:

1. Billboard of Choice (direct selection) - The fans that cast the most votes prior to the conference championship games, directly wins the billboard IF, and only if, that team also makes it to the SB.

2. Billboard of Chance (indirect selection) - If option one does not take place, then the SB bound team that happens by chance to have the most votes indirectly wins the billboard.

NOTE: On a personal note, to my fellow Giants fans who's team will no longer accept their gift of support, my condolences. It seams appropriate that what began with the Giants should also end with the Giants' final decision. With conclusive evidence of predetermined events obtained, the Tempt Destiny experiment has officially drawn to a close.

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