Not sticking up for Nate Silver, (personally, I think he’s a far better writer than statistician, which is why we all read fivethirtyeight and not Andrew Gelman’s blog, for instance), but the big problem here is you are assuming that Silver’s statistical models are far more predictive than they are. All he is doing is…

That’s fine, I’m content just talking shit about football...

Here’s what the second paragraph says, (I lived in Rio for a year, live with a Brazilian and speak pretty fluent Portuguese):

The best part of the “Your Team Sucks” series is the paragraph where they insult the team’s city. After winners like this year’s descriptions of San Francisco, San Diego and Tampa, you guys fumble on the one-yard line when it comes to New York City, a city that practically makes fun of itself. I’m disappointed.