DALLAS — Unless you live under a rock, we’ve all seen the videos of animals across the country “predicting” the winner of the Super Bowl every February in the lead-up to the game. 

What You Need To Know

  • The Dallas Zoo posted a funny video on social media featuring a compilation of its past Super Bowl predictions

  • The zoo's animals have correctly predicted the winner of the Big Game only once since 2017

  • At the Fort Worth Zoo, Bubbles the hippopotamus selected the Kansas City Chiefs to win Super Bowl LIX this Sunday over the Philadelphia Eagles

  • Out west, the El Paso Zoo’s two mountain lions are preparing for their “Big Game Prediction" on Saturday

From a litter of puppies on “The Tonight Show” to piranhas at an aquarium, the viral trend of animals predicting the winner of the Big Game has been going on for years. 

Many of these furry friends are more wrong than they are right when it comes to their projections, especially those at the Dallas Zoo. 

In a funny post on social media, the Dallas Zoo put together a video compilation of all of its animals’ past predictions, and well, they probably shouldn’t quit their day jobs. 

Since 2017, the Dallas Zoo’s animals have only once correctly predicted the winner of the Super Bowl. That’s a 1-7 record. 

Last year, an eastern bongo named Taylor Swift went against its namesake and selected the San Francisco 49ers, who went on to lose to the Kansas City Chiefs in overtime.

“This year, we’re ditching the prediction – because let’s be real, our animals have called the winner wrong more times than we can count,” the Dallas Zoo said in its social media post. 

But other Texas zoos are continuing the trend. 

At the Fort Worth Zoo, Bubbles the hippopotamus chomped down on some carrots and apple slices and selected the Chiefs to win Super Bowl LIX this Sunday over the Philadelphia Eagles. But that might not be a good thing for Chiefs fans.

Zoo officials noted in a social media post that Bubbles and the zoo’s overall prediction record “hasn’t always been a touchdown.”

According to the Fort Worth Report, Bubbles has a 0-1 record for predictions and the zoo’s animals overall have only correctly selected the winner of the Super Bowl once in the past decade.

Out west, the El Paso Zoo’s two mountain lions are preparing for their “Big Game Prediction.” Franklin and Scout correctly predicted the Chiefs’ victory last year, and zoo staff hope they can do it again. 

The El Paso Zoo is inviting people to watch and see which helmet-shaped piñata the two will rip into first at 1 p.m. on Saturday.