TEXAS \u2014 The tradition of animals making their pick to win the Super Bowl is alive and well \u2014 on land and in the water.<\/p>\n
This year, SEA LIFE<\/a> in San Antonio\u2019s rescued sea turtle, Guacamole, did not hesitate in its prediction of the winner of the big game.<\/p>\n Aquarium staff placed underwater signs with both the\u00a0Seattle Seahawks<\/a> and New England Patriots<\/a> team names in Guacamole\u2019s water tank, according to a statement from SEA LIFE\u2019s communications manager. They even left the turtle squid and lettuce snacks.<\/p>\n Guacamole made up its mind immediately, swimming right to the lettuce snack next to the Seahawks and choosing the West Coast team to win the game. It seems like Guacamole realized animals with \u201csea\u201d in their names should stick together. The reptile\u2019s prediction will be tested in the finale of the NFL\u2019s 2025-26 season on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n And San Antonio isn\u2019t the only place where animals are making their Super Bowl preferences known this week.<\/p>\n At the El Paso Zoo<\/a>, Hodari, the African lion, will charge towards one of two helmet-shaped pi\u00f1atas on Saturday afternoon. Each pi\u00f1ata will be filled with Hodari\u2019s treats and placed by zookeepers. Visitors are encouraged to come dressed in NFL gameday attire, but Hodari\u2019s pick will also be livestreamed on Facebook.<\/p>\n It\u2019s no secret that animals have been \u201cpredicting\u201d the winner of the Super Bowl for years, but in some areas, like at the Dallas Zoo, the tradition has been ditched. Their animals have guessed incorrectly substantially more times than correctly, according to a social media post the Dallas Zoo published last year<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n But maybe this year, Guacamole and Hodari can change the tide and earn back some credibility for Texas. We\u2019ll find out this Sunday at 5:30 p.m. when the teams face off in Santa Clara, Calif.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEXAS \u2014 The tradition of animals making their pick to win the Super Bowl is alive and well…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[244,35957,223,8075,6293,154,27564,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-149305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-animals","tag-corinne-piorkowski","tag-news","tag-rotx-what-you-need-to-know","tag-san-antonio-what-you-need-to-know","tag-sports","tag-super-bowl","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}