According to MSNBC " Buckle up on Super Sunday
The auto repair industry loves the Super Bowl because Americans are more likely to crash their cars after the game’s final gun.

Fact or fiction: Four years ago, researchers at the University of Toronto examined this bloody piece of Super Bowl lore. They determined that automobile accidents indeed climb more than 40 percent in the hours after the Super Bowl — with the biggest increase coming in cities and towns closest to the home of the losing team.

The study pointed to alcohol consumption, fatigue and inattention as the primary causes. Researchers compared Super Bowl Sunday with adjacent Sundays when weather was the same and found a 41 percent jump in fatal accidents in the four hours or more after the game along with a 48 percent rise in non-fatal accidents.

The numbers mirror common warnings from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.

“We encourage people not to drive after getting into heated conversations, so that would kind of play into this,” said Fairley Mahlum, director of communications for the AAA Foundation. “Some people express their anger in different ways. If you’re kind of excitable and you tend to get really angry by losing in a sport, it’s probably not best to go out and drive.”

Answer: Fact"

This sound like one of those things they are so good at poking fun at on Fark.

"Too many drunk drivers after Super Bowl! EVERYBODY PANIC!"

The media makes this stuff up so they can have something to get paid for.

Remember Deep Throat's advice to Woodward and Berstein "Follow the Money."

OK, cynical rant over.

Damn, I feel better!

Ole Joe

Yep but this was a debunking of most of that stuff except this one. I should have included the orginal link. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16877331/page/3 Be careful anyway.