In what can only be described as a massive coincidence, Jeopardy! featured a "New England Patriots" category on Wednesday night, the same day the verdict was announced in former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez's murder trial.
Celebrate the @Patriots Super Bowl win with the NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS category today on #Jeopardy!
— Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) April 15, 2015
Wednesday's show was pre-taped, as Jeopardy! always is, and the show announced via Twitter early Wednesday morning that the Patriots would have a category that night, so it's not like they waited until after the verdict was announced and then decided to shoehorn it in there. About an hour and a half after that tweet was sent, the jury came back with a guilty verdict on a charge of first degree murder, as well as several weapons charges.
Here's one example of a question from the show:
The answer there, of course, is Bill Parcells. The show also featured questions about former Pats head coach Pete Carroll, who recently coached the Seahawks in a loss to the Patriots in the Super Bowl, as well as Rob Gronkowski, who as recently as a few years ago formed the league's best duo of pass-catching tight ends along with Hernandez, though that was before the revelations about Hernandez's off the field activities came to light. Hernandez will be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole thanks to Wednesday's verdict, and he still faces trial on an additional double-murder charge stemming from a shooting outside a nightclub in 2012.
