Confession Of A Visiting Professor

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I will not set foot on a college campus 
unless I can steal something.

Maybe shoplift a book from their library 
or pocket some pencils and markers 
from an abandoned office.

But if I get really lucky, 
I will steal a young girl's heart.

I will tell her I am Professor Whatchamacalit,

visiting her esteemed campus to unravel

a long-standing math mystery.

I discovered the O'GRADY NUMBERS,

a sequence that has baffled all who have seen it.

21, 2, 5, 23, 8, 26, 9, 27, 10, 28

In the most ivory of towers  
at the most prestigious universities

throughout the globe, 
math freaks rack their bulbous brains,

crossing the midnight borders of sanity
to prove what links one  
O'GRADY NUMBER 

to the next.

But there is nothing provable except 
victory in the  46th Superbowl.

The numbers are named for a photograph

in a Long Island pub.

The New York Giants team photo

is all that holds the O'GRADY's 

together.

All you have to do is read 

the jersey number (or visible 

part of Jersey number,

alternating between

the first five players

of the first two rows.

The  10  being, of course,

Eli Manning.

On February 5, 2012, The New York Giants
won their fourth Superbowl

Eli Manning, for the 2nd time, was the MVP 

XLVI = 46

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