Mike & Molly – A Tribute to the Career of Mike McCarthy
My post on the firing of Mike McCarthy
Mike & Molly (Wikipedia) (starring Melissa McCarthy)
Special tip of the hat to Dan Behrendt of The Mindless Freaks blog for this wonderful lead.
In my post on McCarthy linked above, I mentioned how he was fired after the Packers fell to 4-7-1, exactly 4711 days after he was interviewed:
The first episode of Mike & Molly aired 1471 days after Mike McCarthy’s first game:
The 47th Prime number is 211, so coupled with the tie (represented by the 1 above), this could read 2111
McCarthy was 20111 days old when he was fired:
On the same day he was fired with a 4-7-1 record, the Steelers, who play in McCarthy’s hometown of Pittsburgh and lost to McCarthy’s Packers in Super Bowl XLV, fell to 7-4-1
Incredibly, the man who plays Mike in Mike & Molly and is married to Melissa McCarthy, Billy Gardell, was not only ALSO born in Pittsburgh – but it was a span of exactly 2111 days after Mike McCarthy was:
The firing of Mike McCarthy was heavily-centered around the number 13. He was fired after Week 13 in his 13th season, 103 days after the anniversary of the eclipse in the NFL’s 99th season. “Thirteen” = 99 (Ordinal)
Melissa McCarthy sums to 169

169 is 13 squared
Her co-star’s last name has 130 gematria

Episode 13 of Mike & Molly aired on the date written 1/3
This was 1 month, 3 days before Mike McCarthy won his only Super Bowl appearance:
The show’s 6th and final season lasted only 13 episodes. 13 is the 6th Prime number.
The season finale aired May 16th, 2016, a span of exactly 133 weeks before McCarthy was fired:
Billy Gardell was born on the date leaving 133 days in the year ’69![]()

Melissa McCarthy was born in 1970
197 is the 45th Prime number
Mike McCarthy won Super Bowl 45
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The only other Super Bowl the Packers won outside of the first two was Super Bowl 31
The 31st Prime number is 127
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Melissa McCarthy was born on the date leaving 127 days in the year:![]()
Mike & Molly had aired its series premiere just a few months earlier, exactly 139 days before the Super Bowl:
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The show’s premiere was 73 days before December 2nd, the date Mike McCarthy got fired this year:

Mike and Melissa McCarthy’s birthdays are separated by 289 days, or a span of 77 in the other direction:


289 = 17×17
The show’s first episode aired a span of 1717 days after McCarthy was interviewed for the job:
McCarthy was fired on Aaron Rodgers’ birthday. Both Rodgers and Brett Favre, the other Hall of Fame quarterback McCarthy has coached, have Reduction gematria of 93
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93 is a Saturn number
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The Packers play at Lambeau Field

The series finale of Mike & Molly aired exactly 930 days before McCarthy was fired


