Sports superstitions are stupid.

[chimp3]

When I was a kid in Boston my Dad took me to a Red Sox game. On the street outside the left outfield wall an office building had numerous windows busted out. My Dad said that the windows were broken out by home run hits. If the home run was by the visiting team the business fixed the window. If the homer was by the Sox they left the window broken until the end of the season. Supposed to bring good luck to the business.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Oh wow. Straight draw poker? That's really old school.

I play Hold 'Em.

That's alright - everyone should have the right to play a game that looks like poker...

Boru

[Brian37]

When I was a kid in Boston my Dad took me to a Red Sox game. On the street outside the left outfield wall an office building had numerous windows busted out. My Dad said that the windows were broken out by home run hits. If the home run was by the visiting team the business fixed the window. If the homer was by the Sox they left the window broken until the end of the season. Supposed to bring good luck to the business.

Humans are stupid. I should say, our species flawed perceptions lead us to very bad conclusions and needless anxiety.

[Brian37]

The idea that something magical, can give you luck or cause you to loose is fucking stupid. 

In a very real sense this is the same flawed logic that leads people to make god claims. In evolution what most people do not realize is that MOST ATTEMPTS at life fail. It is a false perception that because of the amount of abundant life we see, most humans who don't understand evolution, think a magic hand had something to do with it.

No, for that one sperm that gets to the egg, there are millions more in that emission that end up doing nothing. For every child born, there are far more female eggs in her lifetime that end up in a period.

Well in pro sports too, there are only two teams, say in the NBA, or MLB, OR NFL OR NHL out of 30-32 teams, only one will become the winner.

What is appealing about the Cubs win even to non baseball fans, is the concept of the underdog. Religions in our species history get started for much the same reason. You have a person or a minority group of humans whom lack the same resources as the majority. Our species empathy for the minority, is really no different than the empathy a parent has for their kid if they are a baby, or why we respond to when bigger kids bully smaller kids.


There are far more many pro sports teams who DON'T win the Championship and only one in each sport, each year, that does. Cleveland was not "cursed" in it's loss anymore than the Cubs not having a Championship since 1908 was a "curse".

Sports superstitions are as stupid to me as when a player prays for a score as if a god should be concerned with rich jocks or their owners when people die in Africa and the middle east from famine and war.

I get it, sports is fun, and that is OK, but DONT BE FUCKING STUPID about why wins and losses happen. Math, skill, and some luck(not magic luck).

Heh, you're just mad that nothing you do could ever make the Redskins good 

I must have stepped on a crack, broke my mother's back. When a problem comes along Skins don't whip it. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_QLzthSkfM

[AceBoogie]

Being from Cleveland, I find the concept of the Cleveland Curse hilarious.

Even though I've always been a pretty athletic guy, I find most sports to be pretty silly in general and quite honestly I don't follow any of them. Even as much as I'm into Brazilian Jiu Jitsu I don't watch the UFC or anything. If I'm interested in a sport I go out and do it, not sit around and watch other grown men do it. Being a sports fan has always seemed bizarre to me.

With that being said, I look at superstitions in sports the same way I look at superstitions among gamblers. It's something that allows people who are completely NOT superstitious to hold on to to allow them to think they can get some sort of upper hand on the opponent. Whether their opponent is the Chicago Cubs or the casino Downtown. It's all silly.

With that being said I don't mean to offend anyone by saying sports are silly... but think about it...

You spend your afternoons sitting on your couch watching other grown men in tights run with inflated balls over imaginary lines. Just saying.