The Washington Redskins Presidential Election Conspiracy..

[Murdock]

Has anyone read this?


Our desire to understand and assert some control over the world around us is often manifested by our attempts to find predictive signs that enable us to prognosticate events — even when there is no seeming connection between predictor and event. Sometimes one natural phenomenon supposedly forecasts another, as in the belief that a groundhog's seeing his shadow on February 2 portends another six weeks of winter. In other instances the linkage is between affairs of mankind, as in the superstition that the winner of football's Super Bowl augurs that year's stock market performance (or vice-versa).

A recent item of this ilk maintains that the results of the last game played at home by the NFL's Washington Redskins (a football team based in the national capital, Washington, D.C.) before the U.S. presidential elections has accurately foretold the winner of the last fifteen of those political contests, going back to 1944. If the Redskins win their last home game before the election, the party that occupies the White House continues to hold it; if the Redskins lose that last home game, the challenging party's candidate unseats the incumbent president. While we don't presume there is anything more than a random correlation between these factors, it is the case that the pattern has held true even longer than claimed, stretching back over seventeen presidential elections since 1936:

http://snopes.com/sports/football/election.asp

[Burma Jones]

1. Thank Heavens my favorite team.........

Is so stinking awful this year...............

[soothsayer]

Yeah, some silver lining on our dark cloud of a season, lol n/t

[denverbill]

2. Go Packers. n/t

[underpants]

3. Exactly-October 31st Packers @ Redskins

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/schedule

Washington will be coming off a bye week.

[nickinSTL]

4. 'doh!

Does this mean I have to root for the Packers?

edited due to stupidity...didn't read carefully enough :D

[underpants]

6. Yes

Yes it does

[nickinSTL]

7. Speaking as a Bears fan...

NOOOOOO!

I will, anyway...but it goes against every fiber of my being...

[Murdock]

5. Yes..

We root for the Packers like there is no tommrow.. (I hate the Packers btw I'm a Buccaneers fan) but on Oct 31st.. I'm going to be pulling for the Packers like I've never cheered before..

[joeybee12]

8. Another reason to cheer for the Packers--Gibbs is a right-wing nut!

Go Packers!

Now that my Giants have shown their true colors, I ain't loyal to anyone this year--might as root for the Packers.