What is the most ridiculous superstition you suscribe to?

[Redneck Socialist]

I am thinking specifically in terms of helping your favorite sports team win. The best I have heard so far comes to me second hand. One of the kids that works for me told me that a kid in his class came in the other day holding a baseball. The teacher asked him what it was for and he said that he was holding it when the sox won game three against the A's so he has vowed not to put it down. The best part is that he tapes it to his hand when he sleeps.

[BBradley]

1. Hehe, I refuse to watch the Flyers with my dad.

He's such bad luck...

[PittPoliSci]

4. i refuse to read the news about the Pens...

cause its never good, god do i wish i lived in NJ or Philiadelphia now.

[JackSwift]

2. I believe in voting and democracy

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Some people say I'm a dreamer.
But I'm not the only one.

I hope some day you will join us
And then the world will be as one.

[SiobhanClancy]

3. I wear my Red Sox cap

wherever I'm watching the game,Fenway or even sitting at home by myself(like now).I always have some pretzels,in honor of my Dad,who always ate them watching the game,and who waited his entire life to see the Sox win the World Series.

[MrScorpio]

5. If I talk nicely to things that are faulty, they'll work right

This has worked for me in the past.

Another is for me to repeatedly say that I hope for something under my breath.

[Ramsey]

6. That the world is just

Hmmm, not much evidence of that lately

[kodi]

7. if i dont bathe, i smell,

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[Liberal Veteran]

11. Well...no...if you don't bathe, you stink...

everyone else smells.

Just a little clarification from the grammar police. :)

[kodi]

19. see, i told you it was just a superstition.

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[HEyHEY]

8. Always turn the hockey game on really loud

It seems like whenever it's low the Canucks lose :shrug:

Also, whenever they are in the shits...leave the room...then they'll score!

[DS1]

9. work will set you free

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[NaMeaHou]

10. When the day comes that mangy female bears

grow their hair back, and
a lousy actor from another country will govern CA

The Cubs will finish off the Sox in five.

So it is written, so it shall be.

[Awsi Dooger]

12. I turn off the TV and follow the score with a beeper box

This is only when my 'Canes are playing on TV and are in trouble with 5 minutes left or less, and I'm taping the game. I will turn off the TV and turn on my sportsticker box, which gives updates every two minutes.

I started this a few years ago and it only failed once, vs. Ohio State in last year's Fiesta Bowl. But that wasn't even a true test. I was watching the game at my parents' home in Miami, so I couldn't turn off the TV with everyone else watching. Instead, I grabbed my sportsticker and took a walk around the nearby lake, listening to the reactions from households watching the game.

There were so many cheers from the first OT that I was sure Miami had taken the lead, but I didn't understand the brief roar that followed in a few minutes. There was no followup celebration, no one coming outside to honk horns. Of course, the mini hoopla turned out to be the controversial pass interference play on 4th down with Miami ahead, 24-17. When I ducked inside my parents' home my dad filled me in with disgust, and rewound for a quick replay. I took another lap around the lake during the second OT, with plenty of silence then cries of injustice with people leaving their homes.

I concede it's somewhat wimpy and pathetic. But it worked again vs. West Virginia last week, and with a tape I eventually see every play. Might have to break out the 'Canes survival strategy again this Saturday in Tallahassee.

[Shanty Oilish]

13. Stop looking for a thing and it'll come out of hiding

...as soon as you don't need it, have made do with something else, or just don't give a damn any longer.

[VOX]

14. During Game 6 of the 2002 WS, I sat in a chair in the dining room...

Listening to, but not looking at the TV in the living room, where my wife was rooting away for our Angels. When Spiezio hit his big HR to cut the Giants' lead to 5-3 in the 7th, I really stuck to that chair. I wan't going to mess with the mojo (as if my sitting in that chair had anything to do with anything).

For Game 7, I sat in the same chair in the dining room, to great results. Too bad I didn't actually see the game! So I bought the DVD.

Silly stuff.

[tsakshaug]

15. I don't watch

I think the best way to help the sox is for me not to watch or listen. When I do, they lose. I missed the last three games agianst the A's and did not watch last night. So, how am I doing?

[Byronic]

16. The oddest thing....

and I don't know where I heard it but it has stuck in my memory for years. Walking over drains. Yes, it's a complicated matter. Somewhere someone told me that if you walk over three drains that you will have a terrible sex life and if you continue happily strolling over three drains you will become infertile.

So if I see three drains in a row I have to walk around them. Apparently if you walk over two drains it's lucky, but, hey, why take the risk?

How did this whole idea start? Was there some European aristocrat in the Victorian era, the last of a noble and ancient line, desperate for an heir, wondering why on earth his wife couldn't get pregnant to save the family name? I can see him fretting in a crumbling castle or sprawling country house, head in his hands, pondering on the question. Why can't he have that elusive heir:

Was it because he walked over three drains that morning, or was it, perhaps because he got his bits blown off at the Battle of Balaklava?

Of course, it must be the drains.

[Bunny]

17. If I buy a lottery ticket, I do not watch the actual drawing.

That would jinx my chances of winning. I always wait till the next morning to look for it on the news or see it in the paper. So far I have won exactly ZERO big jackpots this way, but I'm quite certain that if I start watching the drawings, my odds will become even worse.

[Skittles]

18. KNOCK ON WOOD

I DO IT FREQUENTLY

[sexybomber]

20. Here's mine

My favorite sports team is the one I row for... Ithaca College Men's Varsity Lightweight Crew.

We figure Samson (the biblical figure) was very strong, and Samson had a lot of hair. Therefore, none of us shave the day of or day before a race. Strange, huh?