I think any man who loves sports and is passionate about a particular team has some sports superstitions or rituals that help guarantee his team a win. If I am standing and my team is doing well, I will remain standing or if I'm holding my tongue in a particular way I will not change until the streak stops.
A current one I have going is that a friend of mine who really has little interest in basketball or the Mavericks has watched every game in the playoffs that the Mavericks have won and not watched the ones they have lost. I am going to do everything to make sure he watches Game 6 tonight.
With the ebb and flow of sports, most sports superstitions run their course pretty quickly. The longest running one I had started in the first quarter of Super Bowl XXVII between the Cowboys and the Bills. Buffalo scored first and in my disgust I threw the Cowboys hat I was wearing across the room. Well, Dallas came back to score and win the game and I just knew the fact that I took my hat off is what led to that victory.
So, that started a long running tradition of me not wearing any Cowboy apparel on game day and because of me the Cowboys were able to win 3 out of the next 4 Super Bowls. The tradition finally came to an end in 1997 when they went 6 - 10 and missed the playoffs.
Go Mavs!
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