This is Jinx
by tigers and chiefs fan on Sep 18, 2009 11:41 AM CDT
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Many of you are familiar with JINXes because you perpetually jinx Missouri and it's great players.
I pretty much walked through life without a care and without a "jinx" in my life until I met my husband Steve. I was a fledgling lawyer and he ran his own business. Meeting at a Chiefs game sparked a love affair with the Chiefs. It was only until I viewed my first Tiger basketball game with his friends that I learned this was an insanely superstitious bunch.
At that time, I was mostly with Stevie - "Superstition ain't the way."
But this group had rituals to outdo anything I had ever seen - running around the block, forcing one of the crew to leave and listen to the game on his radio in the car (forbotten to return unless the Tigers retook the lead), blocked phone numbers on game day and more.
The Chase Daniel era brought a welcome change to these Tiger fans. They felt confident in pre-conference games - no longer bedeviled by the likes of Troy & Bowling Green. But maybe I missed part of the ritual, part of the superstition. So when said husband informed me that our Beaker friends were coming over for dinner and the Bowling Green game, I replied, "Oh really?" He pooh-poohed me with, "I don't believe in any of those jinxes any more."
We prepared a lovely dinner for our Jayhawk friends and settled in to watch the game. Things did not seem to be going well. Blaine "Sermon on the Mount" Gabbert seemed to be feeling pressure when none was there. In fact, I daresay Blaine's blainess was bleak. And you may give me -1000 Blaineys, but my dire warnings of alll things Blaine went unheeded and we were rewarded with a humiliating "Fail" in the first half.
So rather than wait and see what the Tigers were going to do, I jumped off the couch and started cleaning the kitchen. I thought that luck would turn our way if my kitchen was clean, and I refused to watch another minute of Tiger football until that shit was sparkling.
And lo & behold, the Tigers made a stop and began their comeback.
We also benefitted from the Hustle & Flow reference from Zaire Taylor during the halftime show which I correctly predicted as a gamechanger for our Tigers.
So poo-poo to you who poo-poo me for my superstition but if I had not gone into that kitchen and cleaned it up and if they hadn't done that spot with Zaire & the bball team, then the Tigers would have probably lost.
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I see you one Stevie's "Superstition"
And raise you another:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX-GJ46kiCo
And hopefully this spawns a series of posts that use the tag, “Does this earn me any Blaineys?”
by RPT on Sep 18, 2009 12:00 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
Another aweseom Stevie.
"Watching TV this morning, even Chipper Jones picked against us, and he plays baseball," Missouri linebacker Sean Weatherspoon said of the Atlanta Brave, who was a guest on ESPN’s College GameDay.
by tigers and chiefs fan on Sep 18, 2009 12:02 PM CDT up reply actions
OK, not a Steve
But a whole Continent!!
Feathered Hair to the Rescue!
I'M TWEETING (huh? http://twitter.com/Ausgiano)
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are" -Pig Killer
by Mizzou Grad on Sep 18, 2009 12:20 PM CDT up reply actions
WOW Space Camp Reference !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some one has their A game going on today
Just Bravo, Bravo Sir!!!!!
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by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Sep 18, 2009 12:12 PM CDT up reply actions
How can one not be...
superstitious and be a Mizzou fan? I read this book that listed the worst calls in sports history, and two of the top 5 went against Mizzou. ( You know which two )
It comes with the territory.
If anything the superstitions become routine, a cannon betwixt friends sharing the love and heartbreak of their sports team. It makes the game funnier, more involved, and ‘special’ win lose or draw.
I for one am glad you cleaned your kitchen and allowed the blaineness to flow. Though I don’t particularly believe in superstitions, I surely have the rituals between friends similar to what you have listed. These are to be welcomed, and embraced.
I did not do my shot gun sunrise last week, and this is also the reason for a Mizzou slow start, it will not happen again.
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by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Sep 18, 2009 12:21 PM CDT reply actions
Indeed
Well put.
"Watching TV this morning, even Chipper Jones picked against us, and he plays baseball," Missouri linebacker Sean Weatherspoon said of the Atlanta Brave, who was a guest on ESPN’s College GameDay.
by tigers and chiefs fan on Sep 18, 2009 1:34 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I specifically remember the Baylor game last year.
I got home from a band thing and it was about mid third quarter. I turned on the radio (it wasn’t on the TV) and I couldn’t believe mizzou was losing. So I listened it got worse, I stop listening for about 20 minutes, nothing really happened. Until suddenly mizzou got a huge play with about 10 minutes left in the 4th. So I decided that me standing exactly where I was Was infact good luck. So I stood there for the rest of the game, About an hour, without moving a muscle. Because I was so scared that if I moved at all mizzou would somehow lose. But I didn’t move and mizzou got the W. So either I’m very supersticious or just insane.
"The field mouse is fast but the owl sees at night"
Kind of on-topic...but I was extremely superstitious when I played baseball
back in sixth grade, my little league team (with Ohio State’s Evan Turner on it) went undefeated in the regular season. We won our first playoff game, but then my mom washed my hat. We then lost our next two games and were eliminated. So there.
Chicago White Sox Examiner — I wish I could cuss right now.
Superstition is always awesome
But I think this is the greatest version of a song I have ever heard. And it was on Sesame Street!
by Sheriff Blalock on Sep 18, 2009 4:57 PM CDT reply actions
Sounds to me like a good way to change your luck
would have been to kick the jayhawk out of your house.
Respect and honor your opponent, unless that opponent is a fictional bird. In which case you hit him until he falls, kick him until dead and burn the remains.
by TigerinNC on Sep 18, 2009 9:14 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
Ahhh, pretty much
but that wasn’t an option.
Alas, her father had recently passed away, so I couldn’t give her a ton of shit.
"Watching TV this morning, even Chipper Jones picked against us, and he plays baseball," Missouri linebacker Sean Weatherspoon said of the Atlanta Brave, who was a guest on ESPN’s College GameDay.
by tigers and chiefs fan on Sep 18, 2009 10:07 PM CDT up reply actions
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