Sports Rituals

I wanna hear some of your sports related rituals. The weirder the better. I'll start off by telling my dumbest one. I don't do this anymore, but it started back in the 90's. I had to take a drink every other play or the Cowboys would start having bad plays. As you can imagine, it worked well for a few years, but the spell was broken in the late 90's. When I see those commercials about stupid rituals, I think back to that time in my life and laugh.

A couple of my more tame rituals are that I cannot record a game or watch a game that's been paused for a long time (my cousin once paused the game for like an hour for thanksgiving dinner, and I still haven't forgiven him). When I can, I watch the game on TV and listen to it on the radio because I like the homer announcers on the radio. I gotta buy a new 'game day' hat every year, and wear it with one of my jerseys during the game, even if I can't watch for some reason.

Remember, it's only weird if it doesn't work.

Ha ha thanks bro. Now I don't feel so dumb about taking a drink every other play for nearly a decade.

I thought of another one. When shit gets real in the 4th quarter, I have to grab a football and start fidgeting with it while I pace around. But i gotta be careful, because if I drop it it means my team is going to turn it over. At least, that happened a couple times and now I remember it. If I don't get up and start pacing, we have no chance of winning.

Oh and one more. I can make a kicker miss a high pressure field goal. I get up to the TV and get in his head.

I already mentioned I get a new game day hat every year. Last couple years I've been getting 2 hats because I kept forgetting the hat when I'd go to my 1 game a year at the stadium, and have to buy another. This year I got 2 at the start of the season because there were 2 I really wanted. The camouflage hat wasn't really meant to be a game day hat, but when they arrived, I liked how it looked so much that I wore it for game 1. We lost that first game, so the next game I wore the other one and we won. I was a little worried the hat might be jinxed, but tried not to think about it. I decided I'd pull it out again in november for the salute to service month.

In october I took a weekend trip and decided to wear that hat around. The trip didn't go great. Nothing huge went wrong, but little shit kept going wrong, and only while I was wearing the hat. The only example I can remember is when I stopped at a convenience store to buy peanuts and they were bad. I've never had bad peanuts before. I didn't even fucking know peanuts could go bad. I was getting concerned about this hat that I liked so much.

I decided to break whatever curse it had on it by wearing it during sex. When I'm gone for a weekend, it's gauranteed I'll either get sex or head when I get home. So I put on the hat while the wife and I were catching up and making out. Then suddenly she gets up and goes "I'm tired, I'm going to sleep". I'm like "whoa, WTF, promises were made! Get back here" I take the hat off and she lays back down on me and we make out some more. I put the hat back on and she gets up again and goes "No really, I'm going to bed now I'm tired". So I tell her about how I was trying to break the jinx on the hat and she was nonplussed. No gauranteed coming home sex for ole hoss tonight. I cut the hat up immediately and threw it away. The good news is I ordered another one and wore it last week and we still won. So it was the hat itself that was jinxed, not the style. The wife also blew me while I was wearing the new one to insure there was nothing but good vibes on it.