Green Bay vs. Washington: Who are you gonna root for?

[HFishbine]

From Snopes
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Claim: The outcome of Washington Redskins football games has correctly predicted the winner of every U.S. presidential election since 1936.

Status: True.

Origins: 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

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

[Bush was AWOL]

1. Green Bay

obviously

[HFishbine]

3. I'm delighted

I have a buddy who's a BIG TIME Packers fan and a BIG TIME Bush fan. I can't wait to torment him with this little tidbit.

[Debi]

2. Been a Pack fan from the day I was born...

in Oshkosh!!!

[vademocrat]

4. Been a Redskins fan since the day I was born

but I'll take a skins loss for a Kerry victory!!


:shrug:

[Voltaire]

5. I'm an Eagles Fan

So here's hoping the Packers give me a twofer

[Lexingtonian]

6. the Red Sox, of course!

Hey, Presidents and football teams come and go, hapless baseball franchises are forever!

:D

[Lizzie Borden]

7. Go Pack!!

n/t

[kanrok]

8. Holy shit!

I have to pull for the Pack? At least Ms. Grumpy will be happy. Oh, sweet irony.

[fishnfla]

9. C-H-E-E-S-E!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

never underestimate the power of cheese

[WI_DEM]

10. Green Bay, of course

[batchdem04]

11. Skins fan....

...but I gotta root against them in this game. Too much is riding on this election for just one game. Our season is lost anyways. Bad thing is that Skins have a BYE so they will be healthy.

[fishnfla]

13. well the pack has a bye too

they play dallas ;)

[kerryin2004]

15. Yeah, GB is just doing so much better than Dallas this year...

Dallas is going to kick GB Pecker ass, on their own field!!!

[Hawkeye-X]

16. Well, at least you got Portis.

Thanks for Champ!

Hawkeye-X

[NervousRex]

12. Born in Titletown

in 1967...will always back the Pack...it's innate.

[RevCheesehead]

14. duh!

[Arkana]

17. Good Lord

Green Bay then, even though I despise the Packers.

[The Sushi Bandit]

18. Hawai'i Warriors!!

Picture of the fans @ a Green Bay/Redskin game