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Originally posted by: Bossk
It wasn't a Redskins curse so much as a Redskins predictor of the outcome. There was also a Red Sox predictor. In a nutshell...
Since 1936, whenever the Redskins won their game just before a presidential election, the incumbent party would win the presidency. If they lost, the challenging party would win. It was absolutely true, too. Until this year. The Packers beat the Redskins, but Kerry (the challenger) still lost. Oh well.
For the Red Sox, whenever they have played in a World Series that has fallen during a presidential election year, the Red Sox winning has predicted failure for the incumbent party in the election. Alas, this also proved false this year. This has only been the case three times in the past with the last one being something like 1912 or 1916. The Skins predictor has been valid every election since 1936. Pretty good odds that were, obviously, defied this time around.
I did not know that. Where did u learn that?