GO PANTHERS!
As a Giant fan, I always root for the Redskins to lose, this time even more so.
I too am a suffering redskins fan, lol. If it means Romney wins, I can take another redskins loss, kind of used to it by now.
The Redskin rule no longer applies.
this rule was broken in 2004 when the Skins lost but GWB won....
The Panthers aren’t very good this year, so I don’t think they’re going to win, but there are always upsets. The Panthers are in the same division as my New Orleans Saints, but the Saints really aren’t contenders this year, but even if they were, and they had a chance of the Super Bowl, I would rather have the Saints miss out than have Obama for 4 more years. Besides, didn’t this streak break in 2004 when the Redskins lost and George W. won anyway? And where are they playing? Doesn’t it have something to do with whenter or not the Redskins are playing at home or not?
Forget the last sentence. I see that they are playing at home.
Robert Griffin is from my hometown, so I am pulling for the Redskins. I am counting on Obarky’s losing, either way.
I would love to see some of these superstitions broken. Redskins winning. Pheh. Number of halloween masks sold. Pheh. Grade school children voting. Pheh. It’s just more media manipulation to formulate their predetermined outcome.
If the historic Red Sox WS triumph wasn’t an omen for a Kerry win in 2004, then nothing that happens in the NFL, or any other sport, has any political meaning. JMHO.
Fwiw the Redskins lost to the Packers in 2004, but we all know how that turned out. Funny thing though, I was at the game at Soldier Field last week and the Panthers almost kicked the Bear’s asses I wouldn’t be shocked to see them get some range on the Skins this week.
I want obummer to lose BIG but I’m a 40 year + fan of the Redskins and I don’t want to see them lose. Oh, what a dilemma!
THE REDSKINS FACTOR
If the Washington Redskins win their game against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday, then President Obama will win the election. That is the learned opinion of one Steve Hirdt, an Elias Sports Bureau executive who developed his intriguing “Redskin Rule” upon discovering a correlation between the team’s results and presidential election results 12 years ago.“I was shocked to see it lined up exactly right, that whenever the Redskins won their last home game prior to the presidential election, the incumbent party retained the White House, and whenever the Redskins lost their last home game prior to the election, the out-of-power party won the White House,” Mr. Hirdt tells ESPN.
The rule held true for all 15 presidential elections from 1940 to 1996, following the team’s move to Washington from Boston in 1937, he says, though he had to tweak it in 2000 to accommodate the runoff between George W. Bush and Al Gore.
“Redskins Rule 2.0 established that when the popular vote winner does not win the election, the impact of the Redskins game on the subsequent presidential election gets flipped. So, with that, the Redskins‘ loss in 2004 signaled that the incumbent would remain in the White House,” reasons Mr. Hirdt, adding that the rule returned to its old standards in 2008 when Washington lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers. The rule is “18 for 18” predicting the presidential elections since 1940, he concludes.
“As if Robert Griffin III and Cam Newton didn’t already have enough pressure,” observes ESPN’s Bill Hofheimer, an analyst and spokesman for the sports network.
I am a life-long Redskins fan and have seen them play at RFK and FedEx Field. Go, Panthers!!
Redskins lost 21 to 13 against the Panthers, Romney’s gonna win. I’ll have an early Jameson.