Those who look for these coincidental occurrences had to go to "home game" victories to find this mystical relationship. Apparently no team has won or lost games before the election which would have been even more definative. I'm proud that the Packers will be the team to help dispell this illogical musing.
Well if Boston Red Sox's curse of the Bambino was broken so can this....By the way the Redskin started this when they were in Boston
USA quoting the same story:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/2004-10-31-redskins-politics_x.htm
"It turns out the source on which we relied for "Redskins rule" got it wrong: The rule posits a correlation between the Washington Redskins' last home game before a presidential election and the election's outcome, not the last game. The 1996 loss to the Bills that we cited yesterday was a road game, so it doesn't count.Well, fair enough. But what isn't as widely known is that the Redskins haven't played in Washington since 1996, when they began playing "home" games in Maryland. The team played its last true home game Dec. 22, 1996, beating the Dallas Cowboys 37-10. If the Redskins rule--victory means a win for the incumbent party--applied, Al Gore would now be president.
The inescapable conclusion is that the Redskins rule doesn't predict the actual election, only the popular vote."
The Maryland Redskins
It turns out the source on which we relied for "Redskins rule" got it wrong: The rule posits a correlation between the Washington Redskins' last home game before a presidential election and the election's outcome, not the last game. The 1996 loss to the Bills that we cited yesterday was a road game, so it doesn't count.
Well, fair enough. But what isn't as widely known is that the Redskins haven't played in Washington since 1996, when they began playing "home" games in Maryland. The team played its last true home game Dec. 22, 1996, beating the Dallas Cowboys 37-10. If the Redskins rule--victory means a win for the incumbent party--applied, Al Gore would now be president.
The inescapable conclusion is that the Redskins rule doesn't predict the actual election, only the popular vote.
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If the Texans win their last game before the election, and one of the candidates is a Texan, he wins. Hasn't failed yet.
Worth? ... Soemone needs to contact that partisan political hack, Oberman at MSNBC, and inform him that his little effort to lie for his demi-god has been blown wide open. Keith is typical of the partisan BM (big media) stinking up the airways.
On a slightly different note, Maybe the Boston Redsox Championship will ease the pain of Kerry being obliterated at the polls.