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The View from Beyond the Shoe: Buckeye Superstition
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Why are we superstitious? What was programmed into our brains at a young age to make us think that doing something now will ensure success in an event we have no real power over? Maybe Einstein was onto something when he defended insanity.
The world of sports is littered with stories of people that do certain things in certain ways…because they believe it will change the outcome of their upcoming game. In baseball, people avoid stepping on the chalk of the foul lines when they go into or out of the dugout. Boxers avoid spending the night with their significant others the night before a fight to avoid losing. NASCAR drivers for years would avoid green car paint jobs…because they were bad luck.
What about fans? What superstitions do you have to ensure your team wins this weekend? How are you going to make sure you do everything in your power to assist the Buckeyes in beating BGSU this weekend?
I’ve seen nearly every kind of superstition you can imagine. I will, on Thursday of this week, decide on the exact clothing I will wear every Saturday this fall. If I can’t wear the same shirt, Urban may forget the game plan he devised. I don’t know how he knows when I mess up but I know it happens. Ask Fickell…I lost my lucky shirt after his first game. You can thank me for the worst season at OSU in 100 years. I personally blaming myself for us ending up in the Gator Bowl that year.
For me, it starts before the first game. I pick out what jersey or shirt I will wear and I stick with it for the entire year. On Friday, I have the exact same Nike OSU Polo I will wear to work every week the day before the Silver Bullets take the field. On game day, I will watch the band take the field and I will watch the ball get teed up. I will then walk out of the room, turn my back, and/or plug my ears. I can’t watch the opening kickoff, no matter where I am watching the game.
Why do I do this? I have no idea. I know the polo shirt started with work. It’s casual Friday and I have to have my Scarlet and Gray on before I end my professional duties each week. I blame our own Brandon for the kickoff thing. It started years ago in California with him…if I see the kickoff…we lose the game. It has happened more than once and from then on it was set in stone.
I have actually gone to other people’s houses to watch games, and wore clothes other than my “lucky” shirt, only to watch the worst first half of a game ever. I had to leave a good friend’s birthday party once, at halftime, so I could get the correct shirt on.
I know I am not alone. I have watched a good friend take his shirt off at halftime…douse it in alcohol, and burn it because the thing was just not lucky enough.
I won’t ask what superstitions you have. Some of them are ones that you simply can’t or shouldn’t tell people. All I ask is…are you ready to do your part, no matter how stupid others think it may be?
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Mike Meals via our good friends at Buckeye Battle Cry
Visit their fantastic blog and read the full article (and so much more) here
Why are we superstitious? What was programmed into our brains at a young age to make us think that doing something now will ensure success in an event we have no real power over? Maybe Einstein was onto something when he defended insanity.
The world of sports is littered with stories of people that do certain things in certain ways…because they believe it will change the outcome of their upcoming game. In baseball, people avoid stepping on the chalk of the foul lines when they go into or out of the dugout. Boxers avoid spending the night with their significant others the night before a fight to avoid losing. NASCAR drivers for years would avoid green car paint jobs…because they were bad luck.
What about fans? What superstitions do you have to ensure your team wins this weekend? How are you going to make sure you do everything in your power to assist the Buckeyes in beating BGSU this weekend?
I’ve seen nearly every kind of superstition you can imagine. I will, on Thursday of this week, decide on the exact clothing I will wear every Saturday this fall. If I can’t wear the same shirt, Urban may forget the game plan he devised. I don’t know how he knows when I mess up but I know it happens. Ask Fickell…I lost my lucky shirt after his first game. You can thank me for the worst season at OSU in 100 years. I personally blaming myself for us ending up in the Gator Bowl that year.
For me, it starts before the first game. I pick out what jersey or shirt I will wear and I stick with it for the entire year. On Friday, I have the exact same Nike OSU Polo I will wear to work every week the day before the Silver Bullets take the field. On game day, I will watch the band take the field and I will watch the ball get teed up. I will then walk out of the room, turn my back, and/or plug my ears. I can’t watch the opening kickoff, no matter where I am watching the game.
Why do I do this? I have no idea. I know the polo shirt started with work. It’s casual Friday and I have to have my Scarlet and Gray on before I end my professional duties each week. I blame our own Brandon for the kickoff thing. It started years ago in California with him…if I see the kickoff…we lose the game. It has happened more than once and from then on it was set in stone.
I have actually gone to other people’s houses to watch games, and wore clothes other than my “lucky” shirt, only to watch the worst first half of a game ever. I had to leave a good friend’s birthday party once, at halftime, so I could get the correct shirt on.
I know I am not alone. I have watched a good friend take his shirt off at halftime…douse it in alcohol, and burn it because the thing was just not lucky enough.
I won’t ask what superstitions you have. Some of them are ones that you simply can’t or shouldn’t tell people. All I ask is…are you ready to do your part, no matter how stupid others think it may be?
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