these are some of the most famous
superstitious beliefs in sports welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
sports curses number ten the Socceroos
witch doctor curse to ensure they won
against Rhodesia in the 1970 Mexico
World Cup qualifiers the Australian
National Association football team
hired a witch doctor to hecqs the
competition the Socceroos won the game
but were hexed themselves when they
couldn’t pay the fee not only did the
Aussie team fail to qualify that year
they also failed to qualify for every
World Cup between 1975 and 2005 from
that moment that he put the curse on
everything went wrong for the team
we took 38 hours to get to Tel Aviv
that’s the witch doctor we played 21
hours later without three of our best
players or were suddenly sick that’s the
witch doctor number 9 the curse of Marty
McSorley during 1993 Stanley Cup Finals
LA King Marty McSorley was sent to the
penalty box for an illegally curved
stick which helped the Montreal
Canadiens win the game and eventually
that year’s Stanley Cup however some
believe Habs coach Jacques Demers had
the King’s sticks secretly checked out
which would have been pretty
unsportsmanlike true or not Montreal
hasn’t won a Cup since and neither has
any other Canadian team number 8 the
Madden curse Electronic Arts had a hit
on their hands with Madden NFL in fact
it’s their best-selling sports video
game series but in 1999 the company
dropped Madden from the cover of their
game in favor of a current star from the
league ever since people have been
associating with setbacks injuries and
other bad luck the cover boys
experienced with their appearance on the
game
II a sports it’s in the game number
seven the curse of coogans bluff.the
to 1957 the New York Giants played at
Manhattan’s Polo Grounds so when the
team moved to San Francisco in 1958 they
left many disappointed baseball fans in
their wake instead of wishing them well
fans hope the team had never win a World
Series outside of New York that curse
stuck until 2010 when the Giants won in
Arlington may not be NYC but it’s still
a World Series title number six the
curse of the colonel nobody does chicken
like KFC and nobody can put a curse on
you quite like Colonel Sanders while
celebrating the Hanshin Tigers 1985 win
of the Japan championship series fans of
the baseball team allegedly dumped a
statue of the KFC founder into the river
the Tigers then placed last in the
league ten times between that fateful
year and 2003 number five the curse of
Bobby Lane though he lent the Lions to
three NFL championships Bobby Lane was
traded by Detroit to the Pittsburgh
Steelers after eight years lanes parting
gift was the proclamation that his
former team wouldn’t win another
championship for half a century whether
you believe in the curse or not the
Lions last championship title dates back
to 1957 and they’ve never even qualified
for the Super Bowl in 2008 the year the
curse of Bobby Lane was to expire the
Lions lost all 16 games number four
the curse of Billy Penn this curse
didn’t affect just one Philadelphia team
but all of the city’s pro clubs between
1987 and 2008 story goes that the curse
began when a statue of Pennsylvania
founder William Penn was eclipsed by the
one Liberty Place skyscraper it was only
broken in 2007 when another statue of
Penn was included in the building
ceremony for the even taller Comcast
center lo and behold the Phillies won
the World Series the next year so I have
bought into
from day one and now that we actually
want a cherry chip who might argue we
finally won one I can die a happy man
number three the Sports Illustrated
cover jinx there’s been so much so
called evidence of the bad luck that
follows those who graced Sports
Illustrated’s cover but some athletes
have second-guessed their decisions to
do it examples range from teams breaking
their winning streaks to fatal crashes
to career-ending games or even major
injuries
by contrast Michael Jordan’s 49 cover
appearances have done little to ruin his
reputation as one of the most successful
basketball players ever
number two the curse of the Billy Goat
with their last World Series win dating
back to 1908 the Chicago Cubs boasts the
longest title drought of any North
American pro sports team people looking
for someone to blame point to Billy
sionis and his smelly pet goat the day
they were ejected from a 1945 World
Series game the owner of the billy goat
tavern proclaimed the Cubs would never
win again so far he was right number one
the curse of the Bambino by selling Babe
Ruth to the Yankees the Red Sox may have
also sold their chances of winning the
World Series at least that’s what fans
wanted to believe was the reason behind
the Boston team’s 86 year losing streak
that began in 1918 meanwhile the Yankees
won four titles and seven pennants with
the Bambino in tow
the Red Sox finally found relief with
their 2004 World Series win
the bastard sucks
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sports-related curse do you think is
interesting be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com for more entertaining top
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superstitious beliefs in sports welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
sports curses number ten the Socceroos
witch doctor curse to ensure they won
against Rhodesia in the 1970 Mexico
World Cup qualifiers the Australian
National Association football team
hired a witch doctor to hecqs the
competition the Socceroos won the game
but were hexed themselves when they
couldn’t pay the fee not only did the
Aussie team fail to qualify that year
they also failed to qualify for every
World Cup between 1975 and 2005 from
that moment that he put the curse on
everything went wrong for the team
we took 38 hours to get to Tel Aviv
that’s the witch doctor we played 21
hours later without three of our best
players or were suddenly sick that’s the
witch doctor number 9 the curse of Marty
McSorley during 1993 Stanley Cup Finals
LA King Marty McSorley was sent to the
penalty box for an illegally curved
stick which helped the Montreal
Canadiens win the game and eventually
that year’s Stanley Cup however some
believe Habs coach Jacques Demers had
the King’s sticks secretly checked out
which would have been pretty
unsportsmanlike true or not Montreal
hasn’t won a Cup since and neither has
any other Canadian team number 8 the
Madden curse Electronic Arts had a hit
on their hands with Madden NFL in fact
it’s their best-selling sports video
game series but in 1999 the company
dropped Madden from the cover of their
game in favor of a current star from the
league ever since people have been
associating with setbacks injuries and
other bad luck the cover boys
experienced with their appearance on the
game
II a sports it’s in the game number
seven the curse of coogans bluff.the
to 1957 the New York Giants played at
Manhattan’s Polo Grounds so when the
team moved to San Francisco in 1958 they
left many disappointed baseball fans in
their wake instead of wishing them well
fans hope the team had never win a World
Series outside of New York that curse
stuck until 2010 when the Giants won in
Arlington may not be NYC but it’s still
a World Series title number six the
curse of the colonel nobody does chicken
like KFC and nobody can put a curse on
you quite like Colonel Sanders while
celebrating the Hanshin Tigers 1985 win
of the Japan championship series fans of
the baseball team allegedly dumped a
statue of the KFC founder into the river
the Tigers then placed last in the
league ten times between that fateful
year and 2003 number five the curse of
Bobby Lane though he lent the Lions to
three NFL championships Bobby Lane was
traded by Detroit to the Pittsburgh
Steelers after eight years lanes parting
gift was the proclamation that his
former team wouldn’t win another
championship for half a century whether
you believe in the curse or not the
Lions last championship title dates back
to 1957 and they’ve never even qualified
for the Super Bowl in 2008 the year the
curse of Bobby Lane was to expire the
Lions lost all 16 games number four
the curse of Billy Penn this curse
didn’t affect just one Philadelphia team
but all of the city’s pro clubs between
1987 and 2008 story goes that the curse
began when a statue of Pennsylvania
founder William Penn was eclipsed by the
one Liberty Place skyscraper it was only
broken in 2007 when another statue of
Penn was included in the building
ceremony for the even taller Comcast
center lo and behold the Phillies won
the World Series the next year so I have
bought into
from day one and now that we actually
want a cherry chip who might argue we
finally won one I can die a happy man
number three the Sports Illustrated
cover jinx there’s been so much so
called evidence of the bad luck that
follows those who graced Sports
Illustrated’s cover but some athletes
have second-guessed their decisions to
do it examples range from teams breaking
their winning streaks to fatal crashes
to career-ending games or even major
injuries
by contrast Michael Jordan’s 49 cover
appearances have done little to ruin his
reputation as one of the most successful
basketball players ever
number two the curse of the Billy Goat
with their last World Series win dating
back to 1908 the Chicago Cubs boasts the
longest title drought of any North
American pro sports team people looking
for someone to blame point to Billy
sionis and his smelly pet goat the day
they were ejected from a 1945 World
Series game the owner of the billy goat
tavern proclaimed the Cubs would never
win again so far he was right number one
the curse of the Bambino by selling Babe
Ruth to the Yankees the Red Sox may have
also sold their chances of winning the
World Series at least that’s what fans
wanted to believe was the reason behind
the Boston team’s 86 year losing streak
that began in 1918 meanwhile the Yankees
won four titles and seven pennants with
the Bambino in tow
the Red Sox finally found relief with
their 2004 World Series win
the bastard sucks
do you agree with our list which
sports-related curse do you think is
interesting be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com for more entertaining top
10s
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