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| − | + | Admittedly, some people go to extremes. Here's my friend Bob Wallace's e-mail deconstruction of his food restrictions during Eagles games: For instance, caviar. I bought some caviar, creme fraiche potato pancakes for the game, but decided they could be bad luck didn't eat any of it. Nachos are good luck, but chips salsa aren't. Shrimp is good luck, clams are BAD luck. Many snacks are neutral. And beer. Rolling Rock beer is good luck (nice green <a href=http://www.avanttravel.com/page.php?sale=Christian-Louboutin-China>Christian Louboutin China</a> bottles, no labels) UNLESS we are playing the Steelers, Cleveland or Cincinnati. Yuengling is mostly good luck, but not always. Corona/Dos Equis are neutral. (On tap they are actually good luck.) Any light beer is bad luck. (And don't even think about Sam Adams for the Super Bowl.) Eagles bobblehead on the food table is good luck if you don't mess with it too much. And never touch an offensive player bobblehead while the defense is on the field. There's more: When the Eagles are losing in the fourth quarter, I play Irish drinking songs try to force my cat, Phoebe, to watch the game. If I can keep her in the room, the Eagles will come back win. If she runs away, they lose. Also, I can't watch all 4 quarters on the same TV. Ideally it's the 1st quarter in the bedroom, the 2nd quarter in the kitchen the 2nd half in the TV room upstairs. Sometimes I skip the bedroom, but the game has to be on all TVs anyway. And all radios have to be tuned to WYSP <flagship>station for the Eagles] even though they are off. If they are getting killed, I switch to the radio, but the results of that are spotty. Scary, isn't it? Especially if you're Phoebe. But I like the way his mind works. Besides the quiz, my most dreaded bad luck charm is my Chuck Bednarik No. 60 Eagles jersey. The team never has won when I wore that jersey, perhaps because of the animosity Bednarik holds toward the Eagles' ownership. I keep it buried deep in my drawer, like nuclear waste. My battery-powered, wing-flapping eagle, originally part of an Eagles hat and now hanging from our overhead fan, is good luck and can't be disturbed, which is too bad, because I'd like to wear it to work this week. Other good luck charms include my cheesesteak head, my wife's Donovan McNabb bobblehead, our Arizona vortex rocks, my Eagles socks, and wings and beer. I'm particularly happy about that last one. We're in uncharted territory at this point, so I can't be certain about the reach of our powers. As Wallace cautioned, It's the Super Bowl the whole world is watching, so I have less direct control over the game than normal. I understand that. Still, I'm taking no chances. Sorry, Chuck.Jan. 1, 2009 Many people underrate <a href=http://www.avanttravel.com/page.php?sale=Michael-Kors-Sweaters>Michael Kors Sweaters</a> their personal responsibility for the success of their sports teams. This is a mistake I never make. Throughout any given season, I carefully monitor the effect my garments have on team performance. For example, I've had a great Chuck Bednarik Eagles jersey for some years. This thing is death on Eagles teams. Whenever I've worn it, they've lost. I rarely get it out any more. My daughter got me a Reggie White Eagles jersey for my last birthday, and I love it, both because White was my favorite Eagle ever and because, well, it says White on the back. But this jersey has had mixed results this season, and I stopped wearing it on game days. In fact, given the team's erratic performances this season, I never came up with a reliable sartorial formula. Until last weekend. My parents got me a midnight green Donovan McNabb jersey for Christmas. Much as I admire McNabb, he's not my favorite Eagle. I'm a Brian Dawkins man. But it's a cool jersey. I pulled it on just before the games started Sunday, adding my Eagles socks for good measure. Then I settled into my La-Z-Boy. You non-fans need to understand that the Eagles' playoff hopes were pretty much dead going into the day, thanks to a horrible loss to the Redskins last week. In order for the Eagles' late afternoon game with Dallas to have playoff relevance for Philadelphia, the lowly Oakland Raiders would have to beat the very good Tampa Bay Buccaneers -- who were at home -- and either the Bears had to lose to the Houston Texans or the Vikings had to lose to the Giants. If those things happened, the Eagles could climb over Dallas for a playoff spot with a victory. Astoundingly, the Raiders came back from a 10-point deficit and beat the Bucs. When the Bears lost to the Texans, the Eagles were back in it. Even in the wake of those amazing developments, the Dallas-Philadelphia game was no foregone conclusion. The Cowboys -- who also could win a <a href=http://www.avanttravel.com/page.php?sale=Louboutin-Daffodile>Christian Louboutin Clearance</a> playoff spot with a victory -- had won their home matchup with the Eagles earlier in the season. So it was startling to see that Dallas appeared to be sleepwalking. By late in the second quarter, the inspired Birds had a 10-3 lead that could have been larger. They looked fantastic. Unfortunately, I was scheduled to guide a Christmas Lights Tour, and I'm expected to look Christmasy. Could I risk jinxing the resurgent Eagles by changing? Wouldn't an Eagles jersey incorrectly suggest to the group that I would prefer to be somewhere else, not to mention that I was a slob? | |
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Revision as of 01:28, 19 September 2014
Admittedly, some people go to extremes. Here's my friend Bob Wallace's e-mail deconstruction of his food restrictions during Eagles games: For instance, caviar. I bought some caviar, creme fraiche potato pancakes for the game, but decided they could be bad luck didn't eat any of it. Nachos are good luck, but chips salsa aren't. Shrimp is good luck, clams are BAD luck. Many snacks are neutral. And beer. Rolling Rock beer is good luck (nice green <a href=http://www.avanttravel.com/page.php?sale=Christian-Louboutin-China>Christian Louboutin China</a> bottles, no labels) UNLESS we are playing the Steelers, Cleveland or Cincinnati. Yuengling is mostly good luck, but not always. Corona/Dos Equis are neutral. (On tap they are actually good luck.) Any light beer is bad luck. (And don't even think about Sam Adams for the Super Bowl.) Eagles bobblehead on the food table is good luck if you don't mess with it too much. And never touch an offensive player bobblehead while the defense is on the field. There's more: When the Eagles are losing in the fourth quarter, I play Irish drinking songs try to force my cat, Phoebe, to watch the game. If I can keep her in the room, the Eagles will come back win. If she runs away, they lose. Also, I can't watch all 4 quarters on the same TV. Ideally it's the 1st quarter in the bedroom, the 2nd quarter in the kitchen the 2nd half in the TV room upstairs. Sometimes I skip the bedroom, but the game has to be on all TVs anyway. And all radios have to be tuned to WYSP <flagship>station for the Eagles] even though they are off. If they are getting killed, I switch to the radio, but the results of that are spotty. Scary, isn't it? Especially if you're Phoebe. But I like the way his mind works. Besides the quiz, my most dreaded bad luck charm is my Chuck Bednarik No. 60 Eagles jersey. The team never has won when I wore that jersey, perhaps because of the animosity Bednarik holds toward the Eagles' ownership. I keep it buried deep in my drawer, like nuclear waste. My battery-powered, wing-flapping eagle, originally part of an Eagles hat and now hanging from our overhead fan, is good luck and can't be disturbed, which is too bad, because I'd like to wear it to work this week. Other good luck charms include my cheesesteak head, my wife's Donovan McNabb bobblehead, our Arizona vortex rocks, my Eagles socks, and wings and beer. I'm particularly happy about that last one. We're in uncharted territory at this point, so I can't be certain about the reach of our powers. As Wallace cautioned, It's the Super Bowl the whole world is watching, so I have less direct control over the game than normal. I understand that. Still, I'm taking no chances. Sorry, Chuck.Jan. 1, 2009 Many people underrate <a href=http://www.avanttravel.com/page.php?sale=Michael-Kors-Sweaters>Michael Kors Sweaters</a> their personal responsibility for the success of their sports teams. This is a mistake I never make. Throughout any given season, I carefully monitor the effect my garments have on team performance. For example, I've had a great Chuck Bednarik Eagles jersey for some years. This thing is death on Eagles teams. Whenever I've worn it, they've lost. I rarely get it out any more. My daughter got me a Reggie White Eagles jersey for my last birthday, and I love it, both because White was my favorite Eagle ever and because, well, it says White on the back. But this jersey has had mixed results this season, and I stopped wearing it on game days. In fact, given the team's erratic performances this season, I never came up with a reliable sartorial formula. Until last weekend. My parents got me a midnight green Donovan McNabb jersey for Christmas. Much as I admire McNabb, he's not my favorite Eagle. I'm a Brian Dawkins man. But it's a cool jersey. I pulled it on just before the games started Sunday, adding my Eagles socks for good measure. Then I settled into my La-Z-Boy. You non-fans need to understand that the Eagles' playoff hopes were pretty much dead going into the day, thanks to a horrible loss to the Redskins last week. In order for the Eagles' late afternoon game with Dallas to have playoff relevance for Philadelphia, the lowly Oakland Raiders would have to beat the very good Tampa Bay Buccaneers -- who were at home -- and either the Bears had to lose to the Houston Texans or the Vikings had to lose to the Giants. If those things happened, the Eagles could climb over Dallas for a playoff spot with a victory. Astoundingly, the Raiders came back from a 10-point deficit and beat the Bucs. When the Bears lost to the Texans, the Eagles were back in it. Even in the wake of those amazing developments, the Dallas-Philadelphia game was no foregone conclusion. The Cowboys -- who also could win a <a href=http://www.avanttravel.com/page.php?sale=Louboutin-Daffodile>Christian Louboutin Clearance</a> playoff spot with a victory -- had won their home matchup with the Eagles earlier in the season. So it was startling to see that Dallas appeared to be sleepwalking. By late in the second quarter, the inspired Birds had a 10-3 lead that could have been larger. They looked fantastic. Unfortunately, I was scheduled to guide a Christmas Lights Tour, and I'm expected to look Christmasy. Could I risk jinxing the resurgent Eagles by changing? Wouldn't an Eagles jersey incorrectly suggest to the group that I would prefer to be somewhere else, not to mention that I was a slob?
