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10-13-2004, 01:39 AM | |
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If you want Bush to win... better root for Redskins vs Packers 10-31...
http://www.snopes.com/sports/football/election.asp
With the packers playing so pathetically, it looks like Bush is a shoe-in. [This is not necessarily a Wash DC forum thread, as it ties in football...] |
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10-13-2004, 01:39 AM | #2 |
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A recent item of this ilk maintains that the results of the last game played at home by the NFL's Washington Redskins (a football team based in the national capital, Washington, D.C.) before the U.S. presidential elections has accurately foretold the winner of the last fifteen of those political contests, going back to 1944. If the Redskins win their last home game before the election, the party that occupies the White House continues to hold it; if the Redskins lose that last home game, the challenging party's candidate unseats the incumbent president. While we don't presume there is anything more than a random correlation between these factors, it is the case that the pattern has held true even longer than claimed, stretching back over seventeen presidential elections since 1936:
What do we make of all this? Nothing. We see it as coincidence, as evidence that anyone who tries long and hard enough can find apparent patterns in any collection of data. But for those who believe in this sort of thing, the Redskins' last home game before the 2 November 2004 election is a Halloween Day contest against the Green Bay Packers — Republican supporters will be rooting for the Redskins, and Democratic supporters will become Cheeseheads for a day. |
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nothing at all, eh?
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10-14-2004, 03:20 AM | #4 |
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Out of morbid curiousity, I went to Pro football reference and looked it up, and since merging with the NFL, the Chiefs are 59-64-1 in election years coming into this year. Adding this year's incomplete totals to it, we get 60-67-1. The best record by a Chiefs team during an election year is 10-6 by the 1992 Chiefs. That team was also the only Chiefs team since the merger to make the playoffs during an election year. They lost to San Diego 17-0 in the Wild Card round though... so I guess you could say the Chiefs have never scored a single point in a playoff game in the NFL playoffs during an election year. That's your completely useless statistic of the day.
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thanks tk13. you rule.
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