Beware of the Jinx

[Kori Ellis]

http://www.centralmediaserver.com/WOAI/duncan_si_450.jpg

[Spursfan101]

Knock on wood...

[Marcus Bryant]

The Spurs just won in SLC. All other jinxes are now defunct.

[Spurs Dynasty 21]

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God

[T Park]

ah fuck.....

[td4mvp21]

....I don't see why that's bad.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Aw, damnit.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

shit... *takes bat out and procedes to knock the fuck out of his wooden desk* :depressed

[spursfan09]

Huh? What are you talking about? I don't see Duncan on that cover, I see two jazz players, Micheal Vick and some Duke Lacross players but thats all.

[GrandeDavid]

Ain't no goats at the AT&T Center.

[LavaLamp]

Why are you a superstitious lot? Is there a lot of history here I don't know about? :)

[ducks]

he has sucked the last two games
so jinx is over

[duncan228]

Can't wait to get my issue in the mail! Should be tomorrow!
Thanks for the heads up Kori!

[Spursfan101]

Why are you a superstitious lot? Is there a lot of history here I don't know about? :)

We just don't want any bad karma...

[Kori Ellis]

I didn't realize that some people wouldn't know about the Sports Illustrated Jinx. Just google it and read up on it if you are interested.

Anyway, I don't believe in jinxes really. It was just funny that this is coming out.

[SilverPlayer]

The cover jinx

When Major League Baseball player Eddie Mathews, pictured on the cover of Volume 1, Issue 1, suffered a hand injury a week later that forced him to miss seven games, the "Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx" — also known as "The Dreaded SI Cover Jinx" — was born, as some noted that bad things seemed to happen to people soon after they appeared on the magazine's cover. Other notable cover coincidences include:

* January 31, 1955 — The week that an issue featuring her was on the stands, skier Jill Kinmont struck a tree during a practice run and was paralyzed from the neck down.
* November 18, 1957 — The University of Oklahoma had won 47 consecutive games, which remains the longest winning streak in the history of Division I college football. The cover carried the headline "Why Oklahoma is unbeatable." In their very next game, Oklahoma lost to the University of Notre Dame, which was in the middle of a down period. Notre Dame had also been the last team to defeat Oklahoma before the streak began, in 1953.
* May 26, 1958 — SI's 1958 Indianapolis 500 preview issue featured Pat O'Connor, who was killed in a 15-car pileup during the first lap of the race.
* February 13, 1961 — Laurence Owen was billed as "America's Most Exciting Girl Skater." Two days after the cover date, Owen and the rest of the United States figure skating team perished in a plane crash. The International Skating Union canceled the 1961 World Championships as a result.
* December 14, 1970 — The University of Texas, 10-0 and enjoying a 30-game winning streak, fumbled nine times in its next game, a 24-11 loss to Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl.
* April 6, 1987 — Following a surprising 86-win season for the Indians in 1986, the cover showed Cleveland Indians sluggers Joe Carter and Cory Snyder, and carried the words "INDIAN UPRISING" and the sub-headline, "Believe it! Cleveland is the best team in the American League!" The Indians lost 101 games that year, retaining their own curse, the Curse of Rocky Colavito.
* October 5, 1987 — Lloyd Moseby of the Toronto Blue Jays appears on the cover, with the words "Toronto Takes Off — Lloyd Moseby and the Jays soar past the Tigers." When the magazine came out, the Jays were 3½ games ahead of the Tigers, with seven games remaining. The Blue Jays went on to lose all seven. Detroit swept Toronto the last three games of the season, all by one run, and won the division by one game. In 2006, the Sports Illustrated website named this the third-biggest late-season collapse in baseball all-time, illustrating the story with an image of this cover.
* November 30, 1987 — A cover illustrating the victory of the then-#2 Oklahoma Sooners over the #1 Nebraska Cornhuskers lauded Oklahoma and featured Oklahoma's Charles Thompson on the cover. On February 27, 1989, Thompson again appeared on the cover: this time in handcuffs and a prison jumpsuit after his arrest on suspicion of dealing cocaine (he was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison). The article accused head coach Barry Switzer's Sooner program as being out-of-control, and Switzer resigned soon afterwards.

Peter King wrote an article on the Kansas City Chiefs' perfect half-season in 2003. The Chiefs lost their tenth game the following week, and went on to lose in the AFC Divisional Playoffs.
Peter King wrote an article on the Kansas City Chiefs' perfect half-season in 2003. The Chiefs lost their tenth game the following week, and went on to lose in the AFC Divisional Playoffs.

* September 4, 1989 — Major League Baseball Commissioner Bart Giamatti's words about Pete Rose appeared on the cover the week Giamatti died of a heart attack.
* July 4, 1994 — On the same day the US national soccer team is eliminated from the 1994 FIFA World Cup by Brazil, an issue comes out that has the headline "Soccer Mania" and features US striker Earnie Stewart on the cover.
* October 31, 1994 — Because of the players' strike in 1994, the Japan Series is featured in the space usually reserved for Major League Baseball's World Series. A picture of a Seibu Lions pitcher in demolishing the Yomiuri Giants, 11-0, in Game 1 is shown from October 22. The issue was released on October 25, and on October 29, the kyojin win the Fall Classic in six.
* June 5, 1995 — Three days after his appearance, San Francisco Giants third baseman Matt Williams, the National League leader in home runs, batting average and RBI, fouled a pitch off his right foot, breaking it, and forcing him to miss 2½ months.
* March 5, 2001 - Within a week after Nomar Garciaparra's cover appearance, it was announced that he had torn a tendon in his hand, forcing the Red Sox shortstop to miss all but 21 games of the 2001 season.
* October 13, 2003 — In two regional covers of the baseball playoffs one cover shows Kerry Wood of the Chicago Cubs with the headline "Do You Believe?" as the Cubs had not won a World Series since 1908. In the other regional cover the picture is Pedro Martínez (then) of the Boston Red Sox, who had not won a World Series since 1918. Both teams would lose crushingly in their League Championship Series; the Cubs blew a 3 games to 1 lead to the Florida Marlins while the Red Sox blew a 3-run lead in Game 7 to their arch-rivals the New York Yankees. In addition, Wood and Martínez both pitched Game 7.
* November 17, 2003 — Peter King wrote an article praising the Kansas City Chiefs' 9-0 season (at that point). The following week, after wide receiver Chad Johnson declared the Cincinnati Bengals were going to beat the Chiefs, the Chiefs suffered their first loss of the season. The Chiefs went on to win the AFC West with a 13-3 record and gain home-field advantage in the playoffs, but lost in the Divisional Playoff game against the Indianapolis Colts. The Kansas City press and fans soon declared that King jinxed the Chiefs' hopes of glory that season.
* June 6, 2005 — The cover featured Danica Patrick, who had finished 4th at the Indy 500, her career-highest IRL finish. Since then, she has still not won any races, nor has finished in any race higher than that 4th place finish.
* September 26, 2005 — The cover picture shows Philadelphia Eagles QB Donovan McNabb laughing with Terrell Owens who had feuded before. The text said "Brotherly love? The soap opera Eagles come together and win big." Later in the year Owens then criticized McNabb, saying that the Eagles would be undefeated if Brett Favre were the quarterback. Owens was suspended for the season and eventually released by the team. McNabb had it worse and suffered a sports hernia which ended his season. The Eagles finished 6-10. The second headline showed the Philadelphia Phillies and their shortstop Jimmy Rollins, who were in the thick of the NL wild card race. They lost the wild card race by 1 game to the Houston Astros.
* December 2005 — The last SI cover of the year featured USC Trojans stars Reggie Bush and Matt Leinart, after which the Trojans went on to lose to Vince Young and the Texas Longhorns in the 2006 Rose Bowl.
* June 5, 2006 — Four members of the US national soccer team appear on the cover with the headline "US Soccer Wants You". The issue comes out two days before the US highly unsuccessful showing in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, in which they didn't win a game (managing a 0-2-1 record, with the tie against eventual winners Italy), and fail to make it past group play. They were ranked #5 in the world going into the Cup.
* October 23, 2006 — LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and (in particular) Carmelo Anthony all appear on the cover in an NBA preview issue saying "The New Era, game time for Carmelo Anthony and his new friends". On December 16, 2006, Anthony was involved in the Knicks-Nuggets brawl at Madison Square Garden where he punched Mardy Collins of the Knicks. Anthony was suspended for 15 games after the incident. James and Wade were also both injured shortly after.
* November 20, 2006 — In the yearly college basketball preview, the Kansas Jayhawks are featured on one of the five regional covers, and are picked to win the national championship. Almost immediately, before the issue even arrives in most mailboxes, the Jayhawks lose their home opener to heavy underdog Oral Roberts.

While the list of "examples" of the jinx is extensive, an individual record 49 cover appearances by Michael Jordan, team record 61 covers by the New York Yankees, and school record of 105 covers by the UCLA Bruins [1] have not hindered their success.

SI addressed their own cover jinx in a 2002 issue featuring a black cat on the cover. Then-St. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warner was asked to pose with the cat, but Warner, being a pious man, refused to associate himself with such superstition. Warner and the Rams won their next two games to win their second NFC Championship in three years.

[GrandeDavid]

I didn't realize that some people wouldn't know about the Sports Illustrated Jinx. Just google it and read up on it if you are interested.

Anyway, I don't believe in jinxes really. It was just funny that this is coming out.

Oh I know about the infamous SI jinx. I just don't believe in stuff like that. :lol

[iflyabeech]

Hey Spurs are undefeated dating back to Hemisfair Arena when I have gone to a game...a nd I am going manana!!

Go Spurs Go!!

[E20]

Isn't there an NBA Live Jinx?

[Kori Ellis]

Oh I know about the infamous SI jinx. I just don't believe in stuff like that. :lol

I wasn't talking to you:lol I was talking to the people asking questions about the significance or why it was bad.

[SilverPlayer]

Hey Spurs are undefeated dating back to Hemisfair Arena when I have gone to a game...a nd I am going manana!!

Go Spurs Go!!


Fuck! You just jinxed it again. Damnit.

And Greg Ogden is not even available again in the draft next year.

[mardigan]

Isn't there an NBA Live Jinx?
I think its only Madden

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

http://www.centralmediaserver.com/WOAI/duncan_si_450.jpg
Shit.

[td4mvp21]

I didn't realize that some people wouldn't know about the Sports Illustrated Jinx. Just google it and read up on it if you are interested.

Anyway, I don't believe in jinxes really. It was just funny that this is coming out.

:bang

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

:depressed We're doomed.

[Marcus Bryant]

I thought the Spurs have won a title before with a cover.

[Spurs Brazil]

I thought the Spurs have won a title before with a cover.

In 2003

[Spurminator]

Avery was on the cover during the 1999 Finals IIRC.

[easjer]

Aw, hell.

Well, the 'list' is pretty inconclusive. It sounds impressive until you remember how many covers are printed without any incident befalling the people pictured.

Spurs better make certain that everything gets taken care of tomorrow!!!

[ShoogarBear]

:madrun

[ajh18]

Tim Duncan SI Covers for Spurs in the Playoffs? Here's a couple:

-May 31st 1999: "Substance Over Style"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/97/0531_large.jpg

-June 9th 2003: "Who's Going to Stop Tim Duncan?"
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.cnn.net/si/si_online/covers/images/2003/0609_large.jpg&imgrefurl=http://dynamic.si.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/2003/0609.html&h=288&w=221&sz=50&hl=en&start=5&um=1&tbnid=JekR2o8LDem10M:&tbnh=134&tbnw=103&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtim%2Bduncan%2Bspurs%2Bsi%2Bcover%26s vnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den

We did alright in those years...

[leemajors]

:madrun

i think we can get Jim to remedy this situation. Jim, who is your money on?

[Horry For 3!]

That won't stop the Spurs.

[Sweetey]

"jinxes" are satanic-believing bullshit!! God loves the Spurs and He will will take care of satan !!!!!!!!!!!

:clap

[Budkin]

I don't believe in this bullshit.... unless it's Jim. :lol

[MaNuMaNiAc]

* July 4, 1994 — On the same day the US national soccer team is eliminated from the 1994 FIFA World Cup by Brazil, an issue comes out that has the headline "Soccer Mania" and features US striker Earnie Stewart on the cover.
like that had anything to do with jinxing :lol

ok, back to basketball :D

[baseline bum]

:lmao

http://i.cnn.net/si/si_online/covers/images/1999/0531_large.jpg

This cover comes out, and the Spurs go and sweep Portland and take New York out in 5 for the title.

http://i.cnn.net/si/si_online/covers/images/2003/0609_large.jpg

This one comes out, and Duncan has maybe the best series of his career, closing out a title with a game of 21/20/10/8.

http://i.cnn.net/si/si_online/covers/images/2004/0517_large.jpg

This is the only one that brought bad luck, and it was very bad.

All the others Tim has been on have been after titles.

[TampaDude]

Isn't there an NBA Live Jinx?

You're probably thinking of the Madden Curse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madden_Curse

[TampaDude]

http://i.cnn.net/si/si_online/covers/images/2003/0609_large.jpg


Wow...he's scary looking on that cover...

[GINNNNNNNNNNNNOBILI]

http://www.centralmediaserver.com/WOAI/duncan_si_450.jpg

It'd be nice to see the big 3 on a cover

[LilMissSPURfect]

shred the mag and use it as confetti for da parade

[TampaDude]

It'd be nice to see the big 3 on a cover

That will be after the Spurs win it all next month. :toast

[Guru of Nothing]

http://ugly-halloween-costumes.com/scary/Spam/spam-big.jpg

Nothing to see here.

[whottt]

The cover jinx doesn't work against the true greats...

They used to have Emmitt on it weekly back when the Cowboys were winning Superbowls.

[smeagol]

All the male posters have to grab their left testicle and shout . . . Fuck you SI!

Ready . . .






















FUCK YOU SI!!!!























Ouch, that hurt!

I got carried away!

[whottt]

All the male posters have to grab their left testicle and shout . . . Fuck you SI!

Ready . . .






















FUCK YOU SI!!!!























Ouch, that hurt!

I got carried away!


Way to take one for the team :tu

[whottt]

Seriously though...

How many times was Jordan on the cover?

Muhammad Ali?

Lance Armstrong?

Duncan>Jinx

[TheTruth]

This one turned out alright....

http://i.cnn.net/si/si_online/covers/images/2003/0609_large.jpg

[Jimcs50]

When my Red Sox won the World Series and finally defeated the curse, that eliminated all curses and jinxs in sports.

:smokin

[duncan228]

When my Red Sox won the World Series and finally defeated the curse, that eliminated all curses and jinxs in sports.

:smokin

I was living in RI when they won.
Boy did New England go crazy!
It was big enough to eliminate all curses! :lol

[milkyway21]

http://i.cnn.net/si//si_online/covers/images/1999/0531_thumb.jpg
1999 cover- a jinx too?

[mikeanthony21]

http://www.centralmediaserver.com/WOAI/duncan_si_450.jpg

Damn, I'm gonna have to drive down to Papa Jim's Wednesday morning and buy a couple of candles!

[Tek_XX]

Just because some teams have been on the cover and lost doesn't mean there's is some kind of Jinx. Where's the list of teams that won after being on the cover?

[TampaDude]

When my Red Sox won the World Series and finally defeated the curse, that eliminated all curses and jinxs in sports.

:smokin

One remains...the Cubbies...

[J.T.]

It's pretty sad that Duncan can only get headlines props like this when we're in the Finals or on the verge of being there. I said before that the Spurs are tough enough to overcome SI's voodoo. Unlike Dirk and Nash.

[TMTTRIO]

Hey they're already pre-selling the Spurs WC Championship gear on nba.com. I don't know whether this is good or bad for us :p: .
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/894/41wemmuqhilax2.jpg

[Strike]

Hey, the Pistons made a big deal about the Spurs planning their championship parade before the finals were over in 2005.

The Spurs won the title in 2005.

I'm not worried about some shirts.

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

While the list of "examples" of the jinx is extensive, an individual record 49 cover appearances by Michael Jordan, team record 61 covers by the New York Yankees, and school record of 105 covers by the UCLA Bruins have not hindered their success.

That's all I need to make me feel better. :smokin

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

I'm lovin those Western Conference Champs Shirts.