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Knock on wood...
Knock on wood...
The Spurs just won in SLC. All other jinxes are now defunct.
oh
my
God
ah .....
....I don't see why that's bad.
Aw, damnit.
... *takes bat out and procedes to knock the out of his wooden desk*
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.
Ain't no goats at the AT&T Center.
Why are you a supers ious lot? Is there a lot of history here I don't know about?
he has sucked the last two games
so jinx is over
Can't wait to get my issue in the mail! Should be tomorrow!
Thanks for the heads up Kori!
We just don't want any bad karma...Why are you a supers ious lot? Is there a lot of history here I don't know about?
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.
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 su ion 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 Martνnez (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 Martνnez 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 supers ion. Warner and the Rams won their next two games to win their second NFC Championship in three years.
Oh I know about the infamous SI jinx. I just don't believe in stuff like that.
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!!
Isn't there an NBA Live Jinx?
I wasn't talking to youOh I know about the infamous SI jinx. I just don't believe in stuff like that.
! You just jinxed it again. Damnit.
And Greg Ogden is not even available again in the draft next year.
I think its only Madden
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