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Redskins, Packers, and the Election

by Sean Hackbarth

Today’s Packers game will be the strangest one I may ever experience. That’s because I’ll be rooting for the Redskins. Run Clinton run!

The rational side of my brain tells me the strange Redskins-election streak has no bearing on who in Ohio, Florida, or Wisconsin will vote for on Tuesday. Another part of my brain tells me to not tempt fate. Going by Vegas, Bush is doomed since Green Bay is favored. But since the Red Sox finally won the World Series we know all streaks are bound to end.

I hope Brett Favre, Grady Jackson, and the rest of the Packers have a good season, but I want Joe Gibbs and company to grab a win today. Does that make me a bad Packers fan?

“Middle Man”

UPDATE: I want to smile that Vikings’ coach Mike Tice is a big Bush backer, but I can only go so far in my pro-Bush/anti-Pack stuff. Praising a Viking crosses a line.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, October 31st, 2004 at 3:30 am and is filed under Sports. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

10 Responses to “Redskins, Packers, and the Election”

1

Go for the Packers. I think a lot of Green Bay fans who are in a good mood will be more likely to vote for Bush.

2

I’m just worried if the Packers win. Then it will be the Redskins-election streak versus the Weekly Reader poll. I’d expect a split Electoral College.

3

Kerry’s “Lambert Field ” broke that curse.

4

Come on, this is pure hokum. The Red Sox finally won too, but it doesn’t mean Kerry is going to win.

5

Steve, I want to think that. My right brain (I think) says the streak means nothing. But my other half wonders if that’s how a higher power gives us a signal.

6

My problem with the idiot Fox announcers is they keep harping on this, as if John Kerry has anything in common with the Packers…

7

Packers-Skins

- I’m upset that my team lost
- Mark Brunell is a joke. A really bad joke.
- This means Kerry wins.
- Sean is on the flipside. His team won, but his candidate h

8

A Kerry presidency is a small price to pay for going into the bye week at 500, and losses by Detroit and Minnesota.

9

Packer safety Darren Sharper is a big Kerry supporter. He said he was thinking of that before the game. I bet all the players and coaches were thinking about it. Joe Gibbs is a big Republican and probably felt added pressure. I imagine most coaches and white players (and a much larger percentage of black players than in the general population) in football are Republican but I know Steve Marriuchi has appeared with John Kerry at rallies.

10

What if the game was a metaphor for the election?

At first it looks like Bush has the game won. But due to a “foul” he has to give up some of his gains and Kerry sews up the election in the last days of the campaign.

Kerry wins by good margin despite how close it looked just minutes before the end of the game.