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00:00Let's challenge a curse. Don't you ever rub your nose in a curse. You're asking for it.
00:11A curse is dark magic that has been brought against somebody.
00:19A curse is just evil in that person's life.
00:23Curses aren't just something witches use to turn a prince into a farm.
00:30They are something that has prevented teams from winning in the NFL.
00:34Fans believe in jinxes and curses because it's easier than admitting we stink.
00:39There's a reason why the ball isn't bouncing our way or hasn't bounced our way for 20 years.
00:45It's a power above me, above all.
00:49I just jinxed this man.
00:50I do believe in curses. I do believe that people have the ability to curse people.
00:58You have to be a gypsy.
01:00Mary Colfield broke the curse.
01:02If you don't believe in jinxes and curses and you're a football fan, then I don't know what you do
01:08on your Sundays because they're absolutely real.
01:10And I've got the lucky socks to prove it.
01:12There's a gleam, man.
01:14There's a gleam.
01:15We've got our lucky socks and horseshoes.
01:19Anybody with a horseshoe can hit?
01:21No broken mirrors or walking under ladders here.
01:24That's scary.
01:25For some teams, if it wasn't for bad luck, they'd have no luck at all.
01:30This is Top 10 Football Curses.
01:33We've got to exercise that curse.
01:35It's the number 10 football curse of all time.
01:39The curse of the honeybears.
01:42Don't mess with a pack of ladies.
01:44That's never going to end well.
01:45You don't want to piss off a bunch of hot chicks, no.
01:48I mean, it was a whole lot of women scorned.
01:57In 1977, George Hallis told his associates,
02:01I want dancing girls on our sidelines.
02:04He didn't want to be upstaged by the Dallas Cowboys.
02:07He wanted to have the best cheerleaders in the NFL.
02:10And those honeybears, I gave them tremendous credit
02:13because those outfits were not too big.
02:16And it was freezing up there.
02:19That was a classy lot.
02:22Just punch up, honeybears, on your computer.
02:26Take a kick of gander.
02:28Hallis told his associates,
02:29as long as I'm alive, we will have dancing girls
02:32on the sidelines of Bears games.
02:34George Hallis passed away in 1983.
02:37His daughter took over,
02:39and the dancing girls' days were numbered.
02:41Virginia McCaskey decided that she didn't like the idea
02:44of having cheerleaders being a part of their team.
02:47I believe there was a perception in the organization
02:49that somehow cheerleaders are sexist
02:52and don't belong in football stadiums.
02:56The honeybears' contract ran through 1985,
03:00a year where their presence spurred the Bears
03:02to one of the greatest seasons ever.
03:04It was a carnival.
03:06He had a great team.
03:07They got rid of them
03:08and haven't won in 40-plus years since.
03:10Filled with personalities.
03:12You had hot-looking women
03:14in hot-looking outfits.
03:16That was their last year as cheerleaders here, 85.
03:18And all of a sudden, mysteriously,
03:20like that, they were gone.
03:22How do you eradicate the Chicago Bears,
03:25honeybears cheerleading squad?
03:27They've never won since.
03:29Coincidence?
03:31I don't think so.
03:33As they walked out the door
03:35and threw their pom-poms with a finger up,
03:38they said,
03:38you will never win a game!
03:50If I were him, I'd...
03:52The next three seasons,
03:54the honeybears smiled
03:56as the Bears exited the playoffs
03:58with a home loss each year.
04:01It is odd
04:02that after they took them out,
04:03they couldn't even with that team,
04:05you know,
04:06continue on.
04:09It's got to be the honeybears.
04:10Buddy Randall even had nothing to do with it.
04:13When McMahon was,
04:14you know, getting hurt,
04:16he was calling,
04:16those darn honeybears!
04:18I wish they were here!
04:21What's the obvious thing to do?
04:23Bring back the honeybears.
04:26All we've got is an ugly bear out there.
04:28It's not good.
04:30Halas is turning in his grave.
04:33Honestly,
04:34the honeybears were rocking.
04:36Halas loved the honeybears?
04:38And were not respecting his wishes?
04:40This is just a travesty.
04:43Ginny,
04:44get with the program!
04:45Come on!
04:46Georgie Boy wanted the honeybears!
04:50Chicago,
04:51if a jinx gets put on you,
04:53it's going to stay for a while.
04:54Just ask the Cubs.
04:56If you tear into the darkness,
04:59you may never leave the curse of Billy Penn.
05:02I don't know if you want to talk about the so-called curse of Billy Penn,
05:05but I'd love to get into that.
05:07Well, the Eagles are in trouble.
05:08They are in trouble.
05:09He's going to play off the hands of Luke Staley.
05:12All they knew was somebody said that that guy on top of City Hall is the reason that we're not
05:15winning anymore.
05:17This is scary.
05:18There's a different reason.
05:20They're looking down on everybody right now like,
05:23How dare you challenge me?
05:25For the sake of the emotional health of this entire area,
05:29things better change for the Eagles.
05:31Until I stay fit,
05:34you will lose forever.
05:36Well,
05:38they broke that curse.
05:44In 1681,
05:45William Penn was granted the land that became Pennsylvania,
05:48and over the years,
05:50a gentleman's agreement stated
05:51that no building in the city of Philadelphia
05:54would rise above his statue atop City Hall.
05:58So the curse of Billy Penn
05:59supposedly started in 1987, right?
06:02Because they finally built taller than Billy Penn.
06:04And the suggestion is,
06:05I'll show you.
06:05I'll see to it that you never succeed.
06:07How dare you shadow me
06:09with these ostentatious buildings?
06:11The evidence of our number nine football curse of all time
06:14first became apparent in 1988
06:17with the Fog Bowl.
06:19I believe the Bears would have lost
06:20had the Fog not rolled in.
06:22The Eagles that year would have won the Super Bowl
06:24if they get out of Chicago.
06:26Three years later,
06:27Philadelphia's Super Bowl expectations
06:29were once again shattered.
06:31Randall Cunningham is down on the field.
06:33Talk about lightness.
06:35If Cunningham doesn't get hurt,
06:36who knows where that team goes?
06:38Even the Eagles' all-time winningest coach
06:41couldn't get past Billy Penn.
06:43They need to get rid of McNabb.
06:45They need to get rid of Reed.
06:46Andy Reed made only one Super Bowl appearance,
06:49which he lost.
06:50A painful, painful defeat.
06:53After competing in five NFC Championship games.
06:57He is shaken up.
06:59Donovan must really be hurting.
07:01I mean, not only did the Eagles lose
07:03in all these NFC Championship games,
07:04but they lost badly.
07:05Fires, and it's intercepted.
07:07And the minute he grabbed that football,
07:10you could hear nothing in this stadium.
07:14The whole town is decimated.
07:16Food doesn't taste good.
07:18You build a skyscraper,
07:19and your city's fortunes go down the drain.
07:22Your life ends.
07:23Your girlfriend's ugly.
07:25I mean, you're doomed.
07:26We should have won!
07:29Damn it, we should have won this game!
07:31You know what?
07:31Damn it!
07:32Damn it, time out, time out!
07:33We should have won this game!
07:34No time at nothing!
07:37I do think that there needs to be some homage
07:40to this history of broken promises
07:43that I'm talking about.
07:45As a member of the Quaker religion,
07:47William Penn has room in his heart for forgiveness.
07:50Now, Comcast, they put a little...
07:53The little, what, Billy Penn statue
07:56at the top of the Comcast building,
07:57which is the tallest building
07:59in the city of Philadelphia.
08:01And then the Phillies won a world championship.
08:03However, while the Phillies have made peace
08:06with William Penn...
08:07This team's good!
08:09These guys got to play!
08:10Our number nine football curse of all time
08:13continues to plague the Eagles.
08:15This is as devastating an Eagles loss
08:18as I can remember.
08:20Only for another four years.
08:21A long, long time.
08:22There are a lot of people here
08:23that still believe
08:24that the curse of Billy Penn
08:26is real and does exist.
08:27The last time the Eagles won it all,
08:29guess where it was?
08:30It was at the field,
08:31the home field of the Penn Quakers.
08:32The Eagles hold the Packers
08:33the rest of the way
08:34to win their first world championship
08:35since 1949.
08:37Hey, baby, Chuck Bednarik.
08:39A Penn Quaker.
08:41It's all coming together, let me tell you.
08:43It's all coming together.
08:44The number eight football curse of all time.
08:47The Pottsville Curse.
08:49Do you believe in curses when it comes to go back?
08:52No.
08:53No, I don't.
08:54No, I don't.
08:54Except that one, that Pottsville curse.
08:57I believe in that one.
09:00Cardinals haven't had much luck,
09:02and the root of all evil
09:04can be traced way back to 1925.
09:08Here's what happened.
09:09The Pottsville Maroons won the NFL World Championship.
09:13They won it all.
09:14The next week then,
09:15they played a college all-star game.
09:17They had agreed to play an exhibition game
09:20against a team of Notre Dame all-stars.
09:24It was pro football early days.
09:26It was just about the money.
09:28So they won the NFL.
09:29It's like, okay, let's pick up some extra money.
09:30Let's play the college all-stars.
09:32Well, the NFL didn't like it.
09:34So the NFL voided their championship
09:37and gave it to the Chicago Cardinals.
09:39NFL teams barnstormed all over the country back then.
09:43So to penalize them like that,
09:45that was preposterous, unfair.
09:47So Bill Bidwell and the Bidwell family,
09:50that curse is on them.
09:52And until they return that Super Bowl title
09:56back to the Pottsville Maroons,
09:58they're going to continue to have losing season
10:01after losing season.
10:02I can't watch this.
10:04Incredible.
10:06It is possible for an entire county or city
10:10to collectively send out some black magic against us.
10:17Our number eight jinx must be strong magic.
10:20The Cardinals have had more name changes
10:22than division titles.
10:24But they are who we thought they were.
10:26Absolutely the reason why the Cardinals have never won.
10:28No difference.
10:29Of course, it makes all the sense in the world.
10:32Had they not gotten screwed over in 1925,
10:35things would have been totally different.
10:36Neil Lomax wouldn't have gotten sacked so much.
10:38Jim Hart wouldn't have gotten sacked so much.
10:40It's clear that this curse is true and strong.
10:45That's how we've heard.
10:47And Gramatica was dancing up in the air,
10:49and it looks like he hurt his knee.
10:50Ah!
10:53I don't ever rant for anybody,
10:54but let's just say the Pittsburgh Steelers
10:57did us a favor back in 2008,
10:59making sure that the curse stayed.
11:01That 100-yard interception return for a touchdown,
11:05there had to be some sort of curse on the game
11:07for allowing something like that to happen.
11:10Spirits are blocking Potsville.
11:12Potsville saying,
11:13no, give us that thing back.
11:1414-point swing.
11:16Going to be tough to come back from that.
11:21I think it would be a great idea
11:23if the Cardinals and the people of Potsville got together.
11:27And let's work through it.
11:29All he has to do is acknowledge that the Potsville Maroons
11:33won this championship in 1925.
11:36What is Bidwell even getting out of that?
11:37By the way that this curse is real,
11:41the Cardinals beat the Eagles
11:45in a Pennsylvania team
11:48and then lost to a Pennsylvania team,
11:51the Steelers in the Super Bowl
11:52in Potsville, Pennsylvania.
11:56Like, does Bidwell wear a T-shirt
11:57that says that 1925 NFL champ?
12:00Boy, it doesn't get any darker.
12:02I could just imagine the Bidwells
12:05walking out in the middle of farmland.
12:07Okay, we've got your 25 NFL championships.
12:10Here's your trophy.
12:11I don't look at it as giving in to the demands of a curse.
12:15I look at it as making peace with my enemy.
12:19You could call it like spiritual blackmail, if you will.
12:22I just, I choose to look at it,
12:24well, I'm just trying to make peace and harmony.
12:26I bet if you do that, things will change.
12:31Coming up, why are you talking about curses
12:33and you don't have the Cleveland Browns on the list?
12:36How is that possible?
12:37Cleveland and their Ohio brethren
12:40have no creative curse to rally behind.
12:43So, we came up with some suggestions.
12:46You're a Brown, baby!
12:48The Browns haven't won since ditching their Elf logo in 1969.
12:53They are clearly suffering from
12:57the Gremlin logo curse.
13:00They spilled the Browns.
13:01I know, man.
13:02Across state, when Bengals coach Paul Brown stepped down,
13:06the team passed over assistant Bill Walsh
13:08to hire Bill Tiger Johnson.
13:11Without question, their two Super Bowl losses
13:14to the Niners were due to...
13:18the Tiger curse.
13:20End of the end throw.
13:21Touchdown to Taylor.
13:23Elves and Tigers don't crack our list,
13:26but a presidential tragedy checks in at number seven.
13:29But it's not the end of the world.
13:31If we die, we die to get it.
13:35The number seven football curse of all time,
13:38the Buffalo McKinley curse.
13:40I think a lot of Bill's fans truly believe
13:42that there is a higher power
13:45that does not want Buffalo to win everything.
13:48The genesis of Buffalo Woe can be traced back
13:51to the turn of the 20th century
13:52when the city had their first chance
13:55to shine on the national spotlight.
13:58In 1901, the World's Fair was in Buffalo, New York.
14:01Some lunatic shoots the president, William McKinley.
14:04He ends up dying in Buffalo.
14:12What does that have to do with anything?
14:15How many people really believe in this curse?
14:17This was a long time before any existing sports league
14:22except the MLB,
14:23which Buffalo doesn't even have a team in,
14:26was founded.
14:28You can't get cursed from something
14:30from before sports
14:32and it carries over the sports.
14:34That's dumb.
14:35Every time you're right on the cost,
14:37you get to the spotlight, right?
14:38You walk right up
14:39and that's what the world is like.
14:41Remember that time in 1901?
14:44Remember that?
14:44We gave you that chance.
14:46Oh, hold on a second.
14:47We're blaming William McKinley
14:50for what happened to a football team
14:5460 to 80 years later.
14:5960 to 90 years later.
15:01Buddy, you realize you were really reaching
15:02on this one, right?
15:03Like, it's probably the dumbest curse I've ever heard.
15:06Maybe there was a curse before William McKinley.
15:08Maybe the curse got William McKinley.
15:11To the people of Buffalo,
15:12I'm saying, look, really, just get over it.
15:19Legend says the McKinley assassination
15:22condemned the city to fail
15:23every time it took the nation's center stage.
15:26Their NBA team left town,
15:28their NHL team lost the Stanley Cup on a bad call,
15:31and their greatest NFL player was disgraced.
15:35Then there's the early 90s.
15:38He missed it to the right
15:40with four seconds to play.
15:42The wide right will,
15:43that's on Buffalo's tombstone.
15:46The Redskins game,
15:48the star running back forgets his helmet
15:49for the first series.
15:50Thurman Thomas doesn't even start the game
15:52because he can't find his helmet.
15:53How does that happen?
15:55You're starting to freak me out a little bit with this.
15:56He's going to throw here.
15:58Here's Hailey.
15:58Hit him and it's out of the air
16:00and rolls in for a touchdown.
16:03These poor Bills fans,
16:05these poor Bills fans,
16:06to have this keep happening to them.
16:08There are no floods on the field.
16:12Tennessee has pulled a miracle.
16:15Music City miracle,
16:17that could be the fault
16:18of the presidential assassination.
16:23It wasn't a president that people remember
16:25and like they rally around
16:27and there are like special holidays
16:28and they're moving.
16:29Like Daniel Day-Lewis isn't going to play
16:31William McKinley.
16:32Lincoln was assassinated in Washington.
16:35Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
16:37Both franchises of one.
16:39You know, McKinley was not up to the stature
16:41of either one of those two guys.
16:42So why does Buffalo
16:44take the brunt of the cosmic punishment?
16:46It's not fair.
16:46This has just been a horrible
16:49and horrendous nightmare for the Bills.
16:52That's old.
16:53We're in another century now.
16:55It's just time to let it go.
16:56They need to get a new self-image.
17:00They're saying that
17:01after that assassination in 1901,
17:04nothing good has come out of Buffalo.
17:06Buffalo wings.
17:07That is a Buffalo wing today, baby!
17:10In your face, Curse.
17:11In your face, McKinley.
17:13You're making people fat all over America.
17:14You died in vain.
17:15The number six football curse of all time.
17:19Broadway Joe's deal with the devil.
17:21So do I believe that Joe Namath
17:24actually boozed with the devil?
17:26That is just awesome.
17:29If anybody's going to make a deal with the devil,
17:32it was number one Joe Namath.
17:36We're going to win the game.
17:37I guarantee you.
17:38Joe Namath had a conversation with the devil
17:41right before that Super Bowl,
17:42and he said,
17:44Devil, if you give me this championship,
17:45you don't have to give the Jets
17:47anything else for the rest of my life.
17:49I would never recommend
17:50making a deal with the devil
17:52because literally you're going to have hell to pay.
17:55And why all of a sudden
17:57that's become an evil in me?
17:59Joe Namath lives to 105
18:02if he made a deal with the devil
18:04that the Jets never get anything.
18:05They shouldn't have gotten that
18:07when he was young.
18:09Nine times out of ten,
18:11they get blown out in that Super Bowl.
18:14I don't know.
18:18While contract negotiations
18:20are nothing new in the NFL,
18:22our number six football curse
18:24involves a deal between Broadway Joe Namath
18:26and the Prince of Darkness.
18:30And I could feel the heat
18:31coming from that chair.
18:33He was seething.
18:34You know, I get goosebumps
18:35talking about it now.
18:37And you know what?
18:38I agreed with him.
18:39I agreed with him.
18:40I agreed with everything he said.
18:41He was right.
18:42With Satan in his corner,
18:44Namath defeated the heavily favored
18:46Baltimore Colts
18:47and was named Super Bowl MVP
18:49despite not throwing a single pass
18:52in the fourth quarter.
18:54He's under it!
18:55Terrible!
18:56He had to make a deal with the devil.
18:58I mean, there's really no other way.
19:00Jet fans still swear
19:01that Joe Namath sold his soul
19:03to the devil
19:04to beat the ball.
19:07The game is over
19:08and New York Jets
19:09are the world champions.
19:11Jets haven't won anything since then.
19:14So, you tell me
19:15there's not a curse.
19:18The Jets had their first
19:20Super Bowl title,
19:21but over the next four decades,
19:23they would experience
19:24hell on earth.
19:25I can't imagine
19:26a poor performance
19:28by a New York Jet team.
19:30If you're a Jet fan,
19:31you have to approach
19:32every season this way.
19:33Expect the worst.
19:34You're never disappointed.
19:35Because we're not allowed to win.
19:37We actually bring
19:37Tim Tebow in here
19:38and he doesn't even get on the field.
19:40That's God's son.
19:41Our God
19:43is an awesome God
19:46We're the only franchise
19:47in America
19:48that would bring
19:49Jesus himself in
19:50and not use the guy.
19:52Thank you all.
19:53God bless.
19:56So, I guess at some point
19:58Satan is going to come
19:59and claim Joe Namath's soul.
20:01At 70 years old,
20:03Joe Namath is taking care
20:04of himself
20:05and living well
20:06while the Jets
20:07are stuck in football purgatory
20:09thanks to the number six
20:11football curse
20:12of all time.
20:13And a mix-up
20:14in the backfield.
20:15Oh, that's the ball.
20:16Down he goes.
20:17If Joe Namath
20:18really did make a deal
20:19with the devil,
20:19then sign me up too
20:20because he's had
20:21a pretty darn good life
20:22and he also got a Super Bowl
20:24out of this whole thing.
20:25They have upset
20:26the Baltimore Colts
20:27and beat them handily
20:28here today.
20:30Coming up,
20:31a curse so we
20:31curse of all time.
20:33Marcus Allen
20:33hexes Al Davis.
20:35He put him in a freezer.
20:41The most astounding
20:43term of fate.
20:45Are we calling this
20:46Marcus Allen
20:47jinx or something?
20:48A Marcus Allen special.
20:50Not a question fate,
20:51I just say.
20:52I appreciate it.
20:54It's in my favor.
20:54That's it.
20:55Maybe this is a bad idea
20:56for you to be airing
20:57all these secrets
20:57about how to hex somebody.
20:58This could totally
20:59flip the NFL upside down.
21:06If ever there was
21:08a team to delve
21:09into the dark arts,
21:10it would have
21:10to be the Raiders.
21:12We don't quit.
21:14We don't die.
21:15We just spit
21:16like pain.
21:17And the feud
21:18between Marcus Allen
21:20and Al Davis
21:21led to our
21:21number five
21:22football curse.
21:25Al mysteriously
21:26stopped playing.
21:28He was one of the
21:28greatest running backs
21:29in NFL history
21:30and Al kept him
21:32on the sidelines.
21:32I thought I was
21:33ready to play.
21:34I didn't know
21:34people were doing
21:35the job.
21:40So Allen leaves
21:41and he goes to
21:42the Chiefs
21:42and what?
21:43He puts some sort
21:44of voodoo curse
21:45on the Raider
21:46organization.
21:47He put a picture
21:49of Al Davis
21:50in the freezer.
21:51Yes, I have heard
21:52of that.
21:52Where people
21:53who are trying
21:54to stop an enemy
21:55will get a jar
21:57of water
21:58and put a picture
21:58of that person
21:59in the freezer
22:00to freeze them,
22:01to stop them.
22:02And so, yes,
22:03that is truly
22:03a ritual
22:05of that nature.
22:07I'm not trying
22:07to teach people
22:08black magic,
22:09but it's also
22:09done with coffee.
22:10You could just
22:11put them in coffee
22:12and freeze them.
22:12so I hope
22:14it didn't do it,
22:14but such a spell
22:16actually does exist.
22:17Took a picture
22:18out there
22:18and put in
22:19the freezer.
22:20And that's a hex.
22:21I don't think
22:22I've ever seen
22:22anything like this.
22:23That's a bunch
22:24of crap.
22:27While Marcus Allen
22:28earned a place
22:29in Canton,
22:30Touchdown
22:30for Kansas City!
22:32We've got
22:32a Kansas City
22:33winner!
22:33Poetic justice,
22:34that's all I do.
22:36The Raiders
22:37haven't won a championship
22:38since Allen
22:39left the team
22:40in 1993.
22:42This is really
22:43getting pathetic.
22:44What else
22:45could go wrong?
22:45What else
22:46can the Raiders
22:46do wrong?
22:47The statistics
22:48don't lie,
22:49you know,
22:50and the situations
22:51don't lie.
22:52And while the Raiders
22:53once had the highest
22:54winning percentage
22:55in all of sports,
22:56the mystique
22:57of the Raiders
22:57remains frozen
22:58in the past.
23:00I believe that
23:01Al, once he found
23:02out about his
23:03picture being
23:03in the freezer,
23:04it only fed
23:06into his
23:06the world is
23:07against me
23:08sort of
23:08conspiracy theories.
23:10Patriots'
23:11dynasty was launched
23:12with that
23:12tuck rule game.
23:13How appropriate
23:14that it was
23:15in the freezer,
23:15in the ice box
23:16for the Raiders,
23:17just like Al was.
23:19After reviewing
23:19the play,
23:20the quarterback's
23:21arm is going
23:22forward.
23:23It is a hit.
23:24All right!
23:25Patriots retain
23:26the ball!
23:27Frankly,
23:28I wouldn't want
23:28a picture of Al
23:29Davis anywhere
23:29near my freezer.
23:30That would just
23:31terrify my pudding
23:32pops and my
23:33frozen peas.
23:34We have no room
23:35for our Boca
23:35burgers.
23:36Now we don't know
23:36where to put
23:37these things.
23:37Fine.
23:38Do we need room
23:39for our Boca
23:39burgers?
23:39They just drafted
23:40Jamarcus Russell.
23:41Pictures working.
23:42Jamarcus Russell
23:43deep in the end zone.
23:44Loads it up.
23:45Home run ball.
23:46Well covered.
23:46It's going to be
23:47intercepted.
23:50But Al's gone now,
23:51so maybe it's
23:52time to take it out.
23:53Did you know
23:53that Marcus Allen
23:55lit the eternal flame
23:56at the Raider game
23:57recently?
23:58Al Davis died
24:00on October 8th,
24:012011.
24:03And while Marcus Allen
24:04may have made amends
24:05with his former boss,
24:07the mystery and the power
24:08of our number five
24:09football curse
24:10lives on.
24:14number four football
24:16cursors of all time,
24:17the SI Cover Jinx.
24:19It's not true.
24:20It's ridiculous.
24:21First of all,
24:22look at this, man.
24:22First of all,
24:23is there anything
24:24about the swimsuit edition?
24:25Is there anything
24:26wrong with that?
24:27Hmm?
24:29Ah.
24:33Don't want to try
24:33to use it
24:34as a crutch.
24:36You ever hear
24:36those models
24:37babying themselves?
24:38No, it's a curse.
24:40I can't be
24:40on the front cover.
24:41Stop being a damn
24:42baby and shut up.
24:43There's no such thing
24:44as an SI curse.
24:45People just want
24:46something to grab onto,
24:48I guess,
24:48to explain
24:48when their team fails.
24:50The SI thing
24:51is a lot of hog.
24:51It's a lot of crap.
24:54I believe in the SI Cover Jinx
24:57because there's
24:58just too many examples
24:59for you to blow it off.
25:04The SI Jinx
25:05dates back to the 50s.
25:06The first NFL victim
25:08was Doak Walker,
25:09whose Lions lost
25:11five straight
25:11after he appeared
25:12on the cover in 1955.
25:15I think the SI Jinx
25:16is totally legit.
25:17I worked in Kansas City
25:19in 2003.
25:20The Chiefs
25:20are 9-0.
25:21Trent Green
25:22is on the cover.
25:24The fans have
25:25a magazine burning
25:26to try to release
25:28the spirits
25:29of the SI Jinx.
25:30What happens?
25:31They lose to the Bengals
25:32the next week.
25:33The Bengals!
25:34The Chiefs
25:35are no longer undefeated
25:36even with the burning
25:38of the magazine.
25:38So I know it's real.
25:40I'll never forget
25:41the Tony Mandarich
25:42incredible bulk cover.
25:44That draft
25:45in the top five,
25:46you had Troy Aikman,
25:48you had Mandarich,
25:49you had Deion Sanders,
25:50Derek Thomas,
25:51and Barry Sanders.
25:53And who gets the cover
25:54of Sports Illustrated?
25:55Tony Mandarich.
25:57There was a reporter
25:58at Sports Illustrated
25:59who called Bill Parcells
26:01when he was a Giants coach
26:02just to start to talk
26:03about a story
26:04in the magazine.
26:06And Parcells
26:07cut him off.
26:08Hey, Phil,
26:09I'll run the game!
26:10And started yelling at him,
26:12no cover!
26:13No cover!
26:16What are you talking up to?
26:18Right?
26:18Because obviously
26:19it manifests itself,
26:20but why?
26:21What physically
26:22or emotionally
26:23happens when
26:24you're on the cover
26:24of S.I.?
26:25I don't believe
26:26it's possible
26:27to be jinxed
26:27by being on the cover
26:29of a magazine,
26:30but if you believe
26:31that you're going
26:32to be jinxed
26:33by being on the cover,
26:34I can guarantee it
26:35that you will be jinxed.
26:36It kind of sets you up
26:37for failure
26:38because you think
26:39you've arrived.
26:40Once you're on the cover
26:40of that magazine,
26:41you think,
26:41okay,
26:42I must be pretty good.
26:44People tend to regress
26:45to the means,
26:45so if we're going to put people
26:47on this cover
26:47that have had a great week,
26:48there's a pretty good chance
26:49they're going to have a bad week
26:50the next week.
26:53Now with these regional covers
26:54that S.I. has,
26:55it doesn't have
26:56the same kind of flavor.
26:57I'm not trying to jinx you,
26:59but I'm done with that.
27:00I almost wish
27:01we still had it
27:02where you'd wake up
27:03Tuesday morning,
27:04run to the mailbox,
27:05get your Sports Illustrated
27:06and say,
27:07oh, that team is screwed.
27:09Remember they did
27:10that S.I. cover curse issue?
27:12I want to know
27:13what happened to the cat
27:13after that.
27:14Did the cat get sick?
27:16Did he throw
27:16any interceptions?
27:19Up next,
27:20what is the most
27:21haunted stadium
27:22in our next football curse?
27:25The number three
27:26football curse of all time,
27:27the Superdome curse.
27:29No, no,
27:30the Saints just won
27:31the Super Bowl
27:32a few years earlier.
27:34That can't be on the list.
27:36Oh, it's haunted, all right.
27:37This is the dangest thing
27:38I've ever seen
27:39in a football game right here.
27:40I've never seen
27:41anything like this either.
27:42It looks like Ghostbusters
27:43out here.
27:44Who are you going to call?
27:48Joe, you can explain it.
27:52While some consider
27:53New Orleans a portal
27:54into the unknown,
27:56the city's Superdome
27:57is the subject
27:58of our number three
27:59football curse of all time.
28:01Well, when the dome
28:02was built,
28:03that was actually
28:04the site of the
28:05old Gerard Street Cemetery.
28:07And they built
28:08this facility on there,
28:09I think, unwittingly.
28:10They're digging up,
28:12they're leveling the ground,
28:13they're leveling it,
28:14they're digging everything up,
28:15and all of a sudden
28:16they dig up a corpse.
28:17And they're like,
28:18what?
28:18They think it's another
28:20murder in the city.
28:20So they called in the police
28:22to see, well, yeah,
28:23who was murdered here?
28:24And then find someone
28:25and say, no,
28:25this was a cemetery
28:26once upon a time.
28:27And the Saints
28:28have done the unthinkable.
28:31And I don't think
28:32that went over very well
28:33in the spirit world.
28:34Now, of course,
28:35we've got the fantastic
28:36Superdome,
28:37which without a doubt
28:37is the very finest
28:38in all the sports.
28:40Opened in 1975,
28:42the Superdome
28:43was now the home
28:44of a struggling
28:45NFL franchise.
28:47It's like having
28:49open-heart surgery
28:50week after week
28:52after week
28:52without an aesthetic.
28:54The first 12 years
28:55they didn't make the playoffs
28:55in that building.
28:56People made a lot of fun
28:58of the Saints
28:58and their very bad years.
29:00You know,
29:00the Aints
29:01and the bags
29:01over their heads.
29:03There's one of the Aints.
29:04They don't want
29:05anyone to know
29:05they're identified
29:06with their football team.
29:10During the 2000 season,
29:12the Saints made
29:12a rare playoff appearance
29:14and they were prepared
29:15to come to terms
29:16with their haunted past.
29:21I was asked
29:22to come in
29:23to do a blessing
29:24for the Saints
29:25who had never
29:26won a playoff
29:27in their 34-year history.
29:29They then
29:30knocked off
29:31the defending champion Rams,
29:33the greatest show on turf.
29:35They beat them.
29:40You could feel
29:41the energy
29:42and the power
29:44of those fans
29:45praying
29:46for the team
29:48to get rid of
29:49evil in the dome.
29:50On 4th and 14,
29:52we'll punt it away.
29:53He hangs it very high,
29:55angling it
29:55for the near sideline.
29:57I keep
29:57dropping the ball!
29:58I keep dropping the ball!
30:00You gotta be kidding me!
30:01It has to do all
30:02the Saints football!
30:03There is a God
30:04after all!
30:05And with that,
30:07the Saints won the game.
30:08The curse
30:09seemed to have been lifted
30:11as the Saints
30:12beat the defending
30:12Super Bowl champs
30:14and eventually
30:14won a title
30:15of their own.
30:17Looks in his direction.
30:18It picked up!
30:20It picked up!
30:20It's Tracy Porter!
30:22He's gonna go all the way!
30:23The Saints
30:24have won
30:25the Super Bowl!
30:29But like everything
30:30in New Orleans,
30:31the Superdome
30:32is full of surprises.
30:33But just when you think
30:34it's going away,
30:35lo and behold,
30:36the biggest game
30:37of the season.
30:38They will!
30:40Go!
30:40Oh, the way!
30:41It's Kobe Jones!
30:43Oh, don't even bring that up.
30:45That was the NFL
30:46turning the lights out
30:47because they didn't want
30:48Baltimore to win
30:49and they were blowing
30:50the 49ers out.
30:52Why's the clock stop?
30:55Why's the clock stop?
30:59What happens?
31:00Blackout.
31:01Somehow,
31:02a massive outage
31:03of power
31:04in New Orleans
31:05Superdome
31:06has put this game
31:07on hold.
31:08Only in New Orleans.
31:09Only in New Orleans.
31:11How the hell
31:11does this happen?
31:12This is insane.
31:14Maybe it's just
31:14a way of
31:15kind of the spirits
31:16kind of reminding folks
31:17that we're still around.
31:20That we'll blackout
31:21in the middle
31:21of the Super Bowl.
31:22Still we come,
31:24what is the real reason?
31:25The number two
31:26football players
31:27of all time,
31:28the Madden Cover Curse 2.
31:31The Madden Cover,
31:32if you're on the cover
31:33of John Madden,
31:35you get injured
31:35the next year
31:36or something bad
31:37happens to you.
31:39It's taken
31:39truly great players
31:41and ruined their careers
31:42in their prime.
31:43And that's the last thing
31:44you want to see
31:44is that card
31:45come onto the football field.
31:46To be on the cover
31:48of one of the best-selling
31:49video game franchises
31:51ever
31:51and not be happy about it,
31:54then it might be a curse.
31:55I can't have it.
31:56There's a trouble
31:57I can't take it away.
31:58Hey!
32:02Hello, everyone.
32:03Welcome to Madden
32:04NFL 97.
32:07Some claim
32:08it's just a video game,
32:09but the repercussions
32:10of our number two
32:12football curse
32:12of all time
32:13cannot be denied.
32:15The list of athletes
32:17struck down
32:17by the Madden curse
32:18is just staggering.
32:22Marshall's fault
32:23was injured.
32:24Marshall's hurt.
32:24I think Marshall
32:25got hurt.
32:25Dante Culpepper
32:26was one.
32:27The ball comes loose.
32:29Ray Lewis
32:29goes down
32:30with an injury.
32:31You all right?
32:31I broke it.
32:32Or what?
32:33Sean Alexander
32:34was one of the most
32:35durable running backs
32:36in the whole league.
32:37He got hurt.
32:38Sean Alexander
32:39must have
32:40rolled up his ankle
32:41or something.
32:42Donovan McNabb
32:43has one of his
32:44worst seasons
32:44as a pro.
32:45And McNabb
32:45is shaken up.
32:47Vince Young.
32:48Vince is down
32:48on the far boundary.
32:51Took a header
32:51on the concrete.
32:53Vince Young?
32:54Anybody seen
32:55Vince Young?
32:59Where did it start?
33:00You know where it started?
33:01Garrison Hurst.
33:03So now they've got
33:04to start from deep
33:04in their end of the field
33:05and Garrison Hurst
33:06takes advantage of it.
33:07And you know the story.
33:08One of the great runs
33:09of all time
33:10on 90-0.
33:11Garrison Hurst
33:12goes right down
33:12the sideline.
33:13And the 49ers!
33:15That's shot the Jets
33:16in overtime!
33:18And that's how
33:18his year started
33:19and his year ended
33:21with the curse.
33:23And we have a
33:24injury right off the bat
33:25on Hurst.
33:27Another day,
33:27another hard,
33:28no, no.
33:32Perhaps the biggest
33:33victim of the curse
33:34was the player
33:35who graced the cover
33:36of Madden NFL 2004.
33:40It's a nightmare situation
33:42as Mike Vick
33:43continues to be worked on.
33:44Pre-season,
33:46Vick breaks his fibula.
33:48I mean,
33:48even the Madden curse guys,
33:50that's skyline.
33:51It's a little bit rough.
33:53He got me fired.
33:55So I definitely believe
33:56that I can blame Madden
33:57without him.
33:58John,
33:59you got me fired.
34:00It's your fault.
34:04Fittingly,
34:04no one has appeared
34:05on more Madden covers
34:07than John Madden himself.
34:09But don't think
34:09for a minute
34:10that he isn't well aware
34:11of the risk
34:12he's running.
34:13The fact that Madden
34:14knew to take himself
34:15off the cover
34:16tells you something
34:16about that curse.
34:17I don't know
34:18John wants to be back
34:19on that cover.
34:20John Madden doesn't even fly.
34:22You think he doesn't know
34:22about that damn curse?
34:24You think John Madden
34:25doesn't know
34:25about the Madden curse?
34:27He doesn't even fly.
34:29There's a freaking
34:29bust everywhere.
34:33And believe me,
34:34John Madden knows
34:35about that damn curse.
34:36Otherwise,
34:37he would fly planes
34:38and all kind of stuff.
34:41Have they announced
34:42it's over now
34:43because of Calvin Johnson?
34:44Especially since Calvin
34:45broke the curse
34:47last season.
34:48In 2012,
34:50Megatron transformed
34:51the NFL record books.
34:53Calvin Johnson
34:54has just sent
34:54a single season
34:55receiving yards
34:57marked.
34:57But he and the Lions
34:59still felt the wrath
35:00of our number two
35:01football curse
35:02of all time.
35:04Lions went from being
35:05a 10-6 playoff team
35:07to being 4-12.
35:08So even though
35:08Calvin had a great year,
35:09there's still a belief
35:10in Detroit
35:11that the Madden jinx
35:12lives on.
35:13The Madden curse
35:14goes on and lives on.
35:16Madden curse lives on,
35:18baby.
35:18Come on.
35:19I think the curse
35:21died with
35:23Mahomes.
35:25Oh, yeah.
35:26Curse of all time.
35:28The curse of Bobby Lane.
35:30The curse of Bobby Lane
35:32is he is,
35:33if not for Barry Sanders,
35:34the single greatest
35:35Lion in history.
35:36He was larger than life
35:37on and off the field.
35:38He led the team
35:39in every way.
35:40He led them from
35:40the goal line
35:41to the end zone
35:42to the bar
35:43after the game.
35:441957,
35:44he breaks his leg.
35:46They go on to win
35:46the championship
35:47with Tobin Road
35:48to quarterback.
35:48They then trade
35:49Bobby Lane
35:50to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
35:51And on his way
35:51out of town,
35:52he said the Lions
35:53won't win anything
35:54for 50 years.
35:55Talk about sour grapes.
35:57This team won't win
35:57for 50 years,
35:59he said.
36:00Lane cracks the top spot
36:02on our list,
36:03not for his sour grapes,
36:04but his very large grapes.
36:08You're a stud
36:08when you can predict
36:10your own curse.
36:13Babe Ruth didn't try
36:15to put a curse
36:15on the Red Sox.
36:16They talked about
36:17the S.I. Jenks
36:18or the Madden curse.
36:19Well, they didn't try
36:19for this.
36:20Bobby Lane did it.
36:21He cursed the Lions.
36:23Do you have, like,
36:24witch's blood
36:25in your veins,
36:25Bobby Lane?
36:27No.
36:30I think Detroit
36:31bought into it.
36:33You know,
36:34they're reading
36:34possibly,
36:35so they're feeding
36:35their minds,
36:36their hearts,
36:37so they're gonna
36:37set themselves up
36:38a failure.
36:39The Lions have had
36:41plenty of failure.
36:42In the 50 years
36:43following the
36:44Bobby Lane trade,
36:45they won
36:46just one playoff game.
36:49Touchdown!
36:50Sterling truck!
36:52And in a development
36:53that would no doubt
36:54make Bobby Lane smile,
36:55it's the quarterback
36:57position that has
36:58held them back.
36:59For me to explain
37:01all the quarterbacks
37:02that I've covered
37:03and the time I've covered
37:03the Detroit Lions,
37:05it would be like
37:06a 10-year box set
37:07of the Sopranos.
37:10Eric Kippel.
37:11Chuck Long.
37:12Scott Mitchell.
37:14Gary Danielson.
37:15Rusty Hilger.
37:16I don't know
37:16if you've heard
37:17of Rusty Hilger
37:17before that, okay?
37:19I don't even knew
37:19who he was
37:19when I covered
37:20the league.
37:21Jeff Carmel.
37:22Stoney Case.
37:23The great
37:23Andre Ware.
37:25Eric Kramer.
37:26Stop me when you've
37:27heard enough
37:27cursed quarterbacks here.
37:28Charlie Batch.
37:30Joey Harrington.
37:31Don Makowski.
37:32Dan Orlowski.
37:33We had a kid
37:34named Mike McMahon
37:35and we had,
37:36you know,
37:36I don't know
37:37how it goes.
37:37There's not one
37:38quarterback
37:39in one Pro Bowl
37:40since the early
37:41early season.
37:43Eric Kippel.
37:44Guy known
37:45for being knocked out.
37:46This is real.
37:49It's only supposed
37:50to last 50 years.
37:53They needed to get
37:54through that 50 years.
37:55Just get through it.
37:56He may have
37:56outdone himself
37:57because we're
37:57beyond 50 years.
37:59So they go 50 years
38:00and then the 51st year
38:01the Lions go 0-16.
38:03A donut.
38:04The other way.
38:04The wrong way.
38:05I mean,
38:06that's an explanation point.
38:07Oh yeah,
38:08you thought we were
38:08messing around
38:09for a little bit.
38:09But here you go.
38:11Served up.
38:11Worst team ever.
38:13What you gonna do now?
38:16How do you go about
38:17negotiating the end
38:19of a curse?
38:20She gotta break
38:21the curse somehow,
38:22right?
38:23Is it holy water?
38:24What do you do
38:25to break curses?
38:26I don't know.
38:27In 2009,
38:29the team finally
38:30attempted to appease
38:31Bobby Lane
38:32and end our
38:33number one ranked
38:34curse once
38:35and for all.
38:36The Detroit Lions
38:37select Matthew Stafford.
38:40The Lions draft
38:41this kid
38:42who not only went
38:44to Highland Park
38:45High School.
38:46He lived on
38:47the same street
38:48as Bobby Lane did.
38:50Bobby Lane is from.
38:52He lived on
38:53the same street.
38:54The party is on,
38:56my friend.
38:56Hollywood will
38:57fall all over
38:58itself when
38:59Matthew Stafford
39:00finally leads
39:01the Lions
39:01to a Super Bowl
39:02victory.
39:03And you have
39:04the man who
39:04broke the curse
39:05of Bobby Lane
39:06that came from
39:07the same high
39:07school as Bobby
39:09Um,
39:11what actually
39:12happened,
39:13uh,
39:15the Lions
39:15traded Matthew
39:16Stafford to
39:17Los Angeles
39:20where Hollywood
39:21is and he
39:22won a Super Bowl
39:23there.
39:24They still
39:25haven't gotten
39:26back to the Super
39:27Bowl.
39:28They still
39:29haven't been to
39:29a Super Bowl
39:30since
39:32ever.
39:37You can't
39:38script it
39:39any better than that.
39:40go, baby.
39:41We got a lot
39:41to do.
39:42My advice
39:43to the teams
39:44who have been
39:45victims of
39:45curses is,
39:46first of all,
39:47you have to
39:48believe that
39:50the power of
39:50good is stronger
39:51than the power
39:52of evil.
39:53But above all,
39:54stop saying
39:56you're cursed.
39:56I'm cursed.
39:58Because the
39:58more you say
39:59it, the realer
40:00it gets.
40:01I'm 100%
40:03cursed.
40:03Start saying,
40:04I'm blessed.
40:05I'm a victor.
40:07I'm gonna win.
40:08This is the year,
40:09baby.
40:1019-0.
40:11Believe it.
40:12You know,
40:12these are the kind
40:13of things,
40:13but don't keep
40:14saying something
40:15that happened
40:16100 years ago.
40:17Because you're
40:18going to get
40:18more of it.
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