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Tonight's MNF (that's Monday Night Football for the Aussie-impaired) and an email got me wondering.  When the Steelers play ...

• My kid wears a Steelers jersey that day.
• Come game time, I'm wearing mine (#86).
• The Hard Hat Brigade hat is on the TV console.
• The Terrible Towel is folded once lengthwise and placed over the shoulder corresponding to the side of the screen they're driving toward (or trying to push the opposing offense into).  Fold edge toward my neck.
• "Rally cap" = Towel placed over head, Emperor-style.
• Steelers bottle cozy over beer; Steelers "jersey" front aligns with beer label.
• Nothing I wear can be a color of the opposing team's uniform.

When my wife mocked me (once), I told her that if I thought it would have a positive influence on the game, I'd paint my face black and gold.  [sm_shock]

I realize I'm weird.  That aside, does anyone else have any superstitions come game day?

Impressive.   [sm_thumbsup2]  I'm not quite in your league.

Me:  Vikings jersey.  Corresponding home/away.  #26 Smith.  Vikings can/bottle coozie.   Hat: rare, but at times, baseball style.  Black, Viking logo.

Karen:  Vikings sweatshirt, jersey sometimes in early, or pre-season.

Madolyn:  Could care less and is outside playing.  Probably in traffic.

Asked previously but no answer yet --> cozy contents = I.C. Lite? 

Terrible Towel nearby.  That's it although I've been known to keen at banshees after a loss.

Steelers are on SNF next week v. Cincy.  You haulin' all that *feces* along?   [sm_shock]

LOL

Iron City is pretty hard to find 'round these parts.  I go with some kinda stout, usually.

The hardhat won't make the journey.  The Towel and jersey probably will, although the jersey may be replaced with a more tasteful Steelers shirt:

I'm really not a superstitious guy, so I can't really think of anything I must do when rooting (that's cheering for the Aussie-impaired) for my team. I used to know a guy who insisted that the Jazz won every time he drank Miller High Life, but that's just too high a price to pay.

No superstitions at all really.

One thing though - I used my DVR a lot and watch all sorts of stuff delayed, and love it.  However, if I'm watching a live sports event - for some reason it drives my bonkers if someone hits the pause button.  I'm slightly neurotic about the 'live' aspect of it, and do not know why  [sm_dontknow]

Nothing clothes/drinking related but I do remember never moving from a particular chair/sofa while watching games. Thinking if I moved while they were doing well they'd end up getting beat. It was a bit OCD as I remember.

Then the '98 Vikings came along and kicked me hard in the nuts. Since then I've put "my" sports teams in perspective. I have fun when I watch them but I'm not caught up enough to have any superstitions.

Not really.  I generally have some type of red shirt/OU shirt on during the game.  But I think we've lost while I was wearing each of them at one time or another.  I also bust out the OU tittie (Coozy for the Aussie-impaired) and Miller Light.  And I always turn on the surround sound for the game.  

just wave the terrible towel here (for steeler games)
that, and consume the mandatory rum and diet  (or multiples thereof)

Okay, just a little question, from the impaired-aussie. ;D ;D ;D

I was flicking around the tv, and they had american football on, and the Vikings were on, well I knew that Stroh and Torp liked them so I decided to watch a little bit of it.

WHY, do they stop every two minutes. ???
Someone gets tackled and they stop and everybody goes to the sidelines. ???

[sm_laughatyou] Aske's a 49ers fan?

Kevin Williams gets tired.  They also need time to show enough beer commercials to pay for showing it in Australia.

Actually, it's just how the game is played.  A lot slower than what folks are used to overseas.
Between each play, and several sets of plays there are "time outs" to make strategy, and a lot of the "rulings" for penalties take time.

Especially when Hochuli flexes them.

Don't forget the TV timeouts.  (lame)

If you come at it from the perspective of soccer, it's a boring game with lots of interruptions.  Other than the interruptions, then, ...  [sm_devil]

No, I don't come from the perspective of soccer (boring........sorry UB :P), I tend to watch more Rugby League which has a more of a flow to the game.

I'm similar to Fuzzy.  I enjoy watching sports, but don't live or die by them anymore.

My sports nutkicking moment came in the 1992 NLCS with Sid Bream slowly, painfully reaching home to beat the Pirates.

How many years have you been doing this?  [sm_devil]

 ;D

Definitely.  American football, is more of a battle with generals and soldiers.

A plan is made.  It is relayed to the troops, and a small battle takes place, trying to achieve the objective.  As soon as the skirmish is settled, the troops fall back, regroup and for a plan for the next attack. . A drawn out productin. Especially in the big money driven NFL.  (The games is stopped a lot as Clive said for what they call "tv timeouts" .  They literally stop the game, everyone stands around, while the commercials are shown for us at home.


 Not as much free flowing "sport" ........

Unless you're the Vikings!!!  All they do is put the beat down on that ass baby!

 ;D  Works out well, since it's my name.  Down side is, when I need a new one I have to change numbers to Dwight Smith, and he just goes naked in a stairwell.  ;D

I PVR football games I really want to watch and skip the commercials and half-time.  Can watch a game in about 90 minutes no problem. 

Funny how we all see things differently.  Soccer is essentially non-stop action yet baseball fans will call it boring.  They also say there's not enough scoring when a no-hitter is baseball manna from heaven.   

[sm_dontknow]

Football is full of interruptions yet most here (including me) find it very compelling. 

[sm_dontknow]

Hockey is non-stop action albeit light on scoring and it can't really get its foot in the door in the USA (compared to the big three).

[sm_dontknow]

Basketball, for me, simply has too much scoring.  It's only compelling when it comes down to the last few minutes of a game and the score is close.  Other than that it's a endless display of buckets and at the NBA level nothing but one-on-one showboating. 

[sm_disgust]

Rugby Union and GAA are among the best TV sports out there but at last count only about 17 Americans have Setanta.  This is where I usually insert my "Americans don't like sports not invented here" theory.

:o [sm_devil]

I watch AFL for the men in tight shorts.  Haven't a clue WTF is going on with the game itself.

[sm_anon]

smites  for you all     :sad3: :sad3: :sad3:

Well I really only know of rugby league because I was brought up on it. My father was a mad fan.

Guess What, my most favourite sport is, and the one I want to watch all the time..........yes it is "Golf". ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

back in the glory days  of   cable hdtv  (aka 2004-2005... lol)  when inhd and inhd2  were separate before  becoming mojo (which still has some great shows, but not enough sports!!!)     

they had

rugby 7's
cricket
and occasionally some soccer



that, and the lingerie bowl.   [sm_shock]

No superstitions for me.  If I have a team shirt, I like to wear it.  Sometimes, I'll wear a cap if I have one.  Neither is mandatory, though.

On any given Sunday, I could be cheering my team on in brocade or sweats.

That would be Pat Williams that gets tired. ;)

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I knew you were going to post that. ;D