Football Team Predicts Election!

[Nightingale 0]

This is totally weird... but Snopes says it's true.



FOOTBALL + ELECTION

The Washington Redskins have proved to be a time-tested election predictor. In the previous 15 elections, if the Washington Redskins have lost their last home game prior to the election, the incumbent party has lost the White House. When they have won, the incumbent has stayed in power.

This election year, that deciding game takes place on Sunday, October 31 ... vs. Green Bay.

Go Packers!!!

30 October 2000
Redskins lose to Titans, 27-21,
Incumbent party (Dem)
Gore loses to Bush

27 October 1996
Redskins win vs. Colts at home, 31-16
Incumbent party (Dem)
Clinton wins v. Dole.

1 November 1992
Redskins lose to Giants at home, 24-7
Incumbent party (Rep. )
Bush loses to Clinton

6 November 1988
Redskins win vs. Saints at home, 27-24
Incumbent Party (Rep)
Bush wins v. Dukakis

5 November 1984
Redskins win vs. Falcons 27-14,
Incumbent party (rep)
Reagan wins v. Mondale

2 November 1980
Redskins lose to Vikings, 39-14
Incumbent Party (dem)
Carter loses v. Reagan

31 October 1976
Redskins lose to Dallas Cowboys 20-7
Incumbent party (rep)
Ford loses to Carter.

22 October 1972
Redskins win vs. Dallas Cowboys, 24-20,
Incumbent party (rep)
Nixon wins v. McGovern

27 October 1968
Redskins lost to New York Giants, 13-10
Incumbent Party (dem)
Nixon wins v. Humphrey

25 October 1964
Redskins beat the Chicago Bears, 27-20
Kennedy wins v. Goldwater

30 October 1960
Redskins lose to Cleveland Browns, 31-10
Incumbent party (rep)
Nixon loses to Kennedy

21 October 1956
Redskins win vs. Cleveland Browns, 20-9,
Incumbent Party (Rep)
Eisenhower wins v. Stevenson

2 November 1952
Redskins lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers, 24-23
Incumbent Party (Dem)
Stevenson loses to Eisenhower

31 October 1948,
Redskins win vs. Boston Yanks, 59-21,
Incumbent Party (Dem)
Truman wins v. Dewey

5 November 1944
Washington Redskins win vs. Cleveland Rams, 14-10,
Incumbent Party (Dem)
Roosevelt wins v. Dewey

3 November 1940
Redskins win vs. Pittsburgh Pirates, 37-10,
Incumbent Party (Dem)
Roosevelt wins v. Willkie

Going back to 1936 puts us beyond the beginnings of the Washington Redskins, as that year the Redskins franchise was still playing in Boston. Nonetheless, their knack for foretelling the outcome of presidential elections was already in place.

1 November 1936
Boston Redskins win vs. Chicago Cardinals, 13-10,
Incumbent Party (Dem)
Roosevelt wins v. Landon


That is as far back as the streak goes. In 1932 the Washington Redskins were neither the Redskins nor a Washington team: they were the Boston Braves

http://www.snopes.com/sports/football/election.asp

[bigway 4]

i dont know if you can bet on the election or not but i think i will put a 100 quid on the packers

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[tunaplanet 0]

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but Snopes says it's true.

I stopped reading there.

Forty-two

[AggieDave 6]

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i dont know if you can bet on the election or not but i think i will put a 100 quid on the packers

I'm sure you can. Infact I'm pretty sure that just about anything that people are willing to bet on will be bet on. This could come down to how many times Madden uses his damned marker on the screen during the game too.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[quade 3]

Any of these "predictions" based on stuff like this is simply the result of data mining of coincidences.

Clearly the two have no real connection.

It is conciously -trying- to find meaning in the noise like finding "predictions" in The Bible Code.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[skydyvr 0]

Skins Record: 2-4
Packers Record: 2-4

Like the presidential race, this game will be a battle of the losers, but whatever . . .

. . . Go Redskins!!

. . =(_8^(1)

[lawrocket 3]

This is "correlation v. causation."

The LA Kings lost every game I attended for my first 11 games - one time even blowing an 8 game home win streak.

I was not the cause, but it sure correlated. Of course, they won game number 12.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[kelpdiver 2]

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This is "correlation v. causation."

Nonetheless, this streak has gone on so long that it's in the rather inprobable area of coincidence. When it finally misses and gets told as "predicted the election 16 of the last 17 times," then we'll dismiss it as lame. But so long as the streak goes, it's pretty impressive.