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Redskins Football Games Predict Election Winner
jangobongo writes "The folks that investigate urban legends at Snopes.com have looked into the rumor going around on the internet that says, "The outcome of Washington Redskins football games has correctly predicted the winner of every U.S. presidential election since 1936." Their findings? It's true! The predictive game for this year will happen on October 31 vs. Green Bay. Which team are you gonna root for?"
Redskins! or, the Lower Potomac Basin Indigenous peoples, if you will ....
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There is no way they could be predicting the outcome of elections...unless they were being paid off by both parties. ;-) Even then, it's still not guaranteed.
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Those little reflections in the matrix also have something to say about a President elected in a year that ends in 0, yet I never hear *anyone* mention that these days.
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15 correct predictions: 1/2^15=1 in 32768
Some ways to interpret:
incumbent vs challenger
republican vs democrat
the inverse of each
=4, making it 1 in 8192
X big teams (I have no idea how many, not a sports fan). Lets say 64.
So 1 in 128 of a big sports team randomly predicting 15 elections in a row correctly, or somewhat greater considering the average odds of winning (team or president) is not exactly 50-50.
And there are easily a couple hundred other possible predictors that people could identify with.
So lets say the odds were 0.99 in 1 of finding something like this.
...the incumbent party decides what the outcome of the games are...
OK, not funny, I know, mod me down...
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It's true, I swear. Every election year the Redskins win, someone also wins the presidency.
And I'll lay money that the same happens this year.
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Simply put, this is just comparing any two annual events (or in this case, every 4 or 8 years) and observing some common pattern. Given the amount of annual events that exist in the world, how hard can it be to find a coincidence between two events.
man, i'm glad they're playing green bay. for a while there i was worried bush was gonna get re-elected.
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This is, of course, nothing but a pattern in randomness. That plus a confusion of causation with coincidence.
what would have to happen for nader to win?
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So if they win, then a presidential election will result in a win by one of the delegates? That's absolutely fantastic, and very very scientifically confusing at the same time.
If this were ture then the Redskins would have won the game by scoring a touchdown with four minutes of play left in the fourth quarter of their october 30th, 2000 game against the Titans while the referee wasn't watching. ESPN would have reported that the Redskins had won two minutes after the end of the game, but Fox Sports would clain that the game was too close to call until midnight, when they'd claim that the Titans had been victorious.
Two days after the game, Jeff Fisher, the Titan's coach, would have mailed a red flag to NFL headquarters, thereby challenging the play. The NFL commisionner would have informed him that the referee on the field that day had final discretion. The referee would have been Jeff Fisher's brother, Jeb Fisher. Jeb would have claimed that the tocuhdown never happened.
Steve Spurrier would then appeal the decision with Paul Tagliabue who, after long deliberation, would have ruled that the final decision lies with the scorekeeper. The scorekeeper would have been found to be keeping tally of the score using marbles. He would eventually admit that he wasn't quite sure how many marbles had been on his table and how many of them had been in which team's box. He would however claim that he was almost entirely certain that there had been more marbles in the Titan's box than in the Redskin's. Eventually everybody would have been confused to the point of desperation and the Titans would have been handed the victory by the gist of having won three of the four quarters.
I want the fire back.
The Packers have been playing like sh!t with a quaterback on his last leg who is under the crosshairs of anyone who can get past the offensive line...
:(
Mike Sherman's playbook was posted online somewhere in PDF format - because no team has been surprised at anything they've been doing.
I'm a nerd, but I support my team - I just wish they didn't suck ass this year...
You sir, are a retard
When you have random events, streaks are expected to occur. Even so (and despite my living deep in Bears territory), go Greenbay!
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...where can I get one of those foam cheese hats?
Incidentally, for anyone rooting for Washington, this is the same football team that managed to lose to the Cleveland Browns not too long ago. So the Packers have a pretty decent chance.
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I'm rooting for Nader but he has a bye that week. Chat It Up With Nader
Makes you wonder which political party paid off Joe Gibbs to come back to the Redskins in an election year?
A real coincidence is that even with Gibbs, they still can't win
If Bush is re-elected, then dies in office, it would fit the pattern.
What we've seen is that it isn't just the curse of Tecumseh, this view of things also involves astrology. Every 20 years, a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn takes place. Every 20 years since 1840, it has taken place in either Taurus, Capricorn, or Virgo (known in western astrology as "earth" signs). The one exception to this was in 1980-81, when the conjunction took place in Libra (an "air" sign). This would explain how Reagan survived an assassination attempt but every other president elected after a Jupiter-Saturn conjunction died in office.
In addition, the pattern has been that the deaths alternated between the first and second term of the incumbent:
The last Jupiter-Saturn conjunction that took place was on May 28, 2000, in the earth sign of Taurus. G.W. Bush has apparently survived his first term in office, but if the pattern holds he will die in his second term. Provided, of course, he's re-elected.
This pattern doesn't explain the death of Zachary Taylor in July 1850, after Harrison's death, and only time will be able to tell us if the pattern otherwise holds up.
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Perhaps that's the most telling thing of all.
Are you refering to both candidates, both teams, or both the sport of football and the presidential election process?
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That should really shake things up.
John Kerry has already messed with fate when he was in Green Bay and referred to Lambeau Field as 'Lambert Field'. His disgraceful sacrilege has already cost the Packers two home losses. Kerry's heresy will cost him dearly when the Packers win in Washington and then Bush wins Wisconsin and wins the election in a landslide.
Go Bush, Go Packers, Go Football Fans For Truth.
The chance of a coin turning up heads the seventeenth time, after turning up heads the previous sixteen times, is exactly the same as it turning up heads once. The actual chance of it turning up heads seventeen times in a row is .5^17, or 1 in 131072.