superstition

Make sure you have your lucky rabbit's foot & 4 leaf clovers on you.

It usually doesn't take more than a sentence or two with a sports guy, talking about any subject, before you receive some sort of bizarre superstition in reply. After Thursday's NBA Finals game 1, I was talking with one of our sports geeks about the series. "Well, you know the team that loses the first game will win the series." What? What kind of science or hokum is THAT based on? Read