If it’s October it must mean that across the country baseball fans are breaking out lucky charms, good-luck hats, rabbit feet and meticulous gameday rituals for the nerve-wracking MLB playoffs. Fox Sports rated the 10 best fan supersitions in order of which ones don’t work at all and which actually might have a butterfly-like, cosmic effect on your team.
All baseball teams seem to have some sort of towel-related giveaway. They’re the worst. The Terrible Towels of the NFL’s Steelers were kind of cool, then quickly were not. At all. Like, they became the biggest embarrassment to Pittsburgh since Dave Wannstedt. But they were original which at least gives them a special cachet and makes them better than all the other inferior imitations that came after it. They’re all fairly annoying though. “No, disembodied voice playing over the loudspeaker, I do not want to wave my rally towel in the air when I’m instructed to do so. This isn’t a 2 Live Crew concert where the mere suggestion of putting my hands in the air will get them way up high. Just let me watch the game.”
(Also, this doesn’t include the color-outs we see at basketball and hockey games because those aren’t forced superstitions, they’re merely pathetic attempts at team unity through mass conformity. I think there was a chapter in 1984 about it. On the nights teams do that, it’s a wonder they don’t give out Kool-Ade at the door. Rest assured though, if a Miami Heat “white out” were considered to be a sports superstitions it’d be right here – at the bottom of the list.) MORE