Fans Do Crazy Things
A superstitious Cubs fan collects stories form Red Sox fans about how they broke the curse and finally won a World Series.
(PRWEB) November 10, 2004 -- Fans do crazy things to help their teams win
games. Just ask Alan Goy, creator of www.IBroketheCurse.com. Through his website and an eventual
book, Goy is chronicling the great lengths that Boston Red Sox fans went to help
bring their team a World Series title for the first time in 86 years.
“I’ve always been a superstitious fan myself,” says Goy, a devout Cubs
fan. “My sister and I never called a potential no-hitter a no-hitter. We called
it a chicken sandwich.” In 2001, his superstition worked when he attended a
no-hitter thrown by Bud Smith of the St. Louis Cardinals, the same team recently
swept by the Red Sox. “Maybe the Cardinals are particularly susceptible to
superstition.”
The day after the Red Sox broke the Curse of the Bambino
and won the World Championship, Goy began collecting stories. Some of the
stories are simple rituals: eating the same foods during the games, watching the
games in the same bar or apartment, or not watching the games at
all.
Other stories are more complex. One fan turned his master bedroom
inside out, emptying his drawers out on to the floor, putting things that had
been hanging on the walls in drawers, and turning everything on his bulletin
board upside down.
Others are heartwarming. Take the story of a woman
whose grandfather had attended a Red Sox World Series game in 1916. An article
was written about him in the Worcester Telegram in 1986 which she held tightly
in her hands throughout each game, knowing that this would be the
year.
One fan simply prayed to her deceased cousin to relinquish the
curse. How would that help? Her cousin was Babe Ruth.
Goy plans to
compile the definitive collection of how millions of Red Sox fans helped break
the curse, but his motives aren’t purely historical. “I’m a Cubs fan. We haven’t
won in 96 years. If the Red Sox can do it, so can we, and I want to know
how.”
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