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Tim Struby here, writer at ESPN The Magazine. Am doing a feature for our fan issue and looking for NFC playoff-bound team fans who have hardcore rituals. Do you have to eat certain foods at a certain time for dinner the night before a game? Then do you have to wash your game day outfit twice the night before and then sleep exactly 6.5 hours, then have the same two friends over who sit in the same spots for the start of the game, then rotate seats during each commercial? Stuff like that?
What do I want to do? To sit with and watch different fans go through their rituals and whatever crazy stuff they do leading up to their team’s game. I’ll bring my pen and pad and photographer and you’ll be in ESPN The Magazine!
Anyone with such rituals, please drop me a note. I'm at tstruby (my username) at yahoo.com(i couldn't write my email normally for some reason) Looking to nail down some subjects soon!
When the Cards play on MNF my ritual is to set the TV to mute so I never have to hear Tony Kornheiser.
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The night before a game I chop up red and yellow peppers, add onions and marinate overnight in garlic salt and crushed red peppers for my brauts. Game morning I have a cup of coffee, spend 1 hour putting my "gameface/warpaint" on and try to get my wife to look at me. Her quote: "Kiss you? I'm not even going to look at you!"
Last edited by Carddan; December 7th, 2008 at 09:16 PM.
We usually make sugar cookies the night before and decorate them with things about the other team, you know, how bad they suck etc. And we now have one friend who is not allowed to miss a game. He hardly ever watched Cards games, but over the last couple years everytime he did watch they won. So now it is a rule he has to be at my house for every football party. I dont wash my jersey in between wins either, not sure why but I always have done this. Needless to say in past years it got lots of washing. But this year, well lets just say I have to be careful not to spill on it.
funny, we have a lifelong friend (literally has been a virtual part of our family for 28 years) that is NOT allowed to be in ANY proximity to any of our family members during games. and he is not allowed to call. inevitably, as each game inches towards completion he always calls, we all roll our eyes and turn off our phones. if anyone answers, the cardinals lose. it's like horror flick.
for the longest time we thought he was the jinx for all az sports (he was at game 6 of the finals back in the charles barkley days), but got THAT gorilla off his back with the 2001 world series (you should have seen him at the BOB after that game, we were all jumping up and down yelling, "WORLD CHAMPS! WORLD CHAMPS!" and he was doing the same yelling, "I'M NOT THE JINX! I'M NOT THE JINX!" since that time we realized it was really the cards that he jinxed.
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