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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!
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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.
I make sure my family and pets are not within a 20 ft radius of me, because if something goes wrong in the game, projectile objects are liable to hit them in the head. Could be as soft as a pillow or as hard as the remote.
Ohh, and the only two words that I scream at the top of my lungs are the f-word and "touchdown!!"
I know me and some others here do certain tailgating foods depending on the Cards opponent. We did pizza on the grill and hoagies for the Giants game. Not sure what we'll do for the Rams. Lamb, maybe?
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if the Cardinals lose I go out and find the fattest ugliest girl i can find and bring her home for some loving to take the bad taste of a loss out of my mouth.
I'm wary of any attempt to portray Cardinal fans as "those wild and wacky fanatics" (who, by implication, don't know a whole lot about football).
For this reason, I've avoided "best fan" and other media contests centered around fans who are all decked out as though they're ready to go out trick or treating.
Instead, my model is closer to many of my NY Giant fan neighbors (who'll restrict their zany-ness to wearing a Giant bb hat, hoody or warm-up jacket - and who tend to temper their enthusiasm by pointing out the various ways the Giants could lose their next game).
That said - I've discovered that whenever I wear my AZ Cardinal baseball cap during the week before a game, we lose. (I test this theorem every once in a great while only to discover to my dismay, that it jinxes the team every time). So, instead, I'll usually walk around with a NJ Devils or StL Cardinals cap between football games and on game day.
On game day (less from superstition than from frustration listening to the on-air commentators make inane comments about the game and more specifically, the Cardinals), I'll typically exercise a quick hook and hit the "mutant" button of my remote pretty early in the first quarter of any Cardinal game and watch the remainder of the game with the sound turned off.
Finally - on the east coast (where most Cardinal games are aired at 4:15 pm and extend through the dinner hour - and borne more out of my reluctance to suffer from angina at the tender age of 69 than any sort of superstitious riitual), I'll usually TIVO the second half of the game and wait til it's over before checking the final score. Then - whether the outcome is good or bad - I'll watch the replay of the second half. (So OK OK, I'll admit occasionally leaving the dinner table during the game to "peek" at the score).
Bottom line - I really don't want to be part of an ESPN "Zany Cardinal Fan of the Week, Month or Year" deal, but simply wanted to share with you what one Cardinal fan goes thru on and before game day.
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