CAROLYN MULLARKEY
Special to The Leader
Throughout various sports, there are legends and tales about certain jersey numbers, scorned fans and other associated tales of hexes and jinxes.
There is no better time than Halloween-Eve to discuss all the crazy “curses” some teams and athletes have gone, or are still going through.
While there are many, here are some of the craziest curses, jinxes and hexes all across sports.
A modern curse people are familiar with is the “Drake Curse.”
The Toronto native rapper is a die-hard fan for all Toronto sports, and Canada in general. But, whenever Drake shows his support, the team suspiciously loses.
Fans reacted very negatively toward him online, telling him to stop, go home, etc. because it has become such a trend.
It was finally broken this last year when the Toronto Raptors won the championship and to celebrate, Drake released two songs “Money in the Grave” and “Omertà” in celebration of the big win.
A curse that is close to home for Fredonia is the “Buffalo Curse.”
Buffalo is a city that is notorious for their team’s unlucky nature in both football and hockey.
It is a city with die-hard fans, known as “Bills Mafia,” but for a city with unconditional fans, the Bills record does not match.
The last time the Bills went to a Super Bowl was in 1994. This curse has yet to be broken, although this season, they aren’t doing too bad. There is still a lot of football season left.
Going off the Bills’ last Super Bowl appearance, there is a known curse that goes along with the event in general. The “Super Bowl Curse” has three components.
The first is that the hosting team of the event that year does not qualify to participate.
The cities are decided on years in advance, so it’s pretty much a given that they won’t make it.
The second component is that the participants in a Super Bowl typically both have sub-par seasons the following year.
Lastly, those who come out on top as Super Bowl Champions rarely ever win consecutively.
One of the greatest curses known throughout all of sports is the Curse of the Bambino.
Babe Ruth is unanimously referred to as the greatest baseball player of all time.
He is known for his career with the Yankees, but before that started, he was actually on the Boston Red Sox.
In 1919, the Red Sox traded him to the Yankees and thus began the longest drought in the Sox’s franchise history.
This led to a historical record for the Yankees to win many World Series Championships with the Red Sox left in the dust.
Are these just urban myths? Does history have a way of repeating itself?
Skeptics look into these all from both ways, and these aren’t even all there are.
Some of these are broken, some are still waiting for their time.
One thing is for sure: anything can happen in the world of sports.