What are your GameDay rituals?Superstitions?What do you do for mojo or luck?

by mrpelicanpants on Sep 29, 2025 10:46 PM EDT

Fact.

I have scientific proof that I, myself, by either wearing or not wearing my lucky Bama shirt, has a profound effect on the way that Bama plays. I had given up on "luck" after winning the MNC last year. I wore my shirt the first two games this year ,just to get back into game shape. I DIDNT WEAR IT AT ALL THE FIRST HALF OF THE ARKANSAS GAME TIL THE 2ND HALF! Coincidence? I think not! Halftime adjustments, I promise, were made by fans across the Bama nation and it collectively had an effect. MOJO.....its for real.......What do you do for your team that may be a little "out there" or crazy? Do you believe in fate or luck? I take anything that the COTG will give me, since I know he is bound to strike us down at any minute, since he made the schedule for Alabama with the Story of Job in mind......he gave us lots of test this year....testing our faith in the process....Do you ever offer up prayers or offerings of good behavior on behalf of your teams performance? How about sacrifices? animal or other wise?

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1) MSU gear for every game. Same hat for every football and basketball game (for hockey, I have an ‘07 National Champions hat). Shirt varies, but usually the most recent bowl game shirt I have for football, Final Four shirts for basketball and hockey. (Jersey over it if I’m going to the hockey game; hockey jerseys are about the only ones that don’t suck.)

2) If going to a game, I have a 75-minute playlist that must be played before I leave home. If I’m not at home (which is often the case now that I’m not in East Lansing), I’ll usually listen to it on my iPod but this isn’t as consistent.

by SpartanDan on Sep 29, 2025 11:17 PM EDT reply actions

1) Raise my USC Trojans flag on the morning of the game. I leave it up till Sunday to celebrate a win and till Monday for a loss.

2) Wear my #8 jersey for the game.

3) Drink too much.

Los Angeles is like Manchester. There is a red team that wins championships and a blue team that doesn't.

by oc phil on Sep 30, 2025 3:06 AM EDT reply actions

Unspoken pessimism

This is my pre-game ritual, and it lasts every Saturday until kick-off.

by Jack Fact on Sep 30, 2025 8:55 AM EDT reply actions

Attempt to Out Drink

Anyone and everyone in knowledge my team will ruin any chance they have

Don't give up, don't ever give up ~ Jim Valvano

by AParker on Sep 30, 2025 9:22 AM EDT reply actions

in 2003

I had an old school LSU bucket hat that I would only break out as a rally cap when the chips were down (eg, UGA in Baton Rouge). Lost it in NOLA when we played OU. I am also a fan of the rally cap in football in general. inside out and backwards if we really need some john the conqueror root level gris gris.

by haveagreatday on Sep 30, 2025 9:26 AM EDT reply actions

Up and out of bed to Auburn fight song on alarm clock

Admire physique in mirror
Put on giant chicken suit and waddle to neighbor’s house
Wait for neighbor to step outside then scare the shit out of her and jump on my daughter’s bicycle.
Ride bike 3/4 miles downhill to Bojangles for sausage biscuit.
Wait for sheriff to arrive then spend gameday watching whatever game is on at the county lockup. They got cable.

I'm too drunk to taste this chicken.

by cowcollege on Sep 30, 2025 9:29 AM EDT reply actions 3 recs

Beer. Must be same beer throughout the game til that beer causes a loss.

So far, and I dunno why, but ever since we blew out Clemson, it has been Yueling. (I forgot to get beer the night before and was in a hurry and thats all that was left) The only two times I didnt have it we lost to both Florida and Utah. After blowing out Auburn in 2008, and feeling confident about the 2008 SECCG game, I went to tequila and we got blown out….I feel it had a transitive effect on our defense where either as I got drunker, they got weaker and Tebow got stronger, kinda like in ET where ET is getting drunk at home and it affected Elliot at school ….So I’m 0-1 with Tequila, 0-1 with Whiskey, and 26-0 with Yueling….gotta go with the flow…

Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

by mrpelicanpants on Sep 30, 2025 11:02 AM EDT reply actions

Shaker voodoo

I use the same shaker during win streaks. Once the shaker witnesses a loss, I retire it and get a new one.

My opinion about superstitions is as follows (and I’m willing to admit it’s crazy, but I don’t care): when one team is clearly superior to another team, they don’t do much. But all things being roughly equal (especially in a big, meaningful game), the team whose fans most closely adhered to their superstitions will have the bounces go their way. Basically there’s a big cosmic force of everyone concentrating hard on doing whatever they believe helps the team win…and maybe sometimes it’s enough to make a difference.

by allicolls on Sep 30, 2025 11:35 AM EDT reply actions

I, also ,as a long suffering Saints fan, follow that logic....it just took

a collective Voo-doo of 25+ yrs to make Harleys kick good in the playoffs last year when I was in New Orleans…it was locals only on Bourbon and that was the most friendly, crowded ass Quarter I had ever experienced….That was definately a once in a lifetime experience, watching the game with all the hardcore fans and having the kick go their way. Supremely Magical.
Although he may get cut this week, he did his job that night and more than likely get a free pass for drinks in the whole state of Louisiana for life.

by mrpelicanpants on Sep 30, 2025 12:27 PM EDT up reply actions

Agreed. Saints folks know how the voodoo works.

Watched that game in my 10-year-old Deuce jersey. The jersey had seen many losses before that season but amazingly, though I almost always wear it around the house while I’m watching the game at home, I hadn’t worn it during any of the 3 losses (partly because I was at the Dallas game in person and never wear the jersey to the game since it’s nightgown sized).

by allicolls on Sep 30, 2025 3:49 PM EDT up reply actions

Only one

When USC plays Michigan in the Rose Bowl (not likely to be an issue for a while, I know), I pretend to not notice my raised-close-enough-to-the-stadium-to-hear-band-practice wife’s plot to put one or both of the children in a Michigan shirt. She’s 2 for 2 on costing Michigan a Rose Bowl win.

"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"

by DC Trojan on Sep 30, 2025 12:34 PM EDT reply actions

Never buy alcohol on gameday

always buy a pile of fuckup juice beforehand. Never put cowbell in same place until something good happens (yep, i’m moving that bastard all over the living room on most Saturdays). Get mad-drunk after loss or get happy-smashed after win.

/hardly ever works
//Sherrill-era made me start this

MSState Football: You want INT's? We got 'em.

by CoastalCowbell on Sep 30, 2025 3:06 PM EDT reply actions