Does anybody believe in the "Redskins curse"?

[BringBackJoeT]

Originally Posted by BDBohnzie

Mods - to thread hell and step on it.

One of the most storied franchises in league history, and now there's a curse? Give me a break. 3 Super Bowl Wins + 2 NFL Championships in 10 appearances. Players like Baugh, Taylor, Mitchell (both), Jurgensen, Huff, Kilmer, Brown, Krause, Green, Monk, Theismann, Mann, Coleman, Butz...coaches like Flaherty, Lambeau, Graham, Lombardi, Allen, Gibbs.

All franchises have their ups and downs, and some can't ever seem to get it together. But the Redskins certainly aren't cursed by any means...

Seriously, I'm surprised it's been allowed to last this long (even though I'm doing nothing to cut it short by weighing in).

This idea of a "curse" is what you begin to think when: (1) you take the ups and downs of your favorite sports team too seriously, and (2) you have an inflated view of your team's position in the sports universe.

"Curses" have become unfortunately popular thanks to the over-the-top promotion of the supposed Bambino curse on the Red Sox by media franchises bent on milking the Yanks-Sox rivalry for all it is worth. That talk is now over, thankfully. We don't need revivals of such stupidity going forward. Seriously. There are a number of teams in the NFL that have never made it to a Super Bowl, let alone won one. And there are other teams in other sports that have endured strings of bad luck without any silly "curse" discussions. The Pittsburgh Pirates, for example, are careening toward an MLB record-tying 16th consecutive losing season. No mention yet of a Blackbeard curse, because that would be idiotic, when you stop to consider the real-life factors that are at the heart of the Pirates' problem. Same for all other teams in all other sports that have endured hard times.

C'mon, this is just dumb.