Vikings Jinxed By Website – 45 Points
Posted by Commissioner in Media on Jan 27th, 2010 | 3 comments
The Vikings prematurely published a page on their website declaring they had won the game, prior to them actually playing the game. Oops.
As any sports fan worth his salt can tell you, that is a guarantee that you will lose. It’s up there with the Madden Curse in fame and certainty.
It wasn’t a PQE already, but I think that’s worthy of some points. It’s definitely stupid, and we feast on stupid events in the NFL.
So… 45 Points to Vikings owners.
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Does the jetsshop.com posting of AFC Championship gear the week before Colts-Jets also count for this PQE?
I wasn’t intending to award points for that… for two reasons. One, the Colts had the same kind of thing on their website… and two, I read a lot at the time that it was apparently standard practice to pre-sell “championship” gear like that.
Posting a page on your website that you’ve won a game you haven’t played yet… seemed a little more “dewey defeats truman” to me… you know?
Makes sense. But someone at ESPN (either Page 2 or possibly Bill Simmons?) made a big deal about it being the front page of jetsshop.com for about a day. Doesn’t really matter to me, though, as I’m quite far out of contention.