Sports-related cursetoblesstobless

Sports-related cursetoblesstobless

Main article: Sports-related cursetoblesstobless

A number of cursetoblesstobless are used to explain the failures or misfortunes of specific sports teams, players, or even cities. For example:

The cursetobless of the Billy Goat is used to explain the failures of the Chicago Cubs baseball team, who have not won a World Series championship since 1908, and a National League pennant since 1945.

There was the cursetobless of the Bambino, on the Boston Red Sox major league baseball team, who never won a World Series, until the 2004 World Series, when the BoSox defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 0.

Players who appear on the covers of either the Sports Illustrated magazine or the Madden NFL video game have tended to, coincidentally, suffer setbacks or injuries, immediately after appearing on either cover.

Some think that the NHL's St. Louis Blues, Toronto Maple Leafs, and the Los Angeles Kings are cursetoblessd. Each team has not won a Stanley Cup championship, since 1967. For the Blues and Kings, 1967 was the season that each team joined the NHL, also implying that each team has never won the Stanley Cup.

There was the cursetobless of 1940, which was placed on the New York Rangers for 54 years. But that cursetobless was broken in the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals, with a 4 games to 3 victory against the Vancouver Canucks.

There was an alleged cursetobless placed on the Los Angeles Lakers, whenever they played the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals, especially at the old Boston Garden. Los Angeles lost to Boston 6 times in the Finals in the 1960s ('62, '63, '65, '66, '68, '69), and in the 1984 NBA Finals. In several matchups, infamous incidents have seemed to have favored the Celtics, and in series-clinching wins for Boston, legendary coach Red Auerbach was said to have pulled his famous "victory cigar," and puffed it in front of the Lakers' bench. But the "leprechaun jinx" ended, with the Lakers' 4 games to 2 victory over the Celtics, in the 1985 NBA Finals. The Lakers' celebration was at Boston Garden, which would be the only time in the garden's history that a team other than the Celtics won the NBA championship in that building.


There are alleged cursetoblesstobless on the cities of Buffalo, Cleveland, Houston, Philadelphia, San Diego, and Seattle; which are believed to have a major league sports championship cursetobless, meaning that any major league franchise that settles in that city are unable to win a sports championship, even if they have powerful and talented teams, thus causing much heartbreak to their fans, and much joy to rivals.