Apparently, there is a bit of a legend regarding the Washington Redskins game held right before a Presidential Election. Since 1936 (when they were still the Boston Redskins) if the Redskins win, the incumbent party wins. If the Redskins lose, the opposing party wins. This held true until 2004 (they lost but Bush was re-elected). This year, the Redskins will be playing the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday Night Football.
Mrs. X and I compete in a little football pool against each other every year. What happens is that we pick the Bengals game and four other contests that seem like they would be close match-ups. Naturally, Pittsburgh-Washington would be expected to be a good game and I put it on our roster.
Given the trend regarding the elections, one would expect that I would prefer that the Redskins win and that Mrs. X would prefer that Pittsburgh would win. Guess how we picked the game?
I picked Pittsburgh.
She picked Washington.
BTW, Mrs. X is leading our picks by 5 games. Make of that what you like ;)
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