superstition my arse!!

Batman, If you think this is somehow related to your blog rule of thumb, you are absolutely dead on. You see, its nice to write about how your superstition of staying in your batcave, covered in a blanket, with just enough of your right hand exposed to articulate the remote control has helped the Steelers win a super bowl -one for the thumb - (the pun was not lost on me, btw).. I wish you had the kahunaes to predict the win. Publish it everywhere, post it on all possible message boards, be our favorite punxsutawney phil.. but no... you had to wait till the day after to proclaim it. I thought you'd be a little different than all the experts on TV that you have complained about.. but alas!!

In fact, there was an article in the daily collegian (newspaper by the penn state students) before the superbowl about the superstitious practices of some pittsburgh fans like wearing the jersey to bed the previous night, going to the same bar and sitting at the same table for every game etc.

See, I had a streak of my very own going till the big game. I, for one reason or the other, had missed the start of every game the Steelers won this season. It could be due to late night bacchanalia or a clutch problem, i was missing the beginning of the game. So, i got thinking, what I do has such an effect on a group of people, hundreds of miles away, playing a game.. does it really? Do I want such absolute power? Do I really wanna play god with fates of 106 atheletes and a whole bunch of coaches and the millions of fans... I don't think so buddy. I don't want such power trips!! So I made sure I did not miss the start of the super bowl and inspite of Pittsburgh's ineptitude on offense for the longest time, they won. (Then again, that's one more thing in this world that does not depend on what i think or what i do).

How about the number of times both you and I have maintained the same seating arrangements and such for all the India vs. _____ cricket matches? Not everytime had India won. Superstition is a good tune by Mr. Stevie Wonder and nothing else. Take it and shove it. Hereafter, I am going to make sure I change my routine, seat, sitting style and everything else while I am watching any of favorite teams play (but again, could that be called a routine? You know, if you want to be called a non-conformist, you ARE a conformist, that sort of thing!)

Take this very personally :-))