The Curses Of American Sports
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- The sports curses in America are present in every sport. With the curse of the billy goat, the curse of the bambino, the curse of Billy Penn, the Based God curse, madden curse, and many others, these have become scapegoats for tortured fans. These fandoms include the Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox, Detroit Lions, Cleveland, Atlanta, Buffalo, and DC sports fans. But with all the pain, the joy from watching a curse end is like no other.
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Fun Fact. Bill Buckner was the closest player to Hank Aaron's HR # 715. Buckner is the outfielder that jumps on the wall as it goes over.
very fun fact
Bill Buckner also wore a Chicago Cubs batting glove on his glove side hand! Curse within a curse
Fun fact: the ball was caught by a teammate in the bullpen. so you’re not totally correct but he was the closest player currently in the game to it.
And we know what happened to Bill Buckner... that son of a bitch...
@@bryanreed3559curseption
How in the hell is there not curse on the Cleveland Browns???
How Paul Brown was run out of town is clearly the turning point.
If you watch the 10th inning of game 6 of the 1986 bill Buckner was unfairly labeled as the sole scapegoat. The entire Red Sox team unbelievably blew that game
Agree. Buckner had no chance of making a play even if he fielded it cleanly. And the game was already tied.
@@matts7019 and that season Buckner was filled in with a defensive replacement bc he was a 36 year old longtime veteran with bad knees but the manager John McNamara got sentimental and wanted him on the field to celebrate to World Series win
"The entire Red Sox team" is a definite overstatement. Apart from Buckner, the only other players who deserve blame are the two relief pitchers and maybe the catcher.
Reliever Calvin Schiraldi blew that game. John McNamara’s decision to leave Buckner in the game instead of taking him out for defensive replacement Dave Stapleton is also highlighted surrounding that.
Curse or just fixed and scripted? Tell the truth!!
Also I forgot to mention the presidents trophy curse (for hockey) which to those who don’t know what the presidents trophy is, it goes to the team who has the best regular season record in the NHL for that season, and the curse goes if you get the presidents trophy(for the best record) you won’t make the Stanley Cup finals, a recent example of this is the Boston Bruins last season, who actually funny enough got the best regular season record ever in NHL history and lost in the 1st round by the worst team who clinched the playoffs: the Florida Panthers.
The "curse" more says that you just won't win the Cup than not even making the Finals. It really comes more down to teams that pace themselves in the regular season have more in the tank for a deep Cup run. When the Canucks won the President's Trophy in 2011, they responded to it by saying that all it meant for them was guaranteed home-ice advantage, nothing more.
@@anakinsolo719 I agree
My bruins lost
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@@bostonweirdo9236 rip bro, also you lost your captin
That Falcons super bowl loss still makes me wanna throw up. Haven’t watched any re-runs of that nightmare game since it happened.
At least we have the Dawgs.
That was the first time I did mushrooms couldn't believe what I was seeing lol
That heartbreak still hurts!
@@Falconsfan1020 that is true however we haven’t won the big one in our 57 year history of existence
The Curse of the Colonel is a neat baseball curse from Japan. Fans of the Hanshin Tigers apparently stole a statue of Colonel Sanders from a KFC and threw it into the Dōtonbori river after winning the 85 Japan Championship. The tigers have yet to win another since
They didn't just randomly decide to steal it: fans who looked like players were jumping into the river - one of the stars was a white American with a beard, and in their drunken revelry that was close enough.
What about the Rondo Curse? He cursed Chris Paul, called him selfish and said he would never win an NBA title.
The damn Lil B curse kept my Thunder from a title 😢
lmao no way, i was just watching a youtube vid about it then this gets uploaded
I feel your pain bro. As a Rockets fan I’m still heartbroken over 2018 😭
I'll always say that the Curse of the Billy Goat was really the Curse of John McGraw/Fred Merkle. The Cubs hadn't won a World Series since 1908, when they won the NL pennant controversially due to the Fred Merkle "Bonehead" incident. After the end of the season, John McGraw gave his players medals that said "The Real National League Champions - 1908". Knowing that John McGraw would do anything to win, I wouldn't put it below him to go get a hex put on the Cubs, not allowing them to win again until they admitted they stole the Giants' pennant of 1908.
You did forget the Curse of Dusty Baker. The team Dusty Baker would manage would do well and do long playoff pushes but never win the WS. This would be followed by the team after a certain amount of years would go on to win the WS (the only team not to do this are the Reds) the Astros finally gave Dusty his first managerial ring in 2022.
Now the gift of Dusty hopefully gets us another ring this year and we suck after he retired 🤣
@@LordWafflestomp nah we would win another ring just to keep the curse going
Dusty won a ring in 81
@@therealjaystone2344 yes but this is talking about his managerial career
Cubs fan here and we're still waiting for our first title in 115 years. 1908 chants are getting really annoying. I keep getting harassed and heckled for it.
The only reason Lil B removed his curse on KD when he went to the Warriors is because he's a Warriors fan
19:20. As a ducks fan this one is my favorite. They sold shirts saying “you can’t win here” and everything. Good times. Good times.
You forgot to include in the NFL the Pottsville curse on the Cardinals, still ongoing.
Ironic how the team that beat them in Super Bowl XLIII is from Pennsylvania.
Another curse in the NHL was the Curse of Bobby Orr (or the Curse of Noel Picard) which was on the St. Louis Blues. After Picard tripped Bobby Orr in the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals after Orr scored the cup-winning goal the Blues would never make the Stanley Cup Finals until after Picard died in 2018 when a year later they would finally make the Finals, beat the Bruins in Game 7 in Boston and finally win the Stanley Cup. The Blues failed twice to go to the finals, first in 1986 losing Game 7 to the Calgary Flames and the double overtime goal by Steve Yzerman of the Detroit Red Wings in 1996. It was a 49-year curse on the Blues.
Canada's Cup Curse is called The Curse of McSorely's Stick.
In the 1993, Montreal Canadiens coach Jacques Demers challenged the curve on Los Angeles Kings defensemen Marty McSorely's stick. McSorely was awarded a penalty, and the Canadiens scored a game tieing goal on the powerplay and won in OT. This change the tides of the series, and the Canadiens won the Cup.
In 1994, the Vancouver Canucks played for the Cup. Losing to the New York Rangers.
It was another 10 years before a Canadian team would play for the Cup. And despite a goal that was CLEARLY in, the Calgary Flames lost the Cup to the Tampa Bay Lightning.
And none of the 4 Canadian teams to play for the Cup since 2004 have won. Canada sold its soul for a cheap penalty.
True
Or since there are far more American teams than Canadian teams it's statistically more likely an American team wins the cup. Not to mention the dominance of teams like the Blackhawks, Lightning, Penguins, Red Wings, etc. It's incredibly hard to get to the Stanley Cup let alone win it.
@@itscebby8882 historically the NHL has had more teams in the USA then in Canada. Canadian NHL teams have appeared in more Stanley Cup finals then the rest of the teams combined. It isn't about there being more American teams.
Sure. I'll give you the dominance of other teams. That's only natural. But there have been some amazing Canadian teams that have got there and not won.
I think you could say that the curse of the Bambino’s story is more known than the Billy Goat Curse, as the curse inherently connected to the game of baseball. Plus the Yankees and Red Sox were bitter rivals and it revolves around the most famous player in American Sports history.
What does Michael Jordan have to do with the Yankees and Red Sox?
@@christo9120 lol
Totally agree. I think if you polled a 100 baseball fans, 90% would say the curse of the bambino is the most known curse in baseball.
Feel people know the 108 year drought more than the curse especially since the cubs were already 37 years in before the curse even began
@@gagemartin7207 most definitely.
As a diehard Maple Leafs fan i was expecting the Curse of Harold Ballard to appear but I'll take it not being on here.
Also shocked the AZ Cardinals weren't mentioned.
The Ballard Curse is probably the biggest one in hockey, though I wonder if it's a curse placed on them by the hockey gods or just a fuckton of bad karma after all the horrible things that Ballard got away with. Maybe both.
San Diego sports teams needs to be on this list
Pretty sure the Buffalo Sabres did not play in the Stanley Cup final in 1980. The Islanders beat Philadelphia that year.
Love your videos keep up the good work.
Another curse that is missing is curse of the pottsville maroons. So this affects the Arizona Cardinals who have the longest drought in all of professional sports and have only won 2 NFL champs. Now this curse is odd as it is dealing with their first win. They lost to the Maroons but the Maroons were kicked out of the league and the Cardinals were given the championship but they didn't accept it until years later which was after their won their second one. Since then they have been cursed by the town Pottsville even after they have moved from Chicago to st Louis and then to Arizona.
The ambulance pulling up at 15:37 killed me 💀💀💀
This guy deserves more subscribers. Great video
As a NASCAR fan I always have the Sports Illustrated curse associated with Dale Jr's move to Hendrick in 2008. After an okay 2008, 2009 was bad and he never won until 2012 while the rest of his organization won a lot.
Hm... I remember hearing the term "Curse Of The Bambino" LONGGGGGGGGG before 1990.
If there was someone that could have cursed the Minnesota Vikings, it would have been Ole Haugsrud. He was an owner of the Duluth Eskimos/Kelleys in the 20s but was promised part-ownership of the next team that could called Minnesota a permanent home. That ended up being the Vikings who ironically also were given the same colors as Ole Haugsrud's high school of Central High School of Superior, Wisconsin and bared the same name. Ole lived up to March of 1976, within a year of the Vikings last Super Bowl appearance.
you're so underrated bro you'll blow up soon
The San Jose sharks has a similar losing record to that Calgary curse but it was in buffalo. I think it was longer but covered less games
Lil B was a warriors fan thats why he lifted the curse :)
I'd like to place an honorable mention with the Curse of the Presidents Trophy, that being that the last team to win the NHL (most points, awarding them the President's Trophy) and the playoffs(winning the Stanley Cup) was the Blackhawks in 2013. Since then, their team has imploded become a contender year on year for worst team in the league, with little chance of changing that anytime soon.
But the Blackhawks won another cup the next year that's hardly a curse. Plus they just won the Bedard sweepstakes. The Blackhawks stars aging is what really got them, it happens to every dominant team.
Washington’s curse would be The Curse of Dan Snyder 😂
As a Steelers fan, I believe you should include the curse of disrespecting the Terrible Towel - ask TJ Houshmandzadeh and the Bengals, and LenDale White and the Titans.
But your Calgary / Anaheim example was still 4 years shorter than the curse the Flyers had over the Penguins in Philadelphia - 15 years, from 1974 to 1989.
I actually pointed this out on another sports curse video, but thought I would note it here regarding Canada's unnamed Stanley Cup curse.
...During the '95/'96 season, Roy clashed multiple times with then-Canadiens head coach Mario Tremblay. Then in a game against the Red Wings, he gave up 9 goals. After he was pulled, he stared right at the Canadiens' owner at his seat by the players bench and told him it was his last game. (source: Wikipedia.)
...Following a suspension, Roy was traded to the Avalanche in the most lop-sided deal in NHL history. The Avs were formerly the Quebec Nordiques who relocated during the off-season. With Roy, the former Nordiques would win the Cup in the first year of their relocation.
...No team from Canada has won the Cup since.
...Granted, no real 'curse' was inflicted, but it makes for a great story. The greatest goaltender of his time period, has a falling out with hockey's most decorated team in Montreal, gets sent packing to a team that used to play in Canada, who then proceed to win the Cup. That right there, is curse-selling material.
...So here's the thing. I have no doubt that McDavid and Matthews will eventually hoist Cups in Edmonton and Toronto. But IMO, I wouldn't be surprised if Montreal doesn't win another Cup over the course of my lifetime, and they eventually call it the "Curse of Patrick Roy."
You didn’t mention the curse of the Kardashians
Good one! Humphries, Odom, Thompson, etc.
A lot of these "curses" are actually overstated, but they do make great lore for teams overcoming their issues.
The Lil B curse is legendary
Eagles curse had nothing to do with Vince Lombardi it was Chuck Badnarik who didn’t want to see Eagles win another championship, and hated NFL players being over paid to play one way while he was underpaid playing both ways, he enjoyed being on last Eagles team to win a title and Eagles didn’t win Super Bowl until after he died…it’s easy enough to look up
18:30 The Maple Leafs have their own course that'll keep them from hoisting the cup: The Course of the Zamboni Driver.
As a lifelong White Sox fan the main problem is the ownership, front office and coaching staff. For real, Reinsdorf is the cheapest owner in the MLB and the front office is terrible. Not to mention Rick Hahn doing absolutely nothing and the players being paid loads of money only for them to not care as much as other pro ball players. I want to see the Sox be contenders but I know as long as Reinsdorf is the owner it will not happen anytime soon.
I have 3
The Curse of Y2K (Yankees) - Only won 2 World Series since 2000, every other season is a collapse or shocking loss
The Curse of the King (CLE teams) - Since LeBron left Cleveland, the Cavs, Guardians, and Browns have all had an unbelievably horrible season at least once.
The Golden Curse (CA teams) - Raiders move to Vegas, Rams and Kings repeatedly fail, Lakers collapse, Clippers lose their groove, Dodgers fail to reach the promised land, Athletics moving eventually, Padres, Giants, 49ers, and Angels can't get their act together. Chargers become a team of "just there" mentality.
why did i go to youtube because of a curse video and see you uploaded this 😆
To be fair, The Curse of the Bambino lasted longer than the curse of The Billy Goat. The Cubs just happened to be on a 37 year World Series drought already when the Billy Goat Curse started.
Lil B mainly lifted the KD curse since Lil B is from the bay area and KD went to the Warriors, the team he’s a fan of
Idk if you would call it a curse. But every year that Kendrick Lamar has released an album since 2015 the Warriors have won a championship.
Only Big Dick Nick could break the Lombardi curse
In the 2004 movie Fever Pitch, the fictional story sees the Red Sox win the World Series in the background as the male and female leads stay together. Also in 2004, the Curse of the Bambino was finally lifted in real life as the Red Sox also won the World Series. What a coincidence
I feel like the Mlb has the best curses, they’re the most memorable, longest, and the fans are the most relieved too when their teams curse is finally broken
I'm 39 and I've only seen my favorite baseball team win the World Series once and my favorite NFL team win the Superbowl once since they have only won a single Superbowl
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Wonder what the curse currently affecting the Boston Bruins was caused by. Because you can't convince me they aren't cursed.
A big one I know of is since the Edmonton Elks in the CFL changed their name from the Eskimos they haven't won a home game since that day. which is the longest streak in all North American sports.
There’s a couple that are not known but my friend has a history predicting the wrong team will win the championship in sports days before they lose or the series starts and in the nfl draft every qb he’s high doesn’t pan out or just become a backup instead of a franchise qb
What's worse for Canadian NHL teams and their fans, is that the Knights didn't even exist when the Habs won the Cup in 1993.
He forgot the Campbells chunky soup curse
Cleveland Indians/Guardians do not have the longest drought in North American sports. The Chicago/st Louis/Arizona Cardinals curse is longer.
The joe namath rumor has been around for decades now. Would be interesting to see where it originated
Buffalo didnt make the SCF in 1980. It was The Islanders and Flyers
Pretty much all the Baseball Curses have been broken. Red Sox, Curse of the Bambino; Broken. Cubs, Curse of the Billy Goat, Broken. White Sox, Curse of the 'Black Sox', Broken.
Lil b is from the bay thats why he lifted the curse
A smaller one from Cincinnati, The Curse of Bo Jackson.
In 1991, the Bengals defeated the Houston Oilers in the wild card round. The following week, they would match up against the Raiders. In that game, Bo Jackson would get injured on a tackle. The Raiders would win the game, but Bo's multisport career would never recover. Following the injury, the Bengals would begin struggling to win a playoff game. Including that Raiders game, the Bengals would lose 8 playoff games across a 31 year period including losing in 5 straight seasons from 2012 to 2016. What didn't help was the circumstances of a lot of these losses.
In 2006, Carson Palmer tore his ACL and MCL when tackled by Steelers defender Kimo von Oelhoffen on the first offensive play of the game. The Steelers would go on to win the Super Bowl.
In 2012, they would get blown out by a TJ Yates led Texans team. They would also lose to the Texans the following year.
In 2016, Andy Dalton would get injured weeks before the playoffs, but the wild card game was played well by AJ McCarron. With little time left with the lead, Vontez Burfict intercepted the Steelers' pass deep in Pittsburgh territory. It seemed the drought was over, but Jeremy Hill fumbled the ball on the very next play. The Steelers suddenly had life. Ben Roethlisberger drove down the field slowly when Burfict laid a helmet to helmet hit on Antonio Brown. Flags were thrown, and a scuffle began (including Steelers coach Joey Porter coming from across the field for some reason). In the scuffle, Pacman Jones pushed an official, tacking on enough penalty yards for the Steelers to easily take the lead with a field goal and end the game.
Finally in 2022, after a complete culture shift bringing in coach Zac Taylor, Joe Burrow, and other players not involved in 2015, the curse was finally lifted when the Bengals defeated the Raiders (fitting). For good measure, they also went to the Super Bowl.
It's safe to say the Curse of Bo Jackson is over, and any struggles the Bengals may face in the future are considered unrelated. The struggles of the Reds have been sometimes tied to this curse as well since Jackson also played baseball, but Bo's injury occurred a few years before the Reds' last playoff series win.
I was waiting for someone to mention this
There's no bigger form of cope than believing in a curse. "M-muh team ain't winning because of muh curse! I-It's totally not cuz they suck and have incompetent management! It's the supernatural forces!"
Also, all these curses are just some dude saying "ur not gonna win lol" like if that's all it takes to curse a team, then literally _every single_ team/athlete from every sport in the entire world is "cursed".
I like how the bengals (recently) had the longest playoff win draught in the nfl but arent cool enough to have had a curse.
The thing about curses is that it's such an American thing. In sports like football, teams that haven't won in ages are just shit but if it was in America they would be cursed. I think it's just a way of scapegoating the team from being bad
Philly had The Curse of Billy Penn for a while. This was because no building was supposed to be built taller than the William Penn statue on top of city hall. Liberty Place was the first building that was built higher than the statue which was built in 1984 a year after the Sixers won the NBA title. No Philadelphia team won another championship until the Phillies in 2008...technically I guess as the Philadelphia Stars won the USFL title in 1984 and the AHL's Philadelphia Phantoms won 2 Calder Cups not to mention Villanova winning the NCAA title in 1985.
I find it funny how serious people take baseball curses. But i its just funny
This man did not just start a video with Webster's Definition
In 10 years my Charlotte Hornets will be in a video like this. Because we are a terrible franchise.
There's not a name for it, but it's been said that the Vikings are cursed because their founder was originally supposed to be a member of the AFL when it was founded but jumped ship to the NFL as it was more lucrative than the start-up AFL, meaning his "betrayal" cursed the franchise before it even played a game.
Thank you Based God
The curse of Labonte is a good one too.
Didnt need to do the jets fans with that last statline lmao
I would say that the Seattle Mariners should be on list. Since they're currently the only MLB team that never made the World Series. Many fans blame the Trident logo that represent the letter M, cursed the team. According to the Greeks, pointing the trident down is consider bad luck.
Actually, Tom Brady lost the Superbowl the same year he was on the cover to the Eagles. The year that the Patriots won the Superbowl was the year prior when Rob Gronkowski was on the cover and he got a season ending injury. So the only one to win a Superbowl the same year after being put on the cover was Patrick Mahomes, surprisingly, earlier that year, he dislocated his knee but since he was double jointed, he came back three weeks later.
The Sabres have only made the Final twice. In 1980 the Islanders defeated the Flyers in the Final.
Btw the highschool you showed for Stafford is the wrong highland park, I went to the one you showed in Illinois
The Minnesota sports curse isn’t so much of a curse anymore. It’s just an inevitability.
I always harted the Billy Goat Curse. The Cubs had already gone 37 years without a title by 1945, having lost six straight World Series they appeared in!
*The Sabres only lost it 2 times, not 3
Haven’t watched the video but here’s one many of you probably haven’t heard of: the curse of Bo Jackson. Jackson suffered a career ending injury against the Bengals in a 1991 playoff game. The raiders went on to win that game. It would be 31 years before the bengals won a playoff game despite 8 tries, being favored in half of them.
You forgot my curse in 1993 I put a curse on the NHL that no team from Canada will ever win the Stanley cup again after Montreal won it. I have a bounty on me in canada
Imagine if there was a fan base where it was possible to be over 100 years old, have a memory of the very first game your team ever played, from it's inception...
And still never have seen a championship.
I'd make an argument that this would be the ultimate curse. The curse of just simply existing. What if I told you that there was in fact a team to which this scenario applies?
The Philadelphia Phillies debuted on May 1, 1883. During the 20 years where winning the National League Pennant meant you were the champions of baseball, the Phillies never one. When the World Series started in 1903, the Phils proceeded to pass up any chance to beat the American League for the next 76 years. Finally, in 1980, after 77 years, of Series play, and 97 years in existence total, the Phillies finally won.
In theory, it was possible to walk down the street in Philadelphia in 1979, having been born in 1874, recall being at the park in May of 1883, and, at the age of 105, have no memory ever - Ever - of seeing a championship.
You know what's even more amazing? There's not a single reference to any curse whatsoever regarding the Phillies.
So much for curses. Curses are excuses made up by fans who simply can't handle that their team fell short, plain and simple. As a fan of the franchise with the most losses of any team on planet Earth (and I mean that 100% literally - regrettably), I've seen enough to know how it works.
Good video
An interesting one is that i think only 2 teams who have beat the Bucs in the regular season also won the Super Bowl that season
Uhhhhh you forgot something...
- D.C. United won the MLS Cup four times, starting in 1996.
- Atlanta United won the MLS Cup in 2018.
I think its safe to say the curse of the bambino is more well known than the chicago cubs curse, even though the cubs was longer
No curse of Ryan Fitzpatrick? Look that up, every time he was brought in as a back up the starter got hurt, not like sometimes, guaranteed EVERY time. Suprised nobody doesnt talk about it more
Nah that is too many coincidences for the lions curse
great videoooo
You didn’t talk enough about Harold Ballard with the Leafs
I’m a simple man I see the Based God in thumbnail and I click
If Suckadelphia curse continues in all 4 major sports( and I mean 2 chips in 160 sport seasons) I will not shed a single tear
I'd like to hear about international sport team curses now pls
Damn, dat segment on Joe Namath must be the root cause why the Jets started rotting into a Bad Apple!!
NY Jets fans find brethren in NY Knicks and NY Rangers fans.
I’ve cursed the Boston Celtics to never win an NBA title as long the puto Jeff is still working in the TD area.
27:44 Atlanta United won MLS cup in its second year of existence. While MLS is seen as clear fifth wheel in some places, not in Atlanta
hate Philly teams (and fans) but their curse reversal is the most iconic lol
The cubs winning was the last good moment our city has had
How the hell do you leave out the curse of Harold Ballard?
You forget The Curse of Caddlestick and the Cowboys Curse
13:56. You can hear this video without hearing it.