Let's Go Packers!

If you're superstitious (and I am), you will reluctantly have to turn your eyes to the NFL this weekend, where the Green Bay Packers visit the Washington Redskins. How the Redskins fare in their final home game before the Presidential election has been a perfect predictor of the outcome since their inception, in 1933. If the 'Skins win, the incumbent wins. If the 'Skins lose, the incumbent loses.

Even the players seem to know about this:

This election season, Washington Redskins cornerback Fred Smoot has a predicament: For Kerry to win, the Redskins have to lose on Sunday — at least according to a bizarre statistical correlation that's been accurate for seven decades.
"We've got to win this game no doubt, but I'm hoping John Kerry can kind of reverse the curse," Smoot said. "I'm wishing him luck, man. This is the millennium for all trends to be broken."

Now time for a scouting report. The Packers are better. The Redskins are pretty awful. But they're at home. Time for everyone to be a Green Bay fan. Go Packers!