Getting Ahead of Ourselves

[FMPanther]

It does in the land of Unicorns and Pixy Sticks!!

I know you meant nothing by it. I know that I am very supersticious towards UNI athletics. I just hope our team is ready to go this Sat. against YSU.

[JayJ79]

I'm not ACTUALLY superstitious, but I'll sometimes do silly things just for luck.

For instance, I've worn the same shirt to all the UNI games that I've attended from the Iowa State game on (IaSU, Drake, IlSU, SIU, and WIU. And while I wasn't able to attend the SDSU game, I did wear the shirt that night). Don't worry, I do wash it regularly. hehe.

I thought about wearing the pair of Fox River Socks that i won off of OPR for every game, but they're a little too small for me, so I've only worn them to the SIU game.

Might be kind of interesting to start a thread to see what other Panther fans do "for luck" or as a matter of superstition.

[DomeRanger Posse]

I wear the same clothes every game day: tan pants, purple for life t-shirt, UNI game jersey, brown shoes and brown belt. If I don't, I feel unlucky about the game. This past weekend I was wearing something different to go get my running around done, and my wife pointed out that I need to get suited up for game day.

On the disgusting side of superstition and clothing, I knew a hockey player years ago that scored a goal in his first game as a freshman and wore the same underwear every game day for the next four years. And no, he didn't wash them. But hockey locker rooms are the most disgusting places on earth, so no one probably noticed the smell.

[MiloCat]

Does the black cat curse apply to other black cats?

[Panther-Sheik]

Always the UNI jersey and UNI cap...old, stained and smelley as it is, as my wife points out (cap, not jersey). I, too, am superstitious about my teams.

[Marc Wigim]

Does the black cat curse apply to other black cats?

Funny story from the SIU game... during the tailgate we were sitting around and suddenly off in the distance this HUGE black cat stands up on its hind legs and just stays there for about a minute before it started gracefully strutting away. Everyone around us considered it good luck since it looked so much like a panther. Must've worked.

[igo4uni]

I always wear clean clothes to the games.

[UNIGrainer]

They should have a special section for smelly superstitious fans

[joecooll6]

As you know UNIGrainer, Id probably have to sit in that section.

[Cat80]

Ahead of myself?

ES was quoted in today's DMR that they 'can't get ahead of themselves.' Fortunately that doesn't apply to fans. I'm so far ahead of myself I need help. Does anyone know of a Wifi place in CF where I can surf for airfares to the southeast immediately after the semifinal win? I came up roses in 2005 ten minutes after the TSU win and will need the same access this year. So how's that for looking ahead in presuming a home semifinal win? However what I wear on gameday is decided wholly by whim and laundry status.