Every fan base has one — that one superstition nobody can quite kill off, no matter how many times somebody tries to explain it away with math. For this matchup, it's the Bet Curse: the theory that the second real money lands on a Logan possession, something goes sideways. A stalled drive. A bad snap. A sack that seems to come from nowhere.
It came up again on the broadcast today, right on cue. Logan had strung together a clean opening drive off the kickoff — chunk gains, a first down, the offense finding a rhythm — before a four-yard sack popped up out of nowhere on second down. Cue the group chat. Cue the curse talk. And cue the split: Team Adam says it's real. Team Logan says it's noise.
"It's not a pattern. It's a highlight reel of bad luck, stitched together after the fact and given a name."
Team Adam: It's real
The timing is too consistent to be nothing. Every time there's something riding on the drive, the wheels wobble — a sack, a stuffed run, a drop at the worst possible moment. Coincidence doesn't happen on that kind of schedule. At some point you have to call it what it is.
Team Logan: It's a myth
Small sample, big imagination. Football has sacks and stuffed runs in every single game, curse or no curse — you just remember the ones that fit the story. And besides, the very next snap after that "cursed" sack went for a first down. Some curse.
Neither side is backing down, and honestly, neither has much incentive to. That's the fun of it. The scoreboard, for its part, isn't taking a position — it just keeps moving. Logan converted the very next snap to move the chains, and the drive is still very much alive, 1st-and-10 from the 30 with most of the first quarter left to play.
So, real or myth? Ask again after the final whistle. Until then, the debate — like the drive — continues.