Daily Archives: November 13, 2009

In Sports, Red Is Winning Color, Study Says

Apparently you can trend success by uniform color. Granted, this didn’t work so well for the Phillies this year, but their loss had something to do with Blue blowing calls that got the Yankees to the Series more than anything else.

In most instances however, wearing red is usually the color of success for sports teams.

I found this blog entry that gives more examples of this (you’ll have to go halfway down the page):

  • Stanley Cup Champions (2000-2008): teams that wore RED won 4 of the 8 (Detroit Red Wings-2 times, New Jersey Devils, and Carolina Hurricanes)
  • World Series Champions (2000-2008): teams that wore RED won 6 of the 8 (Arizona DiamondBacks, Anaheim Angels, Boston Red Sox-2 times, St. Louis Cardinals, and the Philadelphia Phillies)
  • Super Bowl Champions (2000-2008): teams that wore RED (or have traces of RED) won 4 of the 8 Super Bowls (New England Patriots 2002/2004-2005 and NY Giants 2008)
  • NBA Champions:(2000-2008 teams that wore RED only won 2 of the 8 NBA Finals (Detroit Pistons and Miami Heat). However, keep in mind that RED was a dominant color in the 90’s with Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls
  • English Premiere League (English Soccer) (2000-2008): teams that wore RED won 7 of the 8 titles (Manchester United 5 times, Arsenal 2 times)

Meep!

I found this funny story today:

If you’re a Muppet lab assistant or a cartoon bird pursued by a hapless coyote, you are no longer welcome at Danvers High School in Massachusetts. Or, at least, you’d better keep your mouth shut if you visit, because the school’s principal seems to think that “meep” is murder. Or something like that.wired.com, GeekDad Parents, Kids and the Stuff We Obsess About, Nov 2009

You should read the whole article. Not to mention the ABC article on the subject.

Think Progress » Will the RNC apologize for racist Facebook photo?

Republicans are really getting onboard this newfangled Facebook thingy. Enough so that they’ve learned to upload funny photos. Well, funny to them anyway.

The GOP has tried to distance themselves from this, but they haven’t denounced it. This, as usual, is the Republican Party trying to shush the sheet wearing crowd behind the curtain as opposed to revealing all the evil in their ranks and asking them to leave. I mean, hell, you are already losing elections, why not try to do the right thing for the first time since 1863?