Michael Giberson
From out of the depths of data mining comes this amazing fact:
“If the Redskins win their last home game before the election, the party that occupies the White House continues to hold it; if the Redskins lose that last home game, the challenging party’s candidate unseats the incumbent president.” (From Snopes.com, via Geekpress.com.)
In fact, in a string of 17 consecutive “predictions” going back to the days of the Boston Redskins in 1936, a Redskins victory in the last home game before the election has presaged a victory by the incumbent party.
This year, the last Redskins home game before the election will be against the Green Bay Packers on October 31.