At least, McCain will lose if Obama also ditches his hometown Chicago Bears and saddles up to another Pennsylvania team: the Pittsburgh Steelers. On November 3 they have a road game against the Washington Redskins. Not only will this lock down Pennsylvania for him, but a Steelers win over the 'Skins will probably mean an electoral victory as well. See, the Redskins have correctly predicted 17 of the last 18 elections based on their final home game before the election. The way it works is this: if the Redskins win that game, the incumbent party keeps the White House. The exception was in 2004, when Washington lost at home to Green Bay and John Kerry couldn't beat President Bush(there's an explanation for this though, and it's 9/11).
Honest lil' Barack Obama, bringing change to the White House? Sure, more like changing his favorite team! High five, anyone? ...No? Okay then...
This brings us to the ultimate bottom-of-the-ninth question: if Obama flip-flops on sports teams, what will he do when Iran, North Korea, Russia, Georgia, and Sudan all challenge us to a game of soccer and he has to pick a team from the US to send abroad? What will he do? What. Will. He. Do.
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Article comments
1 - Dr Dreadful
Well, North Korea, Georgia and Sudan are all crap, so nothing to worry about there. (North Korea had a good team once, in 1966, but have since sunk into obscurity.)
Iran and Russia, unfortunately, are a much sterner prospect and will probably beat any team Obama cares to put out nine times out of ten.
2 - Matthew T. Sussman
That might need to be another article in the polisports section. Don't you long for the days when an "evil" country's leader had a great sports team? Castro had his beloved Cuban baseball team. The Soviets had their dominant hockey. Today, the Axis of Evil has squat in the athletic world. This is why most people don't care about Darfur. Because Sudan's football team isn't kicking USA's ass.