Sunday, January 18, 2009

Obvious Good Luck Charms

When Kendra and I move to a new city, we don't just increase its collective IQ--we also bring overwhelming success to its professional sports teams. Take a look at the season records of the teams below, and you'll see what I mean. In black are the teams' dreadful pre-A&K seasons. In red are the teams' amazing post-A&K seasons. The abrupt turnarounds are quite stunning and obviously prove that we are good luck charms. You'll note, however, that not even our superpowers were able to prod the Cleveland Browns into the postseason. Sorry Browns. We eventually got you a winning season, but we're good luck charms NOT miracle workers!

Cleveland Indians
2002: 74-88
2003: 68-94
2004: 80-82
2005: 93-69
2006: 78-84
2007: 96-66 and won Division Series against Yankees.

Cleveland Browns
2003: 5-11
2004: 4-12
2005: 6-10
2006: 4-12
2007: 10-6

Cleveland Cavaliers
2002-2003: 17-65
2003-2004: 35-47
2004-2005: 42-50
2006-2006: 50-32 and won first round of playoffs.
2006-2007: 50-32 and went to NBA finals.

Arizona Cardinals
2005: 5-11
2006: 5-11
2007: 8-8
2008: 9-7 and HEADED TO SUPERBOWL XLIII!!!

1 comment:

nmsc said...

I'm glad you are back to updating the blog, even if I'm only going to be able to check it on the weekends...Miss you...