Max (Boston, MA): If you love the Bruins so much why did you completely jinx them (just like the Patriots)? They had all the momentum and of course you had to write an article about them winning. Way to crash the bandwagon.

SportsNation Bill Simmons: Not sure if you know this, but I don't have the power to jinx teams. I am not a witch doctor. That column was about getting sucked back into a sport that I had written off. I write about my life, and watching those Bruins games had become part of my life, so I wrote about it.

I'm a fan of Simmons but he's now made a couple of remarks like this defending himself after the Patriots lost. He is the king of the jinx (as media people go). He has written countless times about the inverse jinx, announcers jinxing games by calling it over, plus many other things.

It is a classic sport fan thing to behave as if things they do in their lives actually affect the games. It makes us feel more connected to something that we rationally shouldn't care that much about. Just as we rationally know we aren't jinxing or inverse jinxing the team.

Bill is only being so defensive because he knows that by his own standards he did jinx the HELL out of the Patriots. He put his job before his teams and he is having trouble reconciling that and Max from Boston is feeling the brunt of it. I thought Simmons was better than this. Even if he knows, and we all know that the loss had nothing to do with him he should behave as if it did given that it has always been part of his shtick.

To clear the air... this last season I was in a group that was doing the espn eliminator challenge and the pig skin pickem. Coinciding with the Vikings late run I started picking against the Vikings in both leagues for inverse jinxing reasons. Then came the Washington game. I'd already picked the skins earlier in the season to win. inverse jinxing dead. vikings dead.

Sorry. My bad.

It's true, i am a believer. I unfortunately am a jinxer of the Wild. Whenever I watch them they give up goals. So I turn the channel and when I go back to the game they have usually tied it up or at least scored a goal. At this point I convince myself that i'm not a jinxer. Within 10 min. the other team will score a goal. Therefore, I can never watch the Wild again.

Jinx's are for real. Tread lightly...

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Max (Boston, MA): If you love the Bruins so much why did you completely jinx them (just like the Patriots)? They had all the momentum and of course you had to write an article about them winning. Way to crash the bandwagon.

SportsNation Bill Simmons: Not sure if you know this, but I don't have the power to jinx teams. I am not a witch doctor. That column was about getting sucked back into a sport that I had written off. I write about my life, and watching those Bruins games had become part of my life, so I wrote about it.

I'm a fan of Simmons but he's now made a couple of remarks like this defending himself after the Patriots lost. He is the king of the jinx (as media people go). He has written countless times about the inverse jinx, announcers jinxing games by calling it over, plus many other things.

It is a classic sport fan thing to behave as if things they do in their lives actually affect the games. It makes us feel more connected to something that we rationally shouldn't care that much about. Just as we rationally know we aren't jinxing or inverse jinxing the team.

Bill is only being so defensive because he knows that by his own standards he did jinx the HELL out of the Patriots. He put his job before his teams and he is having trouble reconciling that and Max from Boston is feeling the brunt of it. I thought Simmons was better than this. Even if he knows, and we all know that the loss had nothing to do with him he should behave as if it did given that it has always been part of his shtick.

Good point. It is amusing how he got so defensive here when he is the same guy that often talks about jinxs. That's my only real beef with Simmons - that he is sometimes a bit wishy-washy and arrogant. Overall, he's still my favorite writer though (Britt Robson comes in a close 2nd).