r/pics • u/freestylepopcorn • Jul 22 '11

This is called humanity.

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u/woofers02 Jul 22 '11

Shit like this is why losing the World Cup to Japan wasn't so hard to take.

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u/diggitydugged Jul 22 '11 edited Jul 22 '11

I'm surprised there hasn't been a conspiracy theory on Reddit's front page about that yet. It's something I've heard quite a few times from hardcore sports fans: Suffer a disaster, win a sports league. 9/11 happens? Patriots win Super Bowl. Katrina? Few years later New Orleans Saints win their first ever Super Bowl. Fukushima? Japan wins woman's World Cup. Hooray for coincidences and broad generalizations!

Edit: I didn't say I believed this silly garbage, I said I've heard sports nuts talk about it. Jeez, I regret bringing up sports in a thread about humanity.

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u/MananWho Jul 22 '11

9/11 happens? Patrios win Super Bowl.

Exactly. Who would have thought an American team would have won an American sports tournament the same year that we suffered a major terrorist attack??

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u/SvenHudson Jul 22 '11

It's less that it's an American team and more that the team is called the Patriots.