# Non-American Dopers, do you have any "cursed" sports teams? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 28, 2004, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-dopers-do-you-have-any-cursed-sports-teams/271645 "2004-10-28T11:15:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-dopers-do-you-have-any-cursed-sports-teams/271645/21 "2004-10-29T21:42:12Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Me too. The best part…we can’t find any black Japanese (not surprising), so let’s throw in a statue of Col. Sanders. Yeah! Yeah! Woo! Umm, Randy Bass was white. I found [this USA Today](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://images.usatoday.com/sports/bbw/_photos/2003-08-20-inside-bass.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.usatoday.com/sports/bbw/2003-08-21-leading-off_x.htm&h=180&w=180&sz=14&tbnid=MKZzxQvICiwJ:&tbnh=96&tbnw=96&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Drandy%2Bbass%2Bbaseball%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26c2coff%3D1%26sa%3DN) story about the Colonel curse. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-dopers-do-you-have-any-cursed-sports-teams/271645/22 "2004-10-29T22:52:05Z")
Dangit…could’ve sworn Randy Bass was black. Must’ve been thinking of someone else. Still a great story. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-dopers-do-you-have-any-cursed-sports-teams/271645/23 "2004-10-30T07:41:58Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Dangit…could’ve sworn Randy Bass was black. Must’ve been thinking of someone else. Still a great story. Kevin Bass, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-dopers-do-you-have-any-cursed-sports-teams/271645/24 "2004-10-30T08:17:06Z")
> [@bluecanary](#): > > British football (soccer) fans tend to think of their own team as cursed in my experience (that is, until a Billionaire comes in to buy them). I’ve noticed this from some Scots I know and also a friend who’s parents came from Columbia and Nicaragua. It seems no matter how good the team is, after any loss they feel they’re cursed, even if there’s only one loss all year and they win the title. Must be cultural though, as they usually only think this after they’ve been exposed to the Goat curse, curse of the Bambino (Ty Cobb was better anyway 😛 ) ot the black Sox scandal. I follow sports pretty closely and can’t think of any “curses” mentioned outside the US or Canada. But if there are, please, please correct me. I love following this kind of stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-dopers-do-you-have-any-cursed-sports-teams/271645/25 "2004-10-30T13:48:08Z")
I curse Man %$#@ing United all the time. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-dopers-do-you-have-any-cursed-sports-teams/271645/26 "2004-10-30T13:56:06Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > You can see poor Tim Henman sweating bullets at Wimbledon, under the weight of his countrymen’s hopes and expectation. No, I think the British public have more anticipation over whether he’ll make another Persil ad rather than on his unlikely success at Wimbledon. > [@GorillaMan](#): > > > [@roger thornhill](#): > > > > Not Norwich City? > > I was trying not to be too obvious 😉 Well they do have a top notch restaurant on the grounds. I’m sure that has an award or two…what? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-dopers-do-you-have-any-cursed-sports-teams/271645/27 "2004-10-30T15:35:32Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > Kevin Bass, perhaps? YES! Thank you! And the Colonel story makes a little more sense. Randy Bass: white American with beard. Col. Sanders: white American with beard. Like I said…a _little_ more sense. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-dopers-do-you-have-any-cursed-sports-teams/271645.md?page=1)