SA Footy

Most of us are superstitous about something or other...black cats, breaking mirrors, walking under ladders or maybe you won't go out onto the oval until you've stroked your lucky wombat ...so what are yours???

For me it's lilies...won't have them in the house. Get that from my mother's family...they're a funeral flower so it's bad luck to bring them into the house...I guess it's probably an Irish thing.

Regards
JAS

"When you put cheese on your pasta, dream about what you want out of life and you'll realise it that much easier."

This is one that I made up. The reason is that Japanese are very superstitious, yet they are also very careful about fatty foods and stuff. So what better way to justify to my wife heaping copious amounts of cheese on my blognese when there "Is already so much in the recipe!" and I'd "get fat!"? Well, the more cheese I spread, the longer I am dreaming about that big house with the lovely garden out the front etc...

P.S I love cheese on my pasta. Lots of it!

Lucky Boxer shorts ... It's all I ever wear in the undergarment department, but my Homer Simpson pair seems to be the one required when serious luck is needed.

The Liverpool Champions League T-Shirt I wore on the night of our famous win in Istanbul 2005 has since also delivered a good strike thereafter.

Drinking - For some weirdass reason I always played better footy after getting on the sauce the night before (and usually the night before that).

PS: Theri, hear hear my man ... It's not Pasta as far as I'm concerned unless it has a high quantity of cheese involved.

Never take banana's out on a boat.

Booney wrote:Never take banana's out on a boat.

Havent heard that one before Booney

I've had a coupla ex's who freaked out if I put shoes on a table, at first I just thought it was coz they were clean freaks, but apparently it was for superstition reasons.

Constance_Perm wrote:I've had a coupla ex's who freaked out if I put shoes on a table, at first I just thought it was coz they were clean freaks, but apparently it was for superstition reasons.

Yeh my Mum has always said that but I think its only for new shoes??

The Ash Man wrote:

Constance_Perm wrote:I've had a coupla ex's who freaked out if I put shoes on a table, at first I just thought it was coz they were clean freaks, but apparently it was for superstition reasons.

Yeh my Mum has always said that but I think its only for new shoes??

Did your mum ever date Connie?

Pseudo wrote:

The Ash Man wrote:

Constance_Perm wrote:I've had a coupla ex's who freaked out if I put shoes on a table, at first I just thought it was coz they were clean freaks, but apparently it was for superstition reasons.

Yeh my Mum has always said that but I think its only for new shoes??

Did your mum ever date Connie?

Lost me on that one

Must admit I can't think of one I have.
When I played footy and cricket I had some regular "routines" more than superstition, ie left pad before right or left boot before right but that was merely because Im a man of habit.
I think I did used to have some lucky jocks but they disintergrated many moons ago, its probably why North haven't won a flag in 18 years!

As a kid I was hugely superstitious, I used to do some dopey things, I can still to this day rememember riding my bike to school one morning when I was about 13 and I saw a can on the road, I thought to myself "I must kick that can or North will lose this week". I missed it, but I kept on riding, I reckon I got about 50 metres down the road until I decided I had to turn back and kick the bloody thing otherwise it would bother me all week!

Wedgie wrote:Must admit I can't think of one I have.
When I played footy and cricket I had some regular "routines" more than superstition, ie left pad before right or left boot before right but that was merely because Im a man of habit.
I think I did used to have some lucky jocks but they disintergrated many moons ago, its probably why North haven't won a flag in 18 years!

As a kid I was hugely superstitious, I used to do some dopey things, I can still to this day rememember riding my bike to school one morning when I was about 13 and I saw a can on the road, I thought to myself "I must kick that can or North will lose this week". I missed it, but I kept on riding, I reckon I got about 50 metres down the road until I decided I had to turn back and kick the bloody thing otherwise it would bother me all week!

And what happened?

We had so many superstitions in our house when I was growing up that I can't remember half of them

Definitely not putting new shoes on the table was one of them.
Don't walk under ladders another (I've since done this several times - I'm still here..lol)

I remember when I was 16 I broke the bathroom mirror (No, I wasn't looking into it at the time!! ) and my mum came running in, and she jokingly said "Oh dear that's going to be 7 years bad luck" .... .... I was devistated and actually 'focused' on this for a few months, before I thought, yeah watever

The 7 years were actually quite good

I don't know if this is supersitious, but I suppose it is.

My grandmother always said that if you are giving a purse as a present you need to put a coin in it, meaning that the reciever will never be 'without' money.

Also don't know why but apparantly you're supposed to put a coin in a set of knives when you give them as a present ??

My mum insisted on chucking rice on the ground immediately outside the church when I got married, so that it was the first thing the bride and I would step over / on as we headed outside. Bride went along with it, albeit that neither of us exactly knew why we were doing it. Bride also went the whole old / new / blue / borrowed thing, and also had about 8-9 of the older aunts / ladies who were there insisting on putting little horseshoes on her wrist as we walked down the aisle.

Think most wedding ceremonies can be completely full of them if you want them to be, or let them be.

Wear my lucky red jocks for footy games. One of these days they'll do their job and I'll play a decent game.

Quichey wrote:Wear my lucky red jocks for footy games. One of these days they'll do their job and I'll play a decent game.

If you put a black cat in the microwave it's supposed to be bad luck for the cat.

therisingblues wrote:If you put a black cat in the microwave it's supposed to be bad luck for the cat.

and bad luck for who ever has to clean the microwave

Always butter the toast on the LIGHT side.....

Never the dark.....it's a Star Wars thing....

"Join the Dark side Jabber"
"NO Darth....the Butter on the Light is the only way......"

While batting in cricket i un-do my left glove and do it up again before every ball i face.

Reason- I once batted with a glove where the velcro was old and cruddy therefore it didn't stay wrapped on my left glove, the club had only just started up at that stage so there was no new pairs left in the club cricket bag.

I had to tighten the glove up everyball i faced, when on 99 i decided to concentrate harder and not re-wrap the glove for the first time in the innings, sure enough gone, clean bowled, middle stump out the ground.

So from the next innings on i re-wrapped my left glove velcro everyball even though i went and brought brand new gloves.

Always wear my old West Adelaide t-shirt when ten pin bowling