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Famous Athlete's Superstitions
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Athletes often have strange supersititions about playing their respective sport. Here is a list of some famous ones.
| | Michael Jordan (a graduate of North Carolina) always wore his blue North Carolina shorts under his Bulls uniform for good luck. |
| | Baseball pitcher Turk Wendell brushes his teeth and chews licorice between every inning. |
| | Mike Hargrove (before he was a MLB manager) would come to the plate, where he would perform a series adjustments – fiddling with his batting gloves, pants, sleeves, wiping perspiration off his lips and pushing down on the top of his batting helmet before he was ready to step in. After each pitch, he would repeat the routine. It earned him the nickname, "The Human Rain Delay." |
| | Wade Boggs eats only chicken the day of a game and draws a symbol that means "To Life" in the dirt before every at-bat. |
| | Former pitcher Mark "The Bird" Fidrych used to play with the dirt on the mound and talk to himself before every inning. |
| | The NHL's Pelle Lindbergh would wear the same old orange t-shirt from a Swedish sporting goods company under his equipment. Each time the shirt started to fall apart, he had someone sew it up. Then, between periods, he wouldn't drink anything but a Swedish beverage called Pripps and would only take a sip if there were exactly two ice cubes in the cup. A particular team trainer, by the way, could only deliver that cup to him. |
| | NHL goalie Patrick Roy would talk to the posts of his goal during the game because they were his "friends" |
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