Do you believe in sports curses?
In 1951, the Mayo football team won the the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. According to local legend, as the team celebrated on the way home in an open-top bus, drove right through a funeral procession without stopping or showing proper mourning respect.
Folklore says an outraged local priest placed a curse on the team, declaring they would not win another All-Ireland final while any member of that 1951 team was still alive. Mayo proceeded to lose 11 straight finals in the past 75 years.
The last living member of the team passed away in 2023. And today in Dublin, Mayo finally won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship for the first time since 1951.
- This is the time of year when Grizzly bears descend on Brooks Falls in Alaska to feed on salmon. The national park service offers a live cam of the area here and it’s worth a watch.
InsideUSC with Scott Wolf 
When will the curse on USC’s coaching choices be lifted?
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September 26th, 67!
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You know it brother! Waymo and King take us to the promised land behind an improved O-line and improved D-line!
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Oregon or Bust —
Coach Riley: Make it public, promise it & Deliver.
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Ireland is incredibly beautiful (save Donegal) along the edges Mayo has a very striking coast line – one regions has vertical blocks resembling ‘long bricks’ white that face the Atlantic.
Fool thing for a priest to have uttered such as fools there be that ignore said ‘curses’ as meaningless never realizing what spoken words of condemnation, especially from a prelate, what could ensue…..and according to this account did in fact.
What any of this happens to do with USC I know not.
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Or the grizzlies…
#SlowNewsDay
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The significance & connection is obscure….only Scott and Charlie comprehend it.
Personally, I think Gabby should post the Cheerleader video again…. so nobody misses it.
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one cannot help but to conclude a similar curse has hit SC: until the Dummies, Admin and alums give the wolfman proper respect, they will never make the CFPlayoffs!
#SoLetItBeWrittenSoLetItBeDone
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Charlie, perhaps the curse doesn’t apply to hoops – roughly a .500 record versus the mighty gutties since 2015 or so.
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time to channel Nel Wooden “….you leave my Jonniekins alone!”
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Charlie deserves you, Alv.
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Alv is the gutty stopper.
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#EvenNellHasACourtNamedAfterHer
#InYourCommieFace!
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With Charlie’s financial support, we look forward to the “Jonniekins gender neutral bathroom” at Pauley.
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The way Charlie sez “in your commie face” makes it sound unbrotherly …
#…ThisIsNotTheInsideUSCWay!
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DON: I’m too much of a pragmatist to believe in curses
KAM: Although maybe there is one on SC football because of the Bush scandal and Carrot leaving SC immediately thereafter before the sanctions hit
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How can you look at Hillary’s once lovely face and not believe in curses?
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DON: Fishing is a sport and who is better at than grizzlies?
KAM: You cannot see live all the great spots on earth so Wolf is bringing us one that we probably had never seen
DON: You’re always standing up for the guy. Do you have a Retainer with him or something?
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I stick up for Scott all the time —but I cannot and will not defend that grizzly video…
#ABridgeTooFar!
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Concept for next Christopher Nolan movie: Gunga Din returns to life and bugles a warning to our ships in the gulf just in time for them to reposition themselves and sail to victory….
#DylanMulvaneyAsGungaDin
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