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Alex Ovechkin Needs To Have Sex Before And After Games, And Other Fantastic Athlete Superstitions

No exceptions! Ovechkin’s logic is understandable, except why is sex also a requirement after every game? Has he figured out a way to store up good luck for the future? Lapham’s Quarterly has a roundup of odd athlete superstitions, and they range from the unsurprising (everyone remembers Michael Jordan’s old gross basketball short thing from Space Jam, right?) to the complicated to the inexplicable.

You might think an open-handed slap across the face would be a really upsetting thing to receive before a game, but perhaps that’s the point. You can see the rest of the list here, where you’ll learn that, among other things, not one but two athletes in two different disciplines both rely on the dark magic of fried chicken before they play.

[h/t The Billfold]