Talk:Super Bowl curse

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Strength of schedule?

What about Strength of schedule? As far as I remember, in interconference games, the teams were matched according to their record in the previous season, thus good teams faced a stronger schedule. -- Matthead  Discuß   13:21, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Another Super bowl curse

Which ever team's venue the superbowl is played at, that team hasn't made the playoffs during the season. Sunday Night Football had a little graphic that Al Michaels was talking about going back to 2001. It happened to the Indianapolis colts last year when the Superbowl was in Indianapolis(the colts going 2-14). Since the Superbowl is going to be played in New Orleans, it's a good possibility that it's going to happen this upcoming season with the New Orleans Saints now that the head coach is suspended for the entire 2012-2013 season

Other Super Bowl curses

There are other perceived curses involving the Super Bowl:

• Tampa Bay Curse...already addressed
• No host team team has ever made it to the Super Bowl; (i.e., to play the SB in their home stadium). Interestingly, at least a few teams have gone the year before or year after (missing it by 1 year). It's been called the Super Bowl Home Field Curse (or similar wording) in the past.
• There is another possible curse being discussed; 'no team has ever lost at the Super Bowl host site field during the regular season, and gone on to win the Super Bowl there that season.' Very few links or research. Too vague, and likely O.R. as of yet. Doctorindy (talk) 15:07, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

In response to the last note, five teams have lost at the super bowl site and went back to win it there the same season. They are the 1970 colts, 1971 cowboys, 1981 49ers, 1993 cowboys, and the 1998 broncos. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bryn Morgan (talk • contribs) 20:28, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

You can also consider this one, no team has won the super bowl the year before their venue/city hosted the game. i also looked to see if there were any teams that won the super bowl the year after their venue/city hosted the game, and only the 1983 raiders won the year after their city hosted it. (unless you count the venue, since it was hosted in the rose bowl, and the raiders played in the memorial coliseum. then you could technically say that no team has won the super bowl the year after their venue hosted it.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bryn Morgan (talk • contribs) 20:45, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

New England Patriots

I don't see how them going 16-0 one season and 11-5 the next is a Super Bowl hangover. 11-5 is hardly a hangover. They were the first team to miss the playoffs with an 11-5 record since the NFL expanded to 6 playoff teams. They only missed the playoffs because the current playoff system in the NFL is horrible (8-8 and 9-7 teams got in while 11-5 got left out). And besides, part of their struggles were because Tom Brady was out for the season with injury. I'd say considering the injuries, 11-5 was pretty impressive. I personally thought they'd go maybe 8-8 or 9-7 without Brady. So yeah, don't see why they're mentioned as a Super Bowl hangover. Supergoalie1617 (talk) 16:36, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Eliminate article there is not curse

The Patriots went 16-0 after losing the super bowl. And the curse hasn't been consistent (unlike the Madden Curse). The curse has only worked a few times. We should eliminate this article.--Jerzeykydd (talk) 15:14, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Score sequence

I am wondering why scores are often listed with the losing score first eg "they lost against the chargers 20-35" when it seems normal convention would be to say, "they lost against the Chargers 35-20." I'm just wondering if there is some reason that I'm not aware of. Flat Out let's discuss it 21:25, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

New Editor!

Hello, everyone! I just wanted to come on before diving into this article to introduce myself, let everyone know what I'm planning on doing with the article, and see if anyone has run into the same issues I am running into and has suggestions. I'm working on this article for a class (it's true), but I also really want to improve the page for its own sake, and for the sake of its readers.

The first thing I'm encountering when looking at this page is the rather blocky bullet points that take up the bulk of the page. I'd like to reformat these to be a little more user-friendly, a little easier to pick out what you're looking for, in the case that a user comes in looking to see if a specific game falls into any of these categories. Any thoughts on whether a table format might work better than paragraphs, or vice versa?

Looking forward to working on this page! Morrieormaury (talk) 22:08, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

curse/theory

I'm not sure if this is mentioned Wikipedia anywhere, but recently from 2023-24, there have been mentions of the logo of the Super Bowl game. Starting the 2021 game during SB LVI, the logo features the Lombardi trophy, the Roman numerals of the game, colors and something relating to the host city (i.e. Super Bowl 58 is hosted in Las Vegas, the Las vegas strip is featured.)

This is more specifically about the colors. There is a theory that the colors of the logo determine the opponents in the Super bowl. Going back to Super Bowl LVI logo, the numerals were colored in orange and yellow, representing AFC champion Cincinnati Bengals (orange) and the NFC champion Los Angeles Rams (yellow). Yellow was on the bottom and the Rams won the game. With the next year, the colors were green for the Philadelphia Eagles and red for the Kansas City Chiefs. Red was on the bottom therefore the Chiefs ended up winning.

Now in 2024, the colors for SB 58 logo are purple and red, largely believed to represent the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers. However, the 49ers advanced to the Super Bowl and the Ravens lost to the Chiefs in the AFC conference championship. So technically the curse is broken.

Here's a link for more information. I don't care if this topic is addressed in this article or not.

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