The SI cover jinx strikes again!
COLUMBIA, S.C. — I ran into the SI Cover Jinx on Thursday at a little meat-and-three on Broad River Road. “What are you doing here?” I asked. “Shouldn’t you be chasing the Detroit Tigers? I’m surprised you weren’t in Cleveland [Thursday] placing a banana peel on the pitching rubber, so Justin Verlander would slip and tear his ACL.”
Jinx laughed so hard he almost choked on his collard greens. “Hasn’t Detroit been through enough?” he said. “Besides, I love it down here. Even the vegetables can give you a heart attack.” Then he pointed his fork at me. “You cover college football,” he said, “you know exactly why I’m here. I’m completing the set.”
Completing the set? “Completing the set,” he said. “We put outregional covers for this year’s college football preview issue. We profiled three teams that were supposed to shake up the BCS. I already got the first two. I sucker-punched Oregon (losers to Boise State) on opening night. Nine days later, I gave Oklahoma State a nasty case of the Case Keenums. Tonight, I’m here to do a little Hotty Toddy hellraising. I’m going to kill Ole Miss’s national-title chances — as dead as the mom in As I Lay Dying.”
SI.com
9/24/9
