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Superstitions and sports are inseparable, but a few sports franchises and athletes have endured runs of such poor fortune that they seemingly can only be explained by the supernatural. Hexes such as the Curse of the Bambino and Curse of the Billy Goat that bedeviled the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs are familiar to most sports fans. Since Detroit traded QB Bobby Layne in 1958, the Lions have endured a lengthy playoff drought. No hex, however, may be as strange as the one involving a fast-food icon. Here are seven lesser-known sports jinxes.
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- Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)