What do a goat, babe Ruth, a witch doctor, the city of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and a Japanese statue of Colonel Sanders all have in common?

They are all supposedly responsible for curses placed upon sports teams that prevented them from winning for years, sometimes even centuries.

While such curses might be difficult or impossible to prove, they certainly are real for the

fans who think that they are affected by them. Learn more about some of the greatest sports curses in the world and how they supposedly

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click on the link in the show notes. The official policy of the Everything Everywhere Daily Podcast is not that curses are real.

However, regardless of whether they are real, they certainly can feel like they're real if you happen to be a supporter of a team or live in a city that seems to be cursed.

So let's start out with perhaps the most famous curse, at least in American sports, the curse of the Bambino.

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