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Where there's a will, there's a way to put my foot in my mouth
By Jeremy Johnson
jjohn308@mscd.edu

Stevie Wonder put it best: “Very superstitious, the writing’s on the wall / Very superstitious, ladder’s ’bout to fall … When you believe in things that you don’t understand, then you suffer / Superstition ain’t the way.”

Anybody who read my boneheaded, ill-considered column last week knows that I placed a joking, but apparently very real, curse on the women’s soccer team. I asked them: “Why don’t you lose, already?”

On Sunday, hundreds of miles from home, they did. It was the first time in nearly two years.

The news devastated me. Was I really a curse? Am I truly capable of such evil intent? Are the women, who have trusted me and given gracious interviews for the last year and a half, going to murder me and sink my body to the bottom of the Platte River?

Then I began to question my power of will. If I could will the women to lose, perhaps I could will myself to win the lottery or will my childhood dog, Sandy, back from the dead.

Really, I can’t be sure that it’s my fault they lost. I think I remember someone else in the office suggesting those sacrilegious scribbles of a week ago. And what about head coach Danny Sanchez? He won his 100th game on Friday then loses his first game in two years on Sunday.

Coincidence? I don’t know. Perhaps such a personal milestone simply begets an overdue loss.

Maybe my theory is right. Maybe it is best for Metro to make an early mistake. After all, with the streak-monkey off their back, they are now primed for postseason glory.

And maybe, just maybe, it’s all pure coincidence. That’s most likely what it is.

Stevie Wonder might be blind, but any fool can see that, streak-ending loss or no, the women Roadrunners are big-time winners.

When they go the rest of the season undefeated to win their second NCAA championship in three years, remember that I told you so.

And know that I willed it to happen.