Many fans focus on what happens during the big game and don\u2019t worry about anything else.\u00a0 In reality more happens before a game to prepare than actually happens during the game.\u00a0 One major part of every athlete\u2019s life involves superstitions.\u00a0 Superstition is doing something ordinary or not the same way before an event on belief that the same result will occur every game.\u00a0 This is why if a player has a good game, the next game he will do everything the same to try and have another good game.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some people don\u2019t think superstitions are real but an athlete will do anything to try and be successful at the highest level.\u00a0 Superstitions can range anywhere from eating the same food as the day before or can be something as extreme as wearing the same underwear every day and not washing them.\u00a0 Some superstitions that go on in DHS are having team prayers before every game, eating the same food every day and wearing the same undershirt or undershorts under a uniform for every game.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Being an athlete I have my fair share of superstitions as well. During basketball season no matter how weird it may sound I always rub senior Matt DeShone\u2019s head three times front to back. It started as a joke but then we got on a roll and I\u2019ll do anything to keep winning.\u00a0 During baseball season I always wear the same undershirt. I have done it for a number of years just because our team has done well so I want it to continue.\u00a0 I remember one game I forgot it, and not wearing that special shirt gave me a feeling that I was going to play bad.\u00a0 This is why superstitions play a major role in my life.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0Superstitions also affect professional athletes.\u00a0 When the Detroit Tigers came to Midland to talk about themselves they admitted that Justin Verlander goes and eats Taco Bell before every start that he makes.\u00a0 Another Tigers pitcher, Drew Smiley, said that every game he wears the same shorts under his uniform. He said the shorts he wears were the first shorts given to him by the Tiger\u2019s organization so they are special to him.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Superstitions range from all ages and will forever be a part of the game.\u00a0 No matter how weird or crazy they may be,\u00a0athletes have to do what it takes to do well and succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Many fans focus on what happens during the big game and don\u2019t worry about anything else.\u00a0 In reality more happens before a game to prepare than actually happens during the game.\u00a0 One major part of every athlete\u2019s life involves superstitions.\u00a0 Superstition is doing something ordinary or not the same way before an event on belief […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[83,152,265,67,328,318],"class_list":["post-4203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-3-sports","tag-dhs","tag-drew-cassiday","tag-opinion-2","tag-sports","tag-superstitions","tag-update"],"yoast_head":"\n