I'm often amazed by the many rituals sportsmen partake in before a game or race. Lebron James throwing the chalk in the air with his hands extended wide like an eagle, and Valentino Rossi stooping down for a couple of minutes before he mounts his motorcycle before a race.

What does all of this mean? Does this insure victory, or maybe safety and good health regardless of the outcome? Even when a game is lost, the same ritual is repeated the very next night and after coming back from an injury, the ritual is still repeated. You would think they would have learned a lesson and change the ritual after every loss or injury. That would be the smart thing to do, seeing the previous one didn't work. I guess making sense doesn't matter all that much with sportsman and athletes.

They'll continue to not wash the uniforms during a season, sleep in the uniforms before a big game, throwing chalk in the air, clapping the hands a certain amount. It still will mean absolutely nothing, because it all will still come down to skill and as long as athletes have been playing sports they'll continue to get injured. I see this as another way of cashing in on the endorsements! I'm not mad at you.

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