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Flutie Flakes

Our excitement for cornflakes is only slightly higher than our excitement for dirt and Kardashian romances, but Flutie has something in his flakes.

In light of Jared Diamond’s piece on the dreaded cheerleader jinx, where he links the absence of pom poms and tight shorts to team success and Super Bowl appearances; we went looking for a cheerleader that might help to debunk that myth.

Enter: Flutie Flakes. Or more specially, Alexa Flutie.

The 23-year-old daughter of Heisman Trophy winner Doug Flutie seems like the anti-jinx to Diamond’s piece. Why? She shakes it for a perennial contender, her father is a scrambling sensation and probably a Canadian national treasure, and she almost certainly ate Flutie Flakes in the womb.

If the four most overrated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics, then the four most underrated things in life are Irish coffee, Gregg Popovich, South America and Flutie Flakes.

The proof is in the pudding:

If anyone can smash this vexing curse, then it’s got to be someone who grew up on Hail Marys and Flutie flakes.