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Is there a 'Ted Cruz curse' in Texas sports? Theory gains traction after Longhorns' Sugar Bowl loss
The Houston Texans have a home game this Saturday in Houston against Cleveland. The Texans need to make sure that Carnival Cruz does not attend this game and do to the Texans what Carnival Cruz did to the Univ. of Texas Longhorns and the Houston Astros.
Link to tweet
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/trending/article/ted-cruz-curse-htown-sports-texas-longhorns-astros-18586798.php
The "Ted Cruz curse" reached new heights this week with his appearance at the 2024 Sugar Bowl between Texas and Washington setting social media abuzz with claims of a jinx.
Some sports fans claimed that when Cruz attends a sporting event, the team he is supporting gets cursed and loses the game. That hypothesis has held up over the past few months.
The U.S. Senator watched Alabama beat Texas A&M in College Station in October, talking with media prior to the game about NIL legislation. He then watched all of the Astros losses in the 2023 postseason, which coincided with the in-state rival Texas Rangers winning the World Series. Cruz capped off this stretch watching the Longhorns last-ditch effort to beat Washington fall short in the College Football Playoff Semifinal.
He also attended Texas State's upset of Baylor in September.....
Speculation about a curse first gained popularity about a half-decade ago. Cruz attended Game 7 of the 2018 Western Conference Finals, which saw the Rockets miss 27 straight 3-pointers and get eliminated by the Golden State Warriors. The next year, Cruz posted on Twitter, now known as X, a photo of him at the NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship game between Texas Tech and Virginia. He posted the photo with the Red Raiders up by one point with 35 seconds remaining. Texas Tech lost in overtime.
Some sports fans claimed that when Cruz attends a sporting event, the team he is supporting gets cursed and loses the game. That hypothesis has held up over the past few months.
The U.S. Senator watched Alabama beat Texas A&M in College Station in October, talking with media prior to the game about NIL legislation. He then watched all of the Astros losses in the 2023 postseason, which coincided with the in-state rival Texas Rangers winning the World Series. Cruz capped off this stretch watching the Longhorns last-ditch effort to beat Washington fall short in the College Football Playoff Semifinal.
He also attended Texas State's upset of Baylor in September.....
Speculation about a curse first gained popularity about a half-decade ago. Cruz attended Game 7 of the 2018 Western Conference Finals, which saw the Rockets miss 27 straight 3-pointers and get eliminated by the Golden State Warriors. The next year, Cruz posted on Twitter, now known as X, a photo of him at the NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship game between Texas Tech and Virginia. He posted the photo with the Red Raiders up by one point with 35 seconds remaining. Texas Tech lost in overtime.