The Carolina Panthers beat the Washington Redskins, 21-13, on Sunday afternoon at Washington D.C.'s FedEx Field. and if a "Redskins Rule" discovered by one statistician years ago holds true, it's very good news for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Steve Hirdt is the executive vice-president of the Elias Sports Bureau, and he's worked on the "Monday Night Football" staff longer than anybody else -- a total of 31 years. As the show's director of information, it's Hirdt's job to come up with interesting statistical tidbits for the show's announcers to throw out there. On Oct. 30, 2000. Hirdt was in a Washington, D.C., hotel room, preparing for the upcoming MNF matchup between the Washington Redskins and Tennessee Titans. He was hoping to find something specifically interesting for color commentator Dennis Miller to discuss with the presidential election coming up on Nov. 7.
Quite by accident, he discovered a "Redskins Rule" that has proved to be just about flawless over the last 18 such elections, and one that will come into play when the Redskins face the Carolina Panthers this Sunday -- just two days before Election Day.
"I started looking through the Redskins' press guide where they list all the scores in the back," Hirdt said, via ESPN. "I was making a list of the last home game before the election because that was the game we were covering. I tried to align it with the Democrats or the Republicans and then looked at the incumbents.
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