If you are what your record says you are, UCF would be in the CFP multiple times
The overrated and over used Bill Parcells saying. Too funny. That coming from the same man who was highly superstitious.
Parcells was never really
explicit about it, but the legendary coach had some “peculiarities.” While his superstitions weren’t
always on display, they were always there in the background nonetheless.
Take his office for example. No matter what team he went to, a set of three decorative elephant carvings followed. He never really explained it, but there was something about the positioning of their trunks that brought him good luck. Those elephants sat behind his desk in every office that he had.
Or take the face down pennies for example. Parcells believed picking up a penny with the tails side up was bad luck, so he had a habit of placing face down pennies in his office or on the sidelines as if daring fate to intervene.
Whatever you do, don’t interrupt Parcells’ morning routine either. While coaching
the Giants, he’d stop every morning on his way to work for a coffee at one particular coffee shop in New Jersey, drink it down, and then head to a second coffee shop before finally making his way to the practice field.
Perhaps the most pronounced example of his superstitious nature was the case of
the red towelsent to him by friend Rich Conti prior to the Giants’ 1986 Super Bowl win.
As the story goes, the towel brought Conti, who was a high school football coach, luck during the 1985 and ’86 New Jersey state championship. He and Parcells met at a football camp a few years earlier, so when the Giants made it to that first Super Bowl, Conti figured his friend could use that luck. The two men have been trading the towel back and forth before every major game since.