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The ''Sports Illustrated'' cover jinx is an urban legend that states that individuals or teams who appear on the cover of the ''Sports Illustrated'' magazine will subsequently be jinxed (experience bad luck). ==Explanations== While the list of "examples" of the jinx may be extensive, an individual record of 50 cover appearances〔 (【引用サイトリンク】url=http://i.cnn.net/si/si_online/covers/images/1984/1210_large.jpg )〕 by Michael Jordan did not hinder his success. Similarly, Vince Young also overcame the ''Sports Illustrated'' jinx by appearing on the cover of ''Sports Illustrated'' twice during Texas' National Championship season;〔 〕 Emmitt Smith appeared on the cover the same week the Dallas Cowboys won Super Bowl XXVIII. In the ''America's Game'' documentary, Smith recalled that he adamantly wanted off the cover for fear of the jinx. Regardless, the Cowboys went on to win their second consecutive title of the 1990s, and fourth in team history. Tony Dorsett appeared on the cover under the title of "Heading for the Heisman" in 1976 and indeed won the Heisman Trophy that year. Andrew McCutchen was featured on a September 2013 cover, during a season in which he later won the National League MVP Award and led the Pittsburgh Pirates to their first playoff berth in twenty years. The 2013 Seattle Seahawks appeared on a September 2013 cover in which the magazine predicted a Super Bowl XLVIII win for the team; indeed, the Seahawks won the Super Bowl the following February. Stephen Curry was featured on two consecutive May 2015 covers and led the Golden State Warriors to their first NBA title in forty years. A common explanation for the perceived effect is that athletes are generally featured on the cover after an exceptionally good performance, which might be an outlier compared to their usual level of performance. Therefore, their future performance is likely to display regression toward the mean and be less impressive by comparison.〔Goldacre, Ben. ''Bad Science''. Page 39. London: Fourth Estate, 2008.〕 This decline in performance would then be misperceived as being related to, or even possibly caused by, the appearance on the magazine cover. ''SI'' addressed their own opinions on the "alleged" cover jinx in a 2002 issue that featured a black cat on the cover.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sports Illustrated cover jinx」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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