Gay marriage translates to winning sports teams

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Kudos to Hugo Schwyzer!  Now this is great investigating journalism.  Schwyzer's theory is every country  where gay marriage is legalized, their sporting teams do phenomenally well.   For example:

• Spain legalizes gay marriage in 2005 - Spain wins Euro 2008 
• Canada legalizes gay marriage in 2005 - Canada sees biggest medal win at the 2006 Winter Olympics
• South Africa legalizes gay marriage in 2006 - South Africa wins 2007 Rugby World cup
• Massachusetts legalizes gay marriage in 2003 - Do you see many upset Red Sox and Celtic fans?

Schwyzer goes on to predict championship seasons for USC football, UCLA basketball, the Lakers and Anaheim Angels if voters don't overturn the California Supreme court ruling.

Also noted on Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish: after Denmark introduced gay marriage in 1989, they went on to win the European World Championships in 1992. 

Simply coincidence? 

Source: HugoSchwyzer.net

Originally posted by Samantha Vicars

Comments

[Barbara Wilcox]

And Cal football won (OK, tied) its first Pac-10 championship in 2006, the same year the California Legislature voted for marriage equality. But Schwarzenegger vetoed it, so we didn't get to go to the Rose Bowl.

I would say this season is looking pretty good.

[Josh]

The two are not related. It goes with the old story about New York. As the amount of garbage increased in New York, so did crime. So is it safe to say that garbage creates crime? No. An increase in population creates both an increase in garbage and crime.

The association between legalized gay marriage and sporting performance in either a coincidence or they are both connected to some other unifying factor. So what is that unifying factor?

[corrective_unconscious]

The unifying factor is humor.

[Ray - Jackson, MS]

As dumb as this story is at least it is about gay people and not some fag stalker's love letter to a breeder with a decent body badly disguesed as a sports story like most of the "sports" stories on here.

[Greg]

Karma anyone?

[bruno kevin]

yokiero de eso

[zarx on gay.com]

Correction, for it's not a theory but a theoritcaly probablity that may be empirically true. If you write prose then write it, but if you want to quote logistics then know it. While just plain "theory" should never make the news since people specualte daily from nuances to nuisances.

Furthermore, what "purpose" would this knowledge serve?

In contrary, maybe your cite is flawed since happiness tends to raise living standards then maybe these areas are "more happy" than most, so in effect, you are dealing with another "effect" rather a cause. My logic leans toward other constraints that lend this thoery its promise--seems like somone has pulled a "post hoc fallacy" on us again.

[zarx on gay.com]

--and could it be intelligence since intelligent people are more happier, which presuposess that an intelligent community, the area would be more happiers--and intelligent people would favor gay rights. So if one were to find the presuppostion to "this" theory, I would say that intelligentsia is the cause of successess in happiness, marriage and "wins!"--let's give credit where credit its due, a working premise.

[Tarheel]

Well... UCLA will not win this coming year in basketball. It will be North Carolina (and we know gay marriage is not legal there. God bless the Bible Belt). Simply because the only people that NC lost are their 3rd string point guard and a back up post player. Everyone else is returning. Throw in one of the top recruiting classes in the country and they will be the champs. It really won't matter who gets married in California.

[Colin]

hopefully i'm stating the obvious, but to me a purely athletic appreciation of sports would have no overlapping homosocial elements with being a spectator or participant therein... along the same lines as gays in the military. if any concentration is given to sexualizing other males in a military or athletic context, it kind of undermines the gay community's ability and aptitute to thrive in those scenarios. i dunno gay.com, your sports writing isn't even interesting enough to worry about the two decades you set the gay community back with the hardon you write so eagerly with.

[pepe]

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[Yaakov Sullivan]

Schwyzer's theory is every country where gay marriage is legalized, their sporting teams do phenomenally well.

I personally dream about a gay president and a gay Pope. Both my husband and my boyfriend think I am crazy...

[thisis_pete]

Come on, this story is stupid (sorry to the writer). There's no statistics to back up your theory. So don't just simply write something just to ceate a story. There's no correlation between a good sportng team and it's country legal marriage status. For crying out loud, be a good writer! gay.com needs to find some good writers.

[thisis_pete]

The only thing I like about the article is the picture, the picture is hot! The story, on the other hand, a flop!