The Curse Of the Terrible Towel On the Titans

The Titans had the best record in the NFL last year, gained home field advantage and had just walloped the only team in the AFC that people thought could beat them. Sure enough, it looked like an easy run to the SuperBowl.

So how did the Titans players express their appreciation? They stomped on a symbol of that team they just beat, the Terrible Towel! Suddenly, the curse was on! The next week Titans fans were excited to see Vince Young's improvement after sitting the bench all year. He came out and threw for a paltry 55 yards and struggled against the Colts second team.

They got a bye in the first week of the playoffs, then for most of their playoff game they played better than the Baltimore Ravens, a team with a rookie quarterback, a team they were expected to dominate. However they kept getting strange, almost eerie turnovers. Then as they drove down the field for the game winning touchdown, All-Pro tight end Alge Crumpler mysteriously fumbled the ball inside the 5 yard line! The ride the Super Bowl suddenly ended. The team who's symbol they defaced went on to win the Super Bowl.

Then in the off-season, Smash & Dash, the dominate running back tandem that rushed for nearly 200 yds per game together started a twitter war as they no longer wanted to be linked together, they wanted to have their own nicknames...Dash wanted to be referred to as "Every coaches dream" and Smash said "dreams aren't real". Jeff Fisher got involved and dubbed the duo "Dumb & Dumber". The war ended peacefully thank goodness, but how strange it was to Titans fans that something was messing with their chemistry!

Then the tragic news of Steve McNair's death. A truly spooky encounter where a young innocent girl went crazy and committed murder suicide. Something was definitely wrong, I mean since when do young girls not think rationally? There had to be some unseen power ruining things for the Titans.

Then comes the season. The first game of the year, they played better than the Steelers for 3 quarters, but the Steelers hung in there and played better late in the game until they led in the 4th quarter, suddenly on a Titans drive that was sure to be the game winner, Troy Palomalu lept 3 feet higher than normal (some exaggeration possible) to pick off a pass from Kerry Collins that ruined the Titans chances to win the game. Was the curse of the Terrible Towel lifted now that the Steelers beat the Titans? Apparently, the Towel was more offended than all thought possible.

The Titans went on to lose more games, losing more confidence with each loss until, finally a 59 to nothing drubbing in deep snow at New England in which Titans receivers only caught balls if was on accident, Tom Brady only played one half and then when Vince Young came in the game for Kerry Collins he wanted to see what it felt like to be a winner so he pretended he was Tom Brady's backup and threw perfect passes to New England receivers (I mean defensive backs), one of them was caught and the other one was dropped by the receiver (I mean defensive back). How devastating it was for Titans fans to imagine Vince Young on another team, but it got worse! The next week head coach Jeff Fisher showed up at a function wearing a INDIANAPOLIS COLTS UNIFORM!!!! and then said that "HE just wanted to see what it felt like to be a winner!" Oh NO, the Terrible Towel has struck again!

At this time no one knows how deep the curse is or what will appease the towel. Vince Young gets the start over Kerry Collins even though the receivers and the defense have been the weak links this year not the QB. Even though they seem to be the Titanic fall of the Titans, maybe it's the Terrible Towel! This Halloween Titans fans are hoping the Curse of the Terrible Towel will haunt elsewhere.