It’s Official: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Is Cursed

From the Andretti curse to the "Curse of the Bambino", sports curses have often been used to explain the misfortunes of particular players or teams.  With Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s performance at the most recent race at Phoenix International Raceway, as well as an overall terrible season, there can be no other explanation than that he is just plain cursed. Dale Jr. and the No. 88 AMP team had high hopes coming into this race weekend at Phoenix.  They practiced well and Junior and his team were confident that they could finally pull off a good finish. Unfortunately, the curse of the Dale Jr. struck during one of the restarts.  The front of the field stacked up, causing Junior to jump out of line, hook the apron and lose control of his car. Jun...

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