The Curse of the Chihuahua

In 1998, Tony Bennett tried to bring his pet chihuahua, Bridget, with him into Yankees Stadium for Game 4 of the World Series, where he was booked to massacre the National Anthem in the normal way. In a startling manifestation of Nietzsche's doctrine of Eternal Recurrence - or ewige Wiederkunft - ushers at the game said the dog was too smelly and told Bennet that he had to leave. Nevertheless, Bennett went on to sing the Star-Spangled Banner before casting a curse on the Bronx Bombers by warbling to the crowd: "Dose Yankees, dey not gonna win anymore.” Hopelessly derivative, this curse is widely regarded as the weakest of the modern era, as the Yankees won the World Series for the following three years. Pathetic.