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Outside of every KFC in Japan, there is a Colonel Sanders statue. It is said that Hanshin Tigers fans threw one of these statues off of Ebisubashi Bridge in 1985, after their team won the Japan Series. After this happened, the Hanshin Tigers never won the championship again.

Oh, and KFC is the traditional Japanese Christmas dinner.

>> No.876689

how informative

>> No.876696

I don't know about you, but I make offerings to Colonel Sanders every now and then for good luck.

>> No.876698

WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT TO THE COLONEL

YOU BASTARDS

>> No.876699

they won in 2005 and 2003

>> No.876701

Jesus Christ, didn't they know that the Colonel is the motherfucking god of chicken and secret spices?

>> No.876706

also doubles as a battering ram in times of revolution

>> No.876717

>>876699
They haven't won a Japan Series since 1985.

>> No.876741

>>876699
No they did not. They had a great season in 2003 but still lost in the end.

>> No.876749

It would have been more helpful if you explained why they threw the statue off the bridge. The story is pretty funny when you fucking tell it right.

>> No.876750
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>> No.876768

>>876749
Don't tell me how to post threads.

>> No.877670

>>876749
You've got my attention - care to elaborate?

>> No.877722

>>876749
wasn't it something like how a group of japanese baseball fans, being racist fucks that they are, were pissed off that the Tigers won with a foreign member on the team? And then, since a statue of Sanders nearby, and him OBVIOUSLY being the symbol of baka gaijins, they chucked it into a river to quell their hatred?

>> No.877810

lol, Curse of the Colonel.

Randy Bass is a dick. I once talked to him at some event, humongous asshole with an ego to match.

lol i was the greatest baseball player in nippon lollol.

The great ambassador of my city. Faggot.

>> No.878579

>>877722
No.

>> No.878602

>>877722
>chucked

I've always hated thast word. Supeeku ingurishu.

>> No.878613

Ohhh, they're hiring.

850 yen an hour.

>> No.878620
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>> No.878627

>>878620
WHAT THE FUCK

>> No.878634

>>878620
gantsu

>> No.878651

LESS OF THAT STATUE.

I want to read the rest of that sign!

>> No.878667
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878667

ITT: Colonel Sanders. He earned that rank by snapping more than just chicken's necks.

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>>878667

>> No.878677

>>878620
Why is Frieza there?

>> No.878784

>>876684
KENTA-KUUUUU~N

>> No.878787

1985 Japan Series

In 1985, much to Japanese people's surprise, the Hanshin Tigers faced the Seibu Lions and took their first and only victory in the Japan Series, largely due to star slugger Randy Bass, a gaijin (foreigner) player for the team.

The rabid fan base went wild, and a riotous celebration gathered at Ebisubashi Bridge in Dotonbori, Osaka. There, an assemblage of supporters yelled the players names, and with every name a fan resembling a member of the victorious team leapt from the bridge into the waiting canal. However, lacking someone to imitate MVP Randy Bass, the rabid crowd seized the Colonel Sanders (like Bass, the Colonel had a beard and was not Japanese) plastic statue from a nearby KFC and tossed it off the bridge as an effigy.

This impulsive maneuver was to cost the team greatly, beginning the Curse of the Colonel. Urban legend has it that the Tigers will not win the championship again until the statue is recovered.


lol wikipedia

>> No.878830

>>878787

Suddenly the Sanders statue in Higurashi makes a whole lot more sense.

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878845

Do not fuck with fast food mascot statues.

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878853

HOW CAN I HELP YOU TODAY CUSTOMER-SAMA?!

>> No.878884

>>878787
878787.

Legend of the Colonel.

>> No.878889

>>878884
haha oh wow

>> No.878968

>>878787

oh man i lol'd hard:

Name spelling
Though the name Bass would conventionally be transcribed as バス (Basu) in Japanese, Randy Bass is known as バース (Bāsu) (pronounced /baːs(ɯ)/ when read phonetically). The Hanshin Tigers requested the change because the owner of the team, Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd., directly owns a bus operation. Because "bus" is written exactly the same as Bass in Japanese ('basu'), the Tigers worried that Japanese media might create headlines such as "Bus unstoppable" (consecutive hits), "Bus explodes" (home run) or "Bus crash" (if he slumps), which would have a negative impact to the corporate image of Hanshin Electric Railway Bus.

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