Double Rainbows Do Not Portend Bruins Victories
Monday night, the sky cleared after a crazy thunderstorm and a double rainbow once again stretched across Boston. This being the second double rainbow to show up in less than a week, people knew what to do: Take photos and ponder the meaning for the Bruins, who would play Chicago in a Stanley Cup game an hour or so later.
Rainbow over Bobby Orr’s statue predicts Bruins Stanley Cup win!! @wzlx @NHLBruins @fox25news @espn @NBCSports pic.twitter.com/qL99tBi8Hv
— Chuck Nowlin (@ChuckNowlinWZLX) June 17, 2013
No big deal just a double rainbow directly over the Garden 20 mins before puck drop #Bruins Pic courtesy @mollymagill pic.twitter.com/iVBBsnY4b9
— BruinsLife.com (@BruinsLife) June 17, 2013
Complete double rainbow over Boston. Mother Nature is a #Bruins fan! pic.twitter.com/W7GmVFdDAh — Chris Wolff (@Chris_Wolff) June 18, 2013
Divine proof #Bruins will score 2nd win tonight! RT @savvybostonian: Double rainbow in the back bay! pic.twitter.com/04drERK6ow#stanleycup — Joe Waters (@joewaters) June 17, 2013
Not that all these people are suggesting serious rainbow-hockey victory causation … But we’re going to be that guy for a moment and pretend they were, so we can point out that the last double rainbow appeared over Boston just hours before last Wednesday’s game. The Bruins lost in triple overtime. This ruled out the possibility that double rainbows necessarily precede Bruins victories but left open the possibility that they do the opposite: portend Bruins losses. Uh oh! Luckily, that latter theory came crashing down last night because the Bruins won. Ergo, no correlation.
Don’t feel bad. Double rainbows are rare things so it’s probably good the Bruins haven’t hitched their fate to them. And this frees us up to test other theories for the rainbow’s portent. Maybe God is going through a Lisa Frank phase. Or it’s nothing more than the fragmentation of light through water droplets and makes for lovely pictures and funny YouTube autotunes. Either way, let’s ponder it as we look at more pretty pictures of rainbows.
@universalhub View over Wollaston Beach. <3 pic.twitter.com/hKMqhstPDA
— Sarah Nelson (@CelestialAxis) June 18, 2013
#Rainbow @BostonTweet @universalhub @pbouchardon7 http://t.co/jEuqtw8AGX
— Jonathan Berk (@berkie1) June 18, 2013
God never forgot about Boston. Double rainbow over entire city @steveannear @BostonTweet @universalhub pic.twitter.com/vJ7wNsXBkN
— Christopher Weigel (@ChrisWeigel) June 18, 2013
Rainbow over the public garden and George Washington. Lets go b’s! @universalhub pic.twitter.com/kcPy7isxDd
— Stephanie Giunta (@sgiunta6) June 18, 2013
Sometimes you just need to Vine the rainbow https://t.co/kia1muoTR2
— Brent Grinna (@brentgrinna) June 18, 2013
