OBJ, a Boat Party and the Bieber Curse: Should NY Giants Fans Be Worried?

I thought we had all agreed to love Justin Bieber. “Where Are U Now” dropped, and we made the joint decision that human beings over the age of 12 were allowed to listen to Bieber songs in public for maybe the first time in recorded history. Legitimate clubs were even playing his music. I’m sure there had been a few places in the past that used “Baby” as a late-night hype track, but I hadn’t been to any of them. They were probably in Eastern Europe.    

But maybe the Bieber-ssance was just a 2016 thing.

Biebs is yet again in the cross hairs of the nation just days into the new year, this time for ruining the Giants’ chances against the Packers in this Sunday’s playoff game, simply by hanging out with Odell Beckham Jr. It’s really quite a feat for a man who weighs slightly less than the average Edible Arrangement.

On Tuesday, USA Today asked “Is there a Justin Bieber curse?” The findings of the article—backed up with plenty of photographic evidence—is more or less “well, maybe?”

To best understand the Bieber effect in sports, one must divide his career in half, with his 2015 Comedy Central Roast as the point of departure. On one side, you had a guy perfectly happy peeing in a mop bucket and abandoning his pet monkey in Germany. On the other side, you have that dude who dropped “Sorry,” perhaps the most blatant musical mea culpa since Eminem’s “Cleanin’ Out My Closet.”

The moments USA Today cited in its investigation, though, all seem to have occurred before the dividing roast. Bieber took a photo of the Stanley Cup, and the Blackhawks didn’t repeat in 2014. Bieber showed up at a 2014 Steelers Bible study, and they lost to the Jets. Our guy posed with a Spain soccer jersey, and the reigning World Cup champions didn’t even make it out of the group stage of the tournament in, you guessed it, 2014.

#Bieber supports #Spain… #WorldCup http://t.co/idv9OBHneT pic.twitter.com/cSS1bSGdjh

— Patrend (@PatrendOfficial) July 8, 2014

It seems grossly unfair for us to cast aspersions on Biebs for much of what he did in that …

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