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Sometimes Team A has a whammy/hex against them when they play in a certain stadium.

What are some notable instances of this you recall?

Here are a few examples:

The Lions had two hexes when they traveled to Minnesota: won only once EVER there vs Bud Grant (1974) in 18 tries (1-16-1!), then had a 13 year skid at the Metrodome from 1998-2010

New England lost 18 straight times at the Orange Bowl

New England lost 18 straight times at the Orange Bowl

Streak broken by the 1985 AFC Championship game.

Detroit also lost 24 straight at Green Bay (including Milwaukee) between 1992 and 2014.

The Lions lost 21 straight in Washington between 1939 and 2007, including 3 postseason games.They snapped the streak with a 27-20 win in 2013. Overall the Lions are 1-22 @ Washington. Detroit won both games in Boston before the Skins moved to DC.

The Browns never won in Detroit until 1983 and are 1-12 overall when visiting Motown.

Not that they play very often anymore, but the Packers have not won on the road against the Colts since 1974.

Included was the one tie on Baltimore’s otherwise winless record in 1982 and the infamous loss in 1997 when the defending Super Bowl champs lost to a Colts team helmed by Paul Justin.

The Packers were 2-11 all-time at Texas Stadium, including an 0-9 record with Brett Favre at QB.

Funny enough, the Packers are 6-0 at AT&T Stadium, including Super Bowl XLV.

New England lost 18 straight times at the Orange Bowl

Buffalo also had a hard time there. When they won 38-35 in Miami in OT (week 6 of the 1983 season), it was the first time they won there since 1966, Miami's inaugural season.

Oszuscik wrote: ↑Tue Sep 23, 2025 10:41 am The Packers were 2-11 all-time at Texas Stadium, including an 0-9 record with Brett Favre at QB.

Funny enough, the Packers are 6-0 at AT&T Stadium, including Super Bowl XLV.

Yes, Favre lost 7 games in Texas Stadium over 4 seasons, including their 1996 Super Bowl season, when Green Bay was thought to be the better team for the first time. To be fair, both starting WR's (Robert Brooks and Antonio Freeman) were injured, for that 1996 game and they hadn't yet signed Andre Rison to fill in.

The upstart Panthers ruined Green Bay's chance to get revenge in the playoffs (which would have been played at Lambeau. They had to wait until 1997 for a fading Cowboys team to come to Green Bay.

7DnBrnc53 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 23, 2025 7:46 pm

New England lost 18 straight times at the Orange Bowl

Buffalo also had a hard time there. When they won 38-35 in Miami in OT (week 6 of the 1983 season), it was the first time they won there since 1966, Miami's inaugural season.

The one difference is that NE held their own vs the Dolphins at Foxboro.

From 1970-1986, the Bills won only three times against Miami period. New England up until the calendar year of 1986 at least could win home games here and there vs MIA

Colts haven't won in Jacksonville (or in London) since 2014.