49ers Deommodore Lenoir Is So Superstitious He’s Been Letting His Smoke Detector Chirp At Him For A Year

There are a lot of superstitious athletes out there, but I'm not sure I've ever seen one go to such great lengths to maintain his superstition quite like San Francisco 49ers cornerback Deommodre Lenoir has.

The man claims to have not changed the batteries in his almost constantly chirping smoke detector in a year.

That's absurd, but there's video evidence of it because it was chirping during his entire interview during Tuesday's episode of Up & Adams.

"I want to know," host Kay Adams said. "Whose job was it to change the batteries in the smoke detector."

Lenoir said it wasn't anybody's job.

"My smoke detectors still go off right now," he said just as the smoke detector again.

Adams — like the rest of was — dumbfounded that Lenoir could sleep through that, but it turns out, he hasn't made it through just one night with it.

"It's been going on since last (year)," he said. "It's been good luck, so I just let it go. I've been playing good the whole season, and I'm kind of superstitious."

I mean, the second it didn't win me a Super Bowl, I'd pick up a pack of 9-volts, but that may just be me…

Anyway, that smoke detector chirping is the most annoying sound in the world. I have a neighbor who has managed to ignore it for weeks and I can hear it when I'm outside walking the dog. I have no clue how people can stand it.

I've had it start doing it at like 2 in the morning, and it sent me on a quest to Wawa to track down batteries (which they don't sell for some reason; at least not the one I went to).

But hey, if it helps Lenoir sleep at night (that's impossible though; no way it helps) keep it going.

Still, that doesn't change how crazy it is that he hasn't swapped out a couple of Duracells in a year, and Adams agrees.

"This is the craziest thing I've ever heard," she said. "I literally want to scratch my skin off because I'm hearing this noise and you don't even hear it."

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Matt is a University of Central Florida graduate and a long-suffering Philadelphia Flyers fan living in Orlando, Florida. He can usually be heard playing guitar, shoe-horning obscure quotes from The Simpsons into conversations, or giving dissertations to captive audiences on why Iron Maiden is the greatest band of all time.