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Title: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '19 Washington Nationals)
Post by: ice grillin you on January 28, 2006, 11:58:55 AM
Seasons: City (Last Champion) [leagues]
114: San Diego [MLB]
108: Buffalo ('65 Bills (AFL)) [NHL, NFL]
101: Minneapolis ('91 Twins) [ALL]
98: Milwaukee ('71 Bucks) [NBA, MLB]
83: Atlanta ('95 Braves) [NBA, MLB, NFL]
71: Phoenix ('01 Diamondbacks) [ALL]
60: New York ('12 Giants) [ALL]
58: Cincinnati ('90 Reds) [MLB, NFL]
55: Charlotte [NBA, NFL]
47: Detroit ('08 Red Wings) [ALL]
46: Portland ('77 Trail Blazers) [NBA]
45: Salt Lake City [NBA]
42: Nashville [NHL, NFL]
42: Tampa ('04 Lightning) [NHL, MLB, NFL]
38: Sacramento [NBA]
33: Dallas ('11 Mavericks) [ALL]
29: Orlando [NBA]
29: Los Angeles ('14 Kings) [ALL]
28: New Jersey ('03 Devils) [NHL]
27: San Jose [NHL]
26: Jacksonville [NFL]
26: Miami ('13 Heat) [ALL]
23: Indianapolis ('07 Colts) [NBA, NFL]
22: Memphis [NBA] (includes 1 season as home to the Tennessee Oilers)
21: New Orleans ('10 Saints) [NBA, NFL]
18: Columbus [NHL]
16: Denver ('16 Broncos) [ALL]
15: Chicago ('16 Cubs) [ALL]
12: Baltimore ('13 Ravens) [MLB, NFL]
12: Seattle ('14 Seahawks) [MLB, NFL]
10: San Francisco ('14 Giants) [MLB, NFL]
10: Cleveland ('16 Cavaliers) [NBA, MLB, NFL]
9: Kansas City ('15 Royals) [MLB, NFL]
8: Green Bay ('10 Packers) [NFL]
7: Pittsburgh ('17 Pens) [NHL, MLB, NFL]
7: Philadelphia ('18 Eagles) [ALL]
6: Houston ('17 Astros) [NBA, MLB, NFL]
5: San Antonio ('14 Spurs) [NBA]
4: Oakland ('18 Warriors) [NBA, MLB, NFL]
3: Boston (19' Patriots) [ALL]
1: St Louis ('19 Blues) [NHL, MLB,]
0: Washington ('19 Nationals) [ALL]
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: MDS on January 28, 2006, 12:03:12 PM
Were #2! Were #2!
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Geowhizzer on January 28, 2006, 12:16:33 PM
We can't even win this title...  :boom
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Rome on January 28, 2006, 12:32:46 PM
If they're counting something like the AFL in this (Chargers), then Philly has won a championship since 1983.

The Philadelphia Stars won in 1984.

Holla.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Diomedes on January 28, 2006, 02:18:12 PM
I take it that the cities listed without years have never won a championship of any kind?  And the reason they aren't rated closer to the top is because their teams aren't very old?
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on January 28, 2006, 05:23:27 PM
You are correct, Dio.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: rjs246 on January 29, 2006, 06:47:33 PM
The Wings rule(d).
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: phillymic2000 on January 29, 2006, 11:04:28 PM
Wait a second, how is seattle ahead of us ???
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: phillymic2000 on January 29, 2006, 11:05:28 PM
Quote from: phillymic2000 on January 29, 2006, 11:04:28 PM
Wait a second, how is seattle ahead of us ???

Oh wait a second, now I get it.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: GoRahGeorge on April 12, 2006, 04:19:56 PM
I couldn't agree more, Jerome9.

They may not have lasted but two years in Philly, but the Stars were exicting to watch.

You can even find some Philadelphia Stars USFL goodies at throwbackmax.com, Robert and Carie Shugert do some pretty good stuff with old sports leagues of years gone by.

Even the World Football League, with the Philadelphia Bell.

Just thought you'd like to know.

Erin Go Rah!

Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Wingspan on April 12, 2006, 04:34:37 PM
my new basement is starting to collect memorabilia from defunct franchises...i have pennants from The Philadelphia Bell
Philadelphia Stars
Philadelphia Atoms
Philadelphia Athletics
Philadelphia Fury

the firebirds are next on the list
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: SunMo on April 12, 2006, 04:35:17 PM
don't forget the Phillies and Sixers
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: ice grillin you on February 05, 2007, 03:56:30 PM
still waiting....
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on February 05, 2007, 04:02:00 PM
Whatever happened to GoRahGeorge?!?
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Rome on February 05, 2007, 04:03:02 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on February 05, 2007, 03:56:30 PM
still waiting....

Not for much longer, IGY...

(http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/7779/1000555lh9.jpg)

Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: SunMo on February 05, 2007, 04:03:07 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on February 05, 2007, 03:56:30 PM
still waiting....

(http://images.dietclub.com.au/branding/dc/library/snickers.jpg)
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: The BIGSTUD on February 05, 2007, 05:44:50 PM
The Phantoms won the Calder Cup, this is bogus.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Sgt PSN on February 05, 2007, 06:10:47 PM
And the Wings won like eleventy titles in the last 15 years. 

OMGGARYGAIT!!  :crazy :crazy :crazy
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Geowhizzer on February 05, 2007, 07:03:28 PM
Quote from: Sassy Pants on February 05, 2007, 06:10:47 PM
And the Wings won like eleventy titles in the last 15 years. 

OMGGARYGAIT!!  :crazy :crazy :crazy

Do they still play? 
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Wingspan on February 05, 2007, 07:28:40 PM
Philadelphia can't even win wingbowl anymore. And it was created here because the city if full of deadbeat fatasses.  :-D
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Sgt PSN on February 06, 2007, 12:54:29 AM
Quote from: Geowhizzer on February 05, 2007, 07:03:28 PM
Quote from: Sassy Pants on February 05, 2007, 06:10:47 PM
And the Wings won like eleventy titles in the last 15 years. 

OMGGARYGAIT!!  :crazy :crazy :crazy

Do they still play? 

It would appear they do. (http://www.wingslax.com/)
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Geowhizzer on February 06, 2007, 06:05:26 AM
Hmmm... their games are on Versus.  So, apparently they're about co-equal with the NHL.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Rome on February 06, 2007, 08:32:21 AM
Quote from: Sassy Pants on February 06, 2007, 12:54:29 AM
It would appear they do. (http://www.wingslax.com/)


(http://www.wingslax.com/mediaContent/2006/03/03/22/rings2_61107.jpg)

:bow
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Geowhizzer on February 06, 2007, 09:09:25 AM
That's some fine cubic zirconia.  :yay
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Rome on February 06, 2007, 09:22:03 AM
I was at the game in 1989.  The Spectrum was rocking like a motherfarger that night.

BTW: The "World Champions" inscriptions on the rings made me chuckle a little.   :-D
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: ice grillin you on February 06, 2007, 09:25:13 AM
what are the wings....indoor soccer?
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: SunMo on February 06, 2007, 09:25:44 AM
lax
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on February 06, 2007, 09:47:01 AM
If IGY didn't know the Wings were a lacrosse team, do you really think he'd know the hip abbreviation for it?
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Sgt PSN on February 06, 2007, 10:53:16 AM
Quote from: Geowhizzer on February 06, 2007, 06:05:26 AM
Hmmm... their games are on Versus.  So, apparently they're about co-equal with the NHL.

I'd actually rate them higher than the NHL.  More action, tons of scoring and some of those guys make some pretty sick shots.  I was way too much of a puss to play lax in school but it's hella fun to watch. 

Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Rome on February 06, 2007, 01:45:27 PM
Quote from: Sassy Pants on February 06, 2007, 10:53:16 AM
Quote from: Geowhizzer on February 06, 2007, 06:05:26 AM
Hmmm... their games are on Versus.  So, apparently they're about co-equal with the NHL.

I'd actually rate them higher than the NHL.  More action, tons of scoring and some of those guys make some pretty sick shots.  I was way too much of a puss to play lax in school but it's hella fun to watch. 

Agreed on all counts, most especially the last one.

Nancy.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: ice grillin you on February 06, 2007, 02:10:20 PM
If IGY didn't know the Wings were a lacrosse team

i was pretty sure they were lax....but then someone said something about 1989 and i didnt think indoor lacrosse was around then


i can believe theres more than one person on this board that thinks indoor lacorsse is better than the nhl

seashell necklaces unite!
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Diomedes on February 06, 2007, 02:20:17 PM
seashell necklaces aside--all the dumb jocks have some kind of stupid bling--I'd rather watch lacrosse than hockey any day
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: ice grillin you on February 06, 2007, 02:23:19 PM
youd also rather run errands than watch the eagles so color me NOT surprised
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Diomedes on February 06, 2007, 02:25:10 PM
yeah, that's totally what I said
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: MDS on February 06, 2007, 04:14:58 PM
igy celebrated in 1992 with the dtc when rypien and gibbs beat the bills. i dont know what hes been waiting so long for.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: ice grillin you on February 06, 2007, 04:52:05 PM
dtc didnt start up until 96...nice try
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on February 06, 2007, 05:29:21 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on February 06, 2007, 04:52:05 PM
dtc didnt start up until 96...nice try

That's the year they turned 14.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: MDS on February 06, 2007, 05:54:47 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on February 06, 2007, 04:52:05 PM
dtc didnt start up until 96...nice try

put on that white hood, son. you is one of them.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Rome on February 06, 2007, 07:07:37 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on February 06, 2007, 02:10:20 PM
If IGY didn't know the Wings were a lacrosse team

i was pretty sure they were lax....but then someone said something about 1989 and i didnt think indoor lacrosse was around then


i can believe theres more than one person on this board that thinks indoor lacorsse is better than the nhl

seashell necklaces unite!

Indoor lacrosse is much more exciting than ice hockey to watch.  There's more action, more physical play (especially now) and more scoring, plus the NLL isn't beset with a collection of overpaid, overhyped Hoydas like the NHL is these days.

I'm not shteinting on hockey entirely because the sport is a rough, rugged and beautiful game when it's played properly.

It hasn't been since the strike, though, and I put the blame entirely on the chicken neck of Gary Bettman.  He's killed the league with his hairbrained schemes, his idiotic television contracts, and his insistence that the violence and aggression that made the game great be weaned out.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: MDS on February 06, 2007, 07:16:14 PM
hitting and physicality of the sport = great
fighting= moronic
bettman = worst commish in the history of pro sports

the nhl was at one time a major sport. now its dead. what the hell is versus? come on.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: phattymatty on February 06, 2007, 07:29:02 PM
you're all farging crazy. 
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Rome on February 06, 2007, 07:40:32 PM
You're only saying that because it's true.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: ice grillin you on February 07, 2007, 06:32:41 AM
you're all farging crazy gay. 

romey i just realized likes lacrosse cause they arent "overpaid hoydas"...his obsession with rich athletes is something to behold...but at leats thats his excuse...i have no idea what everyone elses are
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Rome on February 07, 2007, 07:36:50 AM
Your obsession with me is quite flattering.  A little spooky, but still, flattering.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Diomedes on February 07, 2007, 07:37:01 AM
why do I like lacrosse better than hockey?

a. you can tell what's going on in lacrosse..not so with hockey.  only way you know a goal was scored is the light on the goal..can't actually see the puck going in 75% of the time
b. the fighting in hockey is a major deterrent.  you don't see boxers break out into a tap dancing competition in the middle of a match...moreover, it occurs at least half the time because someone is angry, making it the only sport I can think of where it's okay to attack someone just because you are angry or frustrated..in boxing or UFC etc., fighting it the point..it's not occuring out of anger...encouraging athletes to fight because they're angry is stoopid.
c. the fans make NFL fans look like Jehovah witnesses politely rooting each other on to hand out more pamphlets...brutish lot of animals for the most part
d. professional lacrosse is affordable, hockey is not
e. those gorgeous, gleaming, fresh young white boys with the seashell necklaces are dreamy
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: ice grillin you on February 07, 2007, 08:13:57 AM
i can understand not undersatnding hockey....its not the easiest sport to get into with its many nuances.....whereas lacrosse is for rich acne scarred simpleton steroid abusers...it cant require intelligence to follow or else it would lose all its fans


there is no more fighting in hockey.....there might be five fights a week in the league now


the cost to go to the game is valid...but that isnt a reason to like lacorsse more its a reason to go to a game...but really not even that...theres a reason it costs so little...beacuse it SUCKS and if it cost anymore noone would go
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Diomedes on February 07, 2007, 08:23:37 AM
everything I said is valid...suck it, racist.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: ice grillin you on February 07, 2007, 08:31:27 AM
im a hip-hop loving civil rights supporting racist hockey fan
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Rome on February 07, 2007, 08:40:10 AM
Have you ever been to an indoor lacrosse match?  Have you ever seen one on television?  Or are you simply posting out of your ass as usual, IGY?

Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: ice grillin you on February 07, 2007, 08:58:32 AM
i have been to lacrosse outdoor games...i have watched parts of indoor games...i personally know numerous lacrosse players...i have bar brawled many times with lacrosse players...the sport sucks and the culture behind it is even worse

but enjoy your indoor games because the players arent overpaid...btw what is the going rate for indoor lacrosse palyers and how much do they have to make before they are "overpaid hoydas"


Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Diomedes on February 07, 2007, 09:00:56 AM
The "culture" behind any sport sucks.  Jocks suck.  They're stupid, bullying, pampered, jerks.  To claim lax has a worse "culture" behind it than hockey is ridiculous.

Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Geowhizzer on February 07, 2007, 09:06:44 AM
All kidding aside, indoor lacrosse (how long has it been since they've called it box lacrosse) is a blast to watch.  It's just nearly impossible to find.

But, of course, I love hockey, too.  It just seems that Bettman and his evil henchmen have taken the soul out of the game.  And I don't necessarily mean the fighting.   The physicality of the game just isn't what it used to be.  You bump into someone, you go off for two minutes, nearly every damn time. 

It's almost like they took the NFL and made them play flag football.  It just isn't quite the same.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: ice grillin you on February 07, 2007, 09:07:12 AM
The "culture" behind any sport sucks.  Jocks suck.  They're stupid, bullying, pampered, jerks.  To claim lax has a worse "culture" behind it than hockey is ridiculous.


american youth hockey has similarities to lacrosse in that it is a very privledged group...but youth hockey in amercia in not even a close reprsentation of hockey as a whole...

of course all sports have individual players like this but none comes close to containing the almost secret society feel that encompasses lacrosse...
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Sgt PSN on February 07, 2007, 11:11:35 AM
I like lamp. 
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: SunMo on February 07, 2007, 11:13:07 AM
it's "love"
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Sgt PSN on February 07, 2007, 11:14:24 AM
I don't like to throw that term around. 
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: SunMo on February 07, 2007, 11:17:34 AM
i don't care, boy.  if you're going to do a movie line, you do it mother farging right.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Rome on February 07, 2007, 11:19:13 AM
Quote from: ice grillin you on February 07, 2007, 08:58:32 AM
i have been to lacrosse outdoor games...i have watched parts of indoor games...i personally know numerous lacrosse players...i have bar brawled many times with lacrosse players...the sport sucks and the culture behind it is even worse

but enjoy your indoor games because the players arent overpaid...btw what is the going rate for indoor lacrosse palyers and how much do they have to make before they are "overpaid hoydas"

So you're saying you know almost nothing about the sport of indoor lacrosse or the NLL?

That's just about what I figured. 

What I can't figure out is why you have an opinion about a sport you know almost nothing about.   You do that a lot, IGY.  You realize that, right??

Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Sgt PSN on February 07, 2007, 11:22:15 AM
I like lamp. 

I love annoying SunMo. 
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: SunMo on February 07, 2007, 11:23:28 AM
Quote from: Sassy Pants on February 07, 2007, 11:22:15 AM
I love annoying SunMo. 

that's redundant
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Father Demon on February 08, 2007, 09:52:33 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on February 07, 2007, 08:58:32 AM
i have been to lacrosse outdoor games...i have watched parts of indoor games...i personally know numerous lacrosse players...i have bar brawled many times with lacrosse players...the sport sucks and the culture behind it is even worse

but enjoy your indoor games because the players arent overpaid...btw what is the going rate for indoor lacrosse palyers and how much do they have to make before they are "overpaid hoydas"




Seriously, how does a fat white boy bar brawl?
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: ice grillin you on February 08, 2007, 10:19:24 PM
i keep the burner on my hip yo.....blastin those seashell necklaces like they cans on a fence post
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on February 09, 2007, 06:57:01 AM
Wings games are great.  Its like hockey without skates, and with music like Adema/Tool playing in the background  :yay
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: rjs246 on February 18, 2007, 02:31:58 PM
Lacrosse is the greatest sport ever played. It combines the hand-eye coordination of baseball, the physical nature of hockey, the athleticism of soccer and the 10-man team coordination of football. It's high-scoring and fast-paced. It has everything that people look for in sports, minus the lard-assed, tobacco-chewing lumps of shtein posing as athletes that baseball has.

There are inner-city leagues popping up all over the easy coast, so clearly the 'culture' of the sport is changing to be more inclusive. And the fact is that only ignorant, fatass baseball fans with an irrational hatred of anything different would dislike it.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on February 18, 2007, 07:28:11 PM
Once the black people start playing lacrosse, they will dominate it.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Feva on February 18, 2007, 09:07:27 PM
^^^^

Listen to this man.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Diomedes on February 18, 2007, 09:15:24 PM
the black people need to dominate something more useful than lax.

like finance or real estate or reading
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Feva on February 18, 2007, 10:40:00 PM
True dat, Farrakhan.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Sgt PSN on February 18, 2007, 10:48:48 PM
Quote from: Diomedes on February 18, 2007, 09:15:24 PM
the black people need to dominate something more useful than lax.

like finance or real estate or reading

:-D :paranoid
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: MDS on February 18, 2007, 11:30:02 PM
meh
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: phattymatty on February 19, 2007, 09:16:29 AM
dumbest argument ever.  blast lacrosse and hockey both off the map and 99% of the country wouldn't even know.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on February 19, 2007, 09:22:44 AM
rjs would spontaneously combust, though.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: rjs246 on February 19, 2007, 09:55:10 AM
There's no arguing with that, phatty. But to say that EITHER sport isn't a good sport is idiotic.

IGY hates rich white kids. Fine. I've got no love for rich people myself. But the sport of lacrosse itself is one of, if not the greatest sport ever.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on February 19, 2007, 10:23:42 AM
I prefer teh tiddleywinks.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: ice grillin you on February 20, 2007, 12:27:55 PM
john ameche likes lacrosse

I have nothing to contribute
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: rjs246 on February 20, 2007, 12:28:53 PM
Oh I get it! He's gay! Man do I have egg on my face/seashell necklace.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: ice grillin you on March 30, 2007, 10:46:36 AM
http://community.comcast.net/comcastportal/board?board.id=TheRussakoffRules
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: Beermonkey on March 30, 2007, 11:13:55 AM
Quote from: ice grillin you on February 07, 2007, 09:07:12 AM
of course all sports have individual players like this but none comes close to containing the almost secret society feel that encompasses lacrosse...

The sport of rowing read your post & is perturbed over your apparent ignorance of their culture.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on March 30, 2007, 01:02:04 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on March 30, 2007, 10:46:36 AM
http://community.comcast.net/comcastportal/board?board.id=TheRussakoffRules

That hurt to read.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: BigEd76 on May 19, 2007, 06:24:40 PM
Buffalo....done

Cleveland is still alive though
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: ice grillin you on May 24, 2007, 12:41:35 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on6uWhT7yH8&NR=1
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: SunMo on May 24, 2007, 12:45:32 PM
i hope that was AIDS he was pouring on that cereal
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on May 24, 2007, 12:50:01 PM
Quote from: SunMo on May 24, 2007, 12:45:32 PM
i hope that was AIDS he was pouring on that cereal

No.  It wouldn't kill him fast enough.

Basically, he made a YouTube video to show he owned Philly sports stuff and poured Yuengling on his cereal.


It's times like this I hate YouTube.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: ice grillin you on May 24, 2007, 12:51:08 PM
i thought it was hilarious in a unbelievably reatrded way
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: SunMo on May 24, 2007, 12:52:16 PM
obviously, you thought wrong
Title: Re: sports suffering cities
Post by: ice grillin you on June 01, 2007, 04:02:05 PM
the players that will lead philly to its next championship will be revealed over the next three weeks

mark your calenders

june 7 - 2pm - espn2 - mlb draft
june 22 - 7:30pm - versus - nhl draft
june 28 - 7pm - espn - nba draft

Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2007 world series)
Post by: ice grillin you on November 15, 2007, 09:04:59 AM
2007 red sox update
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2007 world series)
Post by: Sgt PSN on November 17, 2007, 11:44:57 AM
With the Pats' sucess over the last 6 years and the Sawx winning 2 WS in the last 3 plus the fact that the Celtics are a completely rejuvenated franchise, I think it's safe to say that Boston is anything but a sports suffering city.  They're the exact opposite actually. 
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2007 world series)
Post by: ice grillin you on November 26, 2007, 10:47:39 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGpeJwY4AqY
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2007 world series)
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on November 26, 2007, 12:07:04 PM
http://www.youtube.com/v/DW6n5rD0DTg

Some good shtein in there...Tailgating.."If you arent wearing this jersey, i'm gonna farg you up"
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2007 world series)
Post by: ice grillin you on November 26, 2007, 12:44:53 PM
are you a philadelphia eagles sports fan?
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2007 world series)
Post by: SunMo on November 26, 2007, 12:52:47 PM
Quote from: Seabiscuit36 on November 26, 2007, 12:07:04 PM
http://www.youtube.com/v/DW6n5rD0DTg

Some good shtein in there...Tailgating.."If you arent wearing this jersey, i'm gonna farg you up"

embarrassing
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2007 world series)
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on November 26, 2007, 01:01:05 PM
Quote from: SunMo on November 26, 2007, 12:52:47 PM
Quote from: Seabiscuit36 on November 26, 2007, 12:07:04 PM
http://www.youtube.com/v/DW6n5rD0DTg

Some good shtein in there...Tailgating.."If you arent wearing this jersey, i'm gonna farg you up"

embarrassing

A lot is douchey, but i thought some of the shtein was funny about what time to start tailgating(not the random parking lot)
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2007 world series)
Post by: SunMo on November 26, 2007, 01:04:56 PM
no
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2007 world series)
Post by: ice grillin you on January 02, 2008, 02:57:10 PM
http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/customcounter.html?month=5&day=31&year=1983&hour=22&min=34&sec=00&p0=0
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2007 world series)
Post by: ice grillin you on January 29, 2008, 12:08:04 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etno6GHgWhM&NR=1
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2007 world series)
Post by: Rome on January 29, 2008, 12:19:44 PM
More like the curse of inept management, subpar talent and tight-fisted ownership.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on February 03, 2008, 10:35:46 PM
new.....

Quote from: ice grillin you on January 28, 2006, 11:58:55 AM
Seasons: City (Last Champion) [leagues]
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Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: SunMo on February 03, 2008, 10:45:09 PM
i am about ready to give up...basket collecting doesn't let you down like this
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: Geowhizzer on February 03, 2008, 10:49:08 PM
I've already convinced myself that I won't live to see another championship.  If I live to be 100, the Eagles won't win until 2071.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: BigEd76 on February 03, 2008, 11:01:30 PM
Your LA one is wrong, even if you're counting Anaheim
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: MDS on February 03, 2008, 11:22:16 PM
Since a Philly team last won a title, their rivals have won 20 titles across the 4 major sports.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on February 04, 2008, 08:25:34 AM
Quote from: SunMo on February 03, 2008, 10:45:09 PM
i am about ready to give up...basket collecting doesn't let you down like this

Good point, but stay away from basketweaving.  That's a pile of disappointment, just waiting to happen.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on February 08, 2008, 09:43:25 AM
i really didnt know where to put this...this thread seemed like as good a place as any since if theres a god this will be the reason he never lets the city win a title again

simply put one of the worst things ive ever seen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNmvk08kcVE


Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on February 08, 2008, 10:22:14 AM
its times like that when i root for al queda
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: reese125 on February 08, 2008, 10:24:20 AM
Only Eagle fans (or Philadelphian's) can take the Rocky theme song and turn it into the 40/40 club
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: MDS on February 08, 2008, 01:21:35 PM
That one black guy was seriously out of place.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: SD_Eagle5 on February 08, 2008, 01:24:34 PM
Not really, he had no rythym, just like the rest of the honkeys
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: Rome on February 08, 2008, 02:40:10 PM
Someone made a comment from here.  I replied in kind. 
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on April 04, 2008, 03:46:04 PM
how great is tonight

sixers to clinch a playoff spot
flyers in a virtual playoff game
phillies

last channel button in full effect


btw 57 days until the 25th anniversary
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 19, 2008, 01:51:53 PM
losers

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/more/05/14/philadelphia.drought/index.html?eref=T1
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on May 19, 2008, 02:00:09 PM
It's weird that Shawn Bradley is the single biggest Mormon bust in Philly history.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 19, 2008, 02:08:02 PM
i was just thinking that the writer is wrong anyway...its 25 years but not 100 seasons since a couple leagues didnt finish their seasons during the drought
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: phattymatty on May 19, 2008, 02:13:03 PM
Quote97. Flyers ship Rod Brind'Amour to Carolina | Jan. 23, 2000

The return -- Keith Primeau -- wasn't so bad. But many fans felt betrayed by management's decision to trade away Brind'Amour, the beloved team captain and one of the most popular players in franchise history.

I was at the Flyers game the night Brind'Amour was traded (in Pittsburgh).  So I didn't get to see him or Primeau.  Great timing.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: SunMo on May 19, 2008, 02:13:19 PM
i'm pretty sure no one was winning anything those years anyway
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: phattymatty on May 19, 2008, 02:16:24 PM
Quote1     19     PHI     Lester Holmes     G     8     1993     2000     0     0     6     102                                                 Jackson State
1    24    PHI    Leonard Renfro    DT    2    1993    1994    0    0    0    23                                     Colorado
2    50    PHI    Victor Bailey    WR    3    1993    1996    0    0    1    34                            62    868    2    Missouri
3    75    PHI    Derrick Frazier    DB    3    1994    1996    0    0    0    25                                     Texas A&M
3    77    PHI    Mike Reid    DB    2    1993    1994    0    0    0    12                                     North Carolina State

wow, does it get any worse than that?  5 of the first 77 picks and absolutely nothing.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 19, 2008, 02:16:48 PM
to this day i have never really understood the brindamour obsession
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: MDS on May 19, 2008, 03:31:26 PM
his nose was jewnormous
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on May 19, 2008, 03:34:05 PM
It still is.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: Geowhizzer on May 19, 2008, 06:39:01 PM
Quote from: phattymatty on May 19, 2008, 02:13:03 PM
Quote97. Flyers ship Rod Brind'Amour to Carolina | Jan. 23, 2000

The return -- Keith Primeau -- wasn't so bad. But many fans felt betrayed by management's decision to trade away Brind'Amour, the beloved team captain and one of the most popular players in franchise history.

I was at the Flyers game the night Brind'Amour was traded (in Pittsburgh).  So I didn't get to see him or Primeau.  Great timing.

Brind'Amour was never the captain.  He was an alternate, but never the captain.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: QB Eagles on May 19, 2008, 07:00:12 PM
They couldn't be more right about #1.

I still feel like vomiting every time I think about that motherfarging game. The path to a championship has never been easier since '83 than that one. It was the worst thing I have ever witnessed as a sports fan.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: QB Eagles on May 19, 2008, 07:20:54 PM
That list is like a journey through hell. J.D. Drew, Reggie Miller, Claude Lemieux, Shawn Bradley, Ronde Barber... these are some of Satan's right-hand men.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: MadMarchHare on May 19, 2008, 07:47:04 PM
That article makes me want to murder every single person in a 10 mile radius.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: Phanatic on May 19, 2008, 09:01:57 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on May 19, 2008, 02:16:48 PM
to this day i have never really understood the brindamour obsession

He was a decent hard working player. What's not to like?

Primeau was a guy that never lived up to his billing but was a nice player too. Primeau never put up the numbers Brindamour did at the NHL level though.

Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: MDS on May 19, 2008, 09:43:43 PM
pimreau basically brought them to within 1 game of the cup in 04 or 05 whatever year it was.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 20, 2008, 08:18:56 AM
Quote from: Phanatic on May 19, 2008, 09:01:57 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on May 19, 2008, 02:16:48 PM
to this day i have never really understood the brindamour obsession

He was a decent hard working player. What's not to like?


i never said i disliked him i said i dont get why hes an all time beloved flyer


Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: rjs246 on May 20, 2008, 08:28:53 AM
He was hard-nosed. He was a leader. He put up points. He was overshadowed for much of his career by bigger talents but was always steady on the ice. I have absolutely no confusion about why he is so well loved. That trade wasn't awful, but Brindamour leaving Philly sucked.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 20, 2008, 08:37:59 AM
theres 20 other flyer players i could say that about who also achieved more than brindamour but arent nearly as loved...he was a fine player but theres no real reason he should be in the pantheon of all time flyers

if i had to guess why the infatuation is there it would have more to do with people not liking eric lindros than anything rod brindamour ever did
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: rjs246 on May 20, 2008, 08:50:10 AM
He had 600+ points in 633 games as a Flyer. He excelled on the powerplay and the penalty kill. Hell, he did everything then that Mike Richards does now. Yes, he was also the anti-Lindros, but to say that there have been 20+ Flyers to play as well as he did for the team is wrong.

Plus at this point over his career he has over 1100 points and a cup. easy to understand why people dig the dude.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 20, 2008, 09:09:58 AM
who cares what he did on carolina....the guy was a nice player but hardly some legend
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: rjs246 on May 20, 2008, 09:11:26 AM
Way to ignore the first 3/4 of my post.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 20, 2008, 09:17:25 AM
all of that is meaningless when it comes to explaining why he was beloved....no one looked at him as a scorer then or now so his pt totals are irrelevant...he didnt fight or was overly tough....he didnt score one memorable goal was never on a memorable team never had a memorable post season series....

he was a solid two way forward who was the anti eric lindros....thats all i can come up with...if that makes you a flyer legend then count me as very perplexed....if you worship him more power to you i just dont get it
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on May 20, 2008, 09:44:07 AM
Lindros banged his wifey.. FTW
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: Phanatic on May 20, 2008, 09:55:52 AM
He scored 97 points one season and was able to put up quite a few 80 + point seasons with the Flyers as a 2nd line center. There aren't 20 + players that can say that and the ones that can get treated the same in my book. I also have simular feelings for Hextal because I loved the intensity he played with even if he was his own worst enemy.

Also Primeau was part of the team that came close to the cup but was not the sole reason they were there by any stretch. He was a solid leader and a nice player.

Brindamour is in the top 10 of all time Flyers scorers...

1 Bobby Clarke 1210
2 Bill Barber 883
3 Brian Propp 849
4 Rick MacLeish 697
5 Eric Lindros 659
6 Tim Kerr 650
7 John LeClair 643
8 Mark Recchi 627
9 Rod Brind'Amour 601
10 Gary Dornhoefer 518

It sucked to see him go and it sucked watching him continue to have 80 + point seasons for another team and win a cup elsewhere. As with all Philly sports.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: Rome on May 20, 2008, 10:11:38 AM
People loved Rod because he was a hard hat/lunch pail type player.  He wasn't a Lindros-type talent but he was very productive and fit the Philly ideal for professional athletes to a tee.

Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 20, 2008, 10:16:50 AM
its not the lunch pail thing the flyers have had a 100 players like that...rick tocchet was ten thousand times the lunch pail guy brindamour was...hell tim kerr was more lunch pail than brindamour...


its all about the lindros thing
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: rjs246 on May 20, 2008, 10:18:20 AM
You clearly have no idea what it is "all about" since you don't even understand why people like him so much.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 20, 2008, 10:20:16 AM
im talking myself thru it and coming up with the only logical explanation


longevity + not named eric lindros = flyer legend
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: rjs246 on May 20, 2008, 10:24:16 AM
Quote from: ice grillin you on May 20, 2008, 10:20:16 AM
longevity + productivity + leadership + two-way do-everything hard-nosed style + no bullshtein personality baggage + not named eric lindros = flyer legend
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: Sgt PSN on May 20, 2008, 10:24:47 AM
I don't like hockey and even I liked Rod Brindamour.  
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 20, 2008, 10:32:31 AM
Quote from: Sgt PSN on May 20, 2008, 10:24:47 AM
I don't like hockey and even I liked Rod Brindamour.  


this perfectly illustrates my point....count me back in the i dont get it column


also dook played more games in the league off the flyers than he did on the flyers...when all is said and done he probably will be remembered as a hurricane....that to me does not = flyer legend

but whatever....things that make you go hmmm i suppose
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: Rome on May 20, 2008, 10:36:20 AM
good god shut up.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 20, 2008, 10:40:27 AM
Quote from: Rome on May 20, 2008, 10:36:20 AM
good god shut up.


i dont mean to tarnish your hero i really dont....and if he makes the flyer hall of fame ill be happy for him...im merely saying that i dont understand it
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: Rome on May 20, 2008, 10:44:00 AM
he's not my hero.  i liked him as a player but my heroes were from the 1970's, not the 1990's, dookie.

you continue suggesting you "don't get it" is silly though.  how can you not get philly fans loving a guy who busted his ass, never complained, and was very productive?  seems to me you're just continuing on with this to amuse yourself.  that's fine, though.  just not interested in playing along today.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 20, 2008, 11:20:20 AM
80's flyers > 70's + 90's X 00 flyers
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on May 20, 2008, 11:24:10 AM
Me three!
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: Phanatic on May 20, 2008, 11:43:21 AM
Quote from: ice grillin you on May 20, 2008, 11:20:20 AM
80's flyers > 70's + 90's X 00 flyers

Rod isn't better then the 8 guys above him the scoring list. That's certainly true.


I wasn't coherant enough as a 70's kid to remember the 70's Flyers any more then some excitment for winning a championship around the neighborhood. The 80's Flyers are what really got me hooked though. farging Oilers...

Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 20, 2008, 12:07:29 PM
Quote from: Phanatic on May 20, 2008, 11:43:21 AM
Quote from: ice grillin you on May 20, 2008, 11:20:20 AM
80's flyers > 70's + 90's X 00 flyers

Rod isn't better then the 8 guys above him the scoring list. That's certainly true.


I wasn't coherant enough as a 70's kid to remember the 70's Flyers any more then some excitment for winning a championship around the neighborhood. The 80's Flyers are what really got me hooked though. farging Oilers...

im also not old enough to remeber a lot of the 70's...definitely not the cup years....i remember probably from 78-79 on...


and im just talking about my personal favorites...rod is definitely better than many of mine...but id say my top 15 are probably from the 80's...the 87 flyers team might be my favorite sports team of all time...and rick tocchet is is my favorite athlete bar none i love him more than my next five combined


Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: Phanatic on May 20, 2008, 12:19:50 PM
Tocchet is a really good parallel to Brind. They both played 8 years for the Flyers (excluding Tocc's later return). They both could put up descent numbers. Tocchet was more of a warrior and agitator. Because of his hard nosed style he never completed a full season and went on to have his best year with someone else.... Philly sports... typical.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: Rome on May 20, 2008, 12:27:43 PM
Mike Richards will probably end up having a very similar career to Rod's.  He'll be a guy who doesn't miss games, he'll bust his ass defensively, he'll likely be the team captain, he'll be very productive offensively, and he'll center the second line for several years.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: rjs246 on May 20, 2008, 12:35:37 PM
I don't really see Richards having the same kind of offensive career that Brind'Amour has had, but otherwise I agree with you completely.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on May 20, 2008, 12:37:29 PM
Also, he's not nearly as ugly as Rod is yet.

UGLY ROD
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: rjs246 on May 20, 2008, 12:48:45 PM
I don't know about that. Richards ain't exactly pretty.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on May 20, 2008, 12:57:21 PM
Quote from: rjs246 on May 20, 2008, 12:35:37 PM
I don't really see Richards having the same kind of offensive career that Brind'Amour has had, but otherwise I agree with you completely.
i agree, and the NHL is a completely different game when Rod was in his prime.  I hated the trade when it happened, it had to happen since Lindros decided to lay the wood to Rod's wife, but the return for the first 2 seasons sucked.  Finally Primeau had a good playoffs, then basically became a coconut. 
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on May 20, 2008, 01:03:45 PM
Quote from: rjs246 on May 20, 2008, 12:48:45 PM
I don't know about that. Richards ain't exactly pretty.
my wife would disagree with you
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 20, 2008, 01:07:26 PM
then again she married you
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: SunMo on May 20, 2008, 01:11:08 PM
(http://www.ci.san-ramon.ca.us/afterschool/images/tee_ball.jpg)
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 20, 2008, 01:17:40 PM
(http://www.ericmcerlain.com/offwingopinion/archives/Images/rod-brindamour-111806.jpg)
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on May 20, 2008, 01:24:53 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on May 20, 2008, 01:07:26 PM
then again she married you
hey, i got lucky
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: Rome on May 20, 2008, 02:01:18 PM
you're right about the point totals not being similar because the era's are completely different.  when brind'amour was scoring 90-95 points, other guys in the nhl were scoring 150 in a season.  richards will likely attain a similar number of points compared to other top 2nd line centers just like brind'amour did in his era, though.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on May 29, 2008, 10:45:26 AM
http://www.delcotimes.com/WebApp/appmanager/JRC/Daily;jsessionid=NT9KL2XFJyQmPwc9QCDmyfvsx1yGsGd1651qn71m4GpPs4GYqNmR!-129032730?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pg_article&r21.pgpath=%2FDCT%2FSports&r21.content=%2FDCT%2FSports%2FHeadlineList_Story_2100626

QuoteThursday, May 29, 2008 

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Generation Gap: 25 reasons why we can't win 
Through a 100-season drought, Philly has had a wealth of losers 
By Anthony J. SanFilippo asanfilippo@delcotimes.com 
There have been hundreds of athletes who have graced --- or disgraced --- the Philadelphia sports world as Phillies, Eagles, Flyers or Sixers.

Many of their bosses and people both paid and paying to watch them have done the same.

When a city fails to win a championship for 100 consecutive seasons as Philadelphia has now, part of the healing process includes laying blame. There are a lot of players, coaches, managers, executives and general dopes to share in that.

Here are the 25 individuals or groups of people most responsible for the 25-year championship drought in Philadelphia:

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25. Lance Parrish: The ultimate when it comes to lousy free agent acquisitions by Philadelphia teams. In 1987, he was supposed to make the heart of the Phillies' lineup deadly. He did. Deadly to watch, that is.

24. Peter Forsberg: The Flyers let him get away as part of the Eric Lindros trade. He won a pair of Stanley Cups with Colorado, then returned to Philly a shell of his former best-player-in-the-world persona, complete with a laundry list of injuries. For one final blow, he returned to the Avalanche instead of the Flyers in 2008.

23. Freddie Mitchell: Supposed to be the answer to the Eagles' never-ending ball-catching shortcomings. He turned out to be a self-promoting, untalented dweeb.

22. Roman Cechmanek: Often brilliant in the regular season, a mental midget once the chips were down in the playoffs. The Flyers had a few talented teams in front of him, but could never win because of the goalie's fragile ego.

21. Derrick Coleman: The Sixers tried countless times to find a second banana to Allen Iverson. Of all those failures, no one set the club back more than D.C.

20. Allen Iverson: As bad a running mate as Coleman was, Iverson was a bad superstar. Exhilarating to watch and certainly one of the greatest under-6 footers in NBA history, but a team guy he wasn't.

19. Angelo Cataldi: Why a hyperventilating, sensitivity challenged talk show host? Because if there's anything he's good at, it's perpetuating angst. He turned griping about losing sports teams into an art form for a demographic that wouldn't know Howard Pyle from Gomer Pyle. Oh, and don't forget his busload of drunken Eagles draftniks booing Donovan McNabb.

18. Charles Barkley: A true pioneer in the art of spitting into a crowd. Also popularized demanding trades just because his team stinks.

17. J.D. Drew: One of the most hyped draft picks in Phillies history, he never played a game with them. While refusing to sign here, Drew and agent Scott Boras (pronounce that any way you wish) made the Phillies appear to be the least desirable franchise in pro sports.

No one bothered to ask if they were wrong.

16. Scott Rolen: If he only had a little patience, he could have been part of one of the best infields in Phillies history. Instead, Rolen was another guy who never understood Philadelphia and forced a trade.

The search for his replacement is still on.

15. Curt Schilling: Of all the superstar trades that netted Philadelphia nothing, the Schill switch hurt the most. They were just starting to get competitive again when he moved on to Arizona to win a World Series.

14. Buddy Ryan: Beloved by fans because of his candor. Beloved by his defense because he made them look so good. But when it came to the offense, he never put Randall Cunningham in a comfortable place, never found a real running back and had absolutely no idea from one series to the next what would or wouldn't work.

13. Rich Kotite (a.k.a. Richie the K): Improved the offense, but was constantly out-coached by his peers. The most damning scenario of all came one rainy day in Dallas when he went for a two-point conversion down by 11 points, and it failed. He should have kicked the extra point, but didn't. He blamed the decision on a misreading of his conversion chart that had the ink run in the rain. ... OK?

12. Bob Clarke: No, no, no ... not to be confused with Bobby Clarke, the local legend. This Clarke was an alter ego general manager who never was able to assemble a complete team built to do what he had done, win a Stanley Cup.

11. Reggie White: No player crushed the hopes and dreams of Eagles fans more than the Minister of Defense. The most dominant defensive player in Eagles history, and one of the greatest of all-time in the NFL, White bolted from the Eagles in 1993 heading for Green Bay. He was the first superstar in the NFL to switch teams via free agency, and his defection led to similar moves by other members of that great Eagles defense.

10. Philadelphia Sports Fans: They should share in the responsibility of losing, thanks to their utter impatience. Great fans. Intelligent fans. Passionate fans.

And all too often too quick to bury current athletes with the weight of the sins of their predecessors.

9. Eric Lindros (and Family): The poster children of unfulfilled expectations. Lindros was supposed to bring not one, but several Stanley Cups to Philadelphia. He only reached the finals once. And while he was sensational in the early part of his career, even winning the Hart Trophy as the NHL's MVP, his health started to become a problem. Concussions were all too common and led to bitterness between himself, his family, and the Flyers franchise. The divorce was as ugly as they come.

8. Mitch Williams: The Phillies closer in 1993, he blew a 14-9 lead in Game 4 of the World Series, allowing Toronto to win 15-14 and take a 3-1 lead. Then in Game 6, with the Phillies clinging to a 6-5 lead in the bottom of the ninth, he walked a batter and ultimately gave up a series-losing three-run homer to Joe Carter.

Hard to believe, Harry.

7. Jim Fregosi: As much as Williams broke the hearts of Phillies fans in 1993, Fregosi was the worst offender for his bullpen mismanagement. Why not leave Roger Mason in?

If Williams had a dead arm, why use him at all?

But Fregosi answered in his own way, such as publicly (but not for the record) suggesting that the residents of South Philadelphia were largely in-bred.

6. Donovan McNabb: If he were cheered on that draft day instead of booed by Team Cataldi, would he still feel so underappreciated?

His clouded vision of this town has driven him to be a failure at the most inopportune times.

5. Jeffrey Lurie: Two little words, and a lifetime of ridicule. But, that's what happened at Eagles training camp in 2003, when fresh off a horrendous loss the previous January in the NFC championship, Lurie declared his Eagles were the "gold standard" by which every other NFL team needed to measure themselves.

Just to reflect, the Eagles have zero championships in his 14 seasons as owner.

4. Ed Wade: See him on the street or at an airport and he seems like the nicest guy in the world. Hear his plight and you might find it in your heart to feel bad for the guy. Root for the Phillies, the team he generally mismanaged for seven seasons, and you wish you were his boss a long time ago.

3. Harold Katz: Dismantled one of the best franchises in NBA history. Following their 1983 championship, the Sixers had stunning defeats in 1984 and 1986 to heavy underdogs New Jersey and Milwaukee, respectively, sandwiched around a conference finals loss to Boston in '85.

In a pair of pitiful moves, Katz traded Moses Malone, Terry Catledge the rights to Brad Daugherty and picks for Jeff Ruland, Cliff Robinson and Roy Hinson.

The self-evisceration was complete.

2. Andy Reid: The most successful coach in Eagles history is also their most frustrating and disappointing field general. His smug approach to the game and air of superiority combine to form one huge Achilles' heel. Reid turned the Eagles from a debacle to a contender in just two seasons, but when it comes to getting over the top, he overlooks glaring weaknesses in personnel.

Think again, Arrogant Andy.

1. Bill Giles/David Montgomery/the "Gang of Six" silent partners: Add them all up and you have the people who own, operate and run the Phillies ... better known for some 20 years as the residents of the island of misfits.

They are in a sport without a salary cap. So they have their own. With policies such as that, these guys are the gold standard of championship droughts.

Norman Braman not being on here is a joke 


Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 29, 2008, 10:52:55 AM
about 60 hrs until the 25 year aniversary
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on May 29, 2008, 10:57:28 AM
yay, we having a parade?
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: MDS on May 29, 2008, 10:58:11 AM
Will we ever see this again? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRwYGSrmMYk&feature=PlayList&p=7B75D36E9A5FA3A3&index=31)
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: Phanatic on May 29, 2008, 11:18:16 AM
We need one of these again...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPYJodKri9c (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPYJodKri9c)
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on May 29, 2008, 11:20:24 AM
BTW, nice job on the link Seabiscuit.

LINK TO STORY THAT ACTUALLY WORKS AND DOESN'T STRETCH SCREEN (http://www.delcotimes.com/WebApp/appmanager/JRC/Daily;jsessionid=NT9KL2XFJyQmPwc9QCDmyfvsx1yGsGd1651qn71m4GpPs4GYqNmR!-129032730?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pg_article&r21.pgpath=%2FDCT%2FSports&r21.content=%2FDCT%2FSports%2FHeadlineList_Story_2100626)
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on May 29, 2008, 11:54:35 AM
Quote from: FastFreddie on May 29, 2008, 11:20:24 AM
BTW, nice job on the link Seabiscuit.

LINK TO STORY THAT ACTUALLY WORKS AND DOESN'T STRETCH SCREEN (http://www.delcotimes.com/WebApp/appmanager/JRC/Daily;jsessionid=NT9KL2XFJyQmPwc9QCDmyfvsx1yGsGd1651qn71m4GpPs4GYqNmR!-129032730?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pg_article&r21.pgpath=%2FDCT%2FSports&r21.content=%2FDCT%2FSports%2FHeadlineList_Story_2100626)
farg you Hate Mongerererr
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on May 29, 2008, 01:37:07 PM
The article is invalid with no mention of Gregg Jefferies!
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: QB Eagles on May 29, 2008, 06:29:40 PM
The article kinda sucks. The SI list of the top 100 worst moments during the championship drought was far deeper and much more accurate. I guess that's why some sportswriters go national and other ones get stuck writing for the Delco Times.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 Superbowl)
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on June 02, 2008, 05:59:01 AM
Quote from: ice grillin you on May 29, 2008, 10:52:55 AM
about 60 hrs until the 25 year aniversary

Did anyone else celebrate?  I got drunk, but it was Friday night, so chances are I probably would have regardless.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 NBA Championship)
Post by: ice grillin you on June 18, 2008, 08:12:44 AM
i still wanna know what a POS city like boston ever did to deserve this...six in seven years now...last night was their first at home since 86
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 NBA Championship)
Post by: ice grillin you on September 23, 2008, 10:21:57 AM
dont look now but theres a very good chance of all four philly teams making the playoffs in their respective leagues and a realistic shot of all four winning their division

now if just one of them can come thru and end this madness

the health of the cities teams hasnt been this good for a long time
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 NBA Championship)
Post by: phattymatty on September 23, 2008, 12:39:12 PM
my money is on the sixers
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 NBA Championship)
Post by: hbionic on September 23, 2008, 12:43:14 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on September 23, 2008, 10:21:57 AM
dont look now but theres a very good chance of all four philly teams making the playoffs in their respective leagues and a realistic shot of all four winning their division

now if just one of them can come thru and end this madness

the health of the cities teams hasnt been this good for a long time

Once again, no one cares about your other loser teams.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 NBA Championship)
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on September 23, 2008, 01:02:05 PM
If all four make it, we'll go 0 for 4.  Mark MY WORDS
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 NBA Championship)
Post by: ice grillin you on September 23, 2008, 01:40:47 PM
Quote from: hbionic on September 23, 2008, 12:43:14 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on September 23, 2008, 10:21:57 AM
dont look now but theres a very good chance of all four philly teams making the playoffs in their respective leagues and a realistic shot of all four winning their division

now if just one of them can come thru and end this madness

the health of the cities teams hasnt been this good for a long time

Once again, no one cares about your other loser teams.


people in LA dont care about ANYTHING
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 NBA Championship)
Post by: hbionic on September 23, 2008, 01:44:45 PM
Yes we do, Traffic and Vanity.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 NBA Championship)
Post by: ice grillin you on September 23, 2008, 01:47:06 PM
and roller skating in nut huggers
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 NBA Championship)
Post by: hbionic on September 23, 2008, 01:56:04 PM
(http://www.thejabberwock.org/blog/2/word.gif)
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 NBA Championship)
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on September 23, 2008, 02:34:37 PM
ban hbionic?
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 NBA Championship)
Post by: QB Eagles on September 23, 2008, 07:21:41 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on September 23, 2008, 10:21:57 AM
dont look now but theres a very good chance of all four philly teams making the playoffs in their respective leagues and a realistic shot of all four winning their division

now if just one of them can come thru and end this madness

the health of the cities teams hasnt been this good for a long time

It is a glorious time. We'd have this situation a lot more often if the Phils didn't take 15 year breaks between being contenders.

As evidenced by my signature, getting into the playoffs is not the city's problem though... we average very close to two teams in the playoffs per year.

I don't know what the all-time record is for number of playoff series a city's teams have been to without bringing home any championships, but this current Philly stretch has to be way up there.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 NBA Championship)
Post by: ice grillin you on October 10, 2008, 09:04:13 AM
i can see it now...

lightning over flyers
bucs over birds
rays over phils
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 NBA Championship)
Post by: SunMo on October 10, 2008, 09:15:04 AM
followed by blade over jugular
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 NBA Championship)
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on October 10, 2008, 09:43:40 AM
Quote from: SunMo on October 10, 2008, 09:15:04 AM
followed by blade over femoral
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 NBA Championship)
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on October 29, 2008, 10:17:54 PM
Kindly take us the farg off this list.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 NBA Championship)
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on October 29, 2008, 10:23:05 PM
farg that List, its the start of a revolution
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 World Series)
Post by: SunMo on October 30, 2008, 11:08:02 AM
It burns when I pee
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 World Series)
Post by: SD_Eagle5 on October 30, 2008, 12:05:03 PM
ITS fargING OVER!
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 World Series)
Post by: hunt on October 30, 2008, 07:36:39 PM
well done, phils.  now the nat'l media can stop harping on the championship drought & focus on the real stories...like booing santa claus.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 World Series)
Post by: phattymatty on November 03, 2008, 03:17:14 PM
125: Cleveland ('64 Browns) [NBA, MLB, NFL]
92: San Diego ('63 Chargers (AFL)) [MLB, NFL]
89: Seattle ('79 Supersonics) [NBA, MLB, NFL]
81: Buffalo ('65 Bills (AFL)) [NHL, NFL]
76: Milwaukee ('71 Bucks) [NBA, MLB]
63: Minneapolis ('91 Twins) [ALL]
54: New Orleans [NBA, NFL]
54: Washington ('91 taterskins) [ALL]  ;D
52: Oakland ('89 Athletics) [NBA, MLB, NFL]
49: Atlanta ('95 Braves) [ALL]
47: Kansas City ('85 Royals) [MLB, NFL]
37: Cincinnati ('90 Reds) [MLB, NFL]
37: Dallas ('00 Stars) [ALL]
34: Houston ('95 Rockets) [NBA, MLB, NFL]
33: Portland ('77 Trail Blazers) [NBA]
31: Salt Lake City [NBA]
31: Charlotte [NBA, NFL]
30: San Francisco ('94 49ers) [MLB, NFL]
29: Denver ('01 Avalanche) [ALL]
26: Phoenix ('01 Diamondbacks) [ALL]
25: Sacramento [NBA]
22: Orlando [NBA]
20: Nashville [NHL, NFL]
16: San Jose [NHL]
16: Baltimore ('00 Ravens) [MLB, NFL]
15: Jacksonville [NFL]
13: Green Bay ('96 Packers) [NFL]
13: New Jersey ('03 Devils) [NBA, NHL]
12: Chicago ('05 White Sox) [ALL]
11: Tampa ('04 Lightning) [NHL, MLB, NFL]
9: Memphis [NBA] (includes 1 season as home to the Tennessee Oilers)
9: Miami ('06 Heat) [ALL]
8: Columbus [NHL]
8: Los Angeles ('07 Ducks) [ALL]
7: Pittsburgh ('06 Steelers) [NHL, MLB, NFL]
7: St Louis ('06 Cards) [NHL, MLB, NFL]
4: New York ('08 Giants) [ALL]
3: Indianapolis ('07 Colts) [NBA, NFL]
2: Detroit ('08 Red Wings) [ALL]
1: San Antonio ('07 Spurs) [NBA]
1: Boston ('08 Celtics) [ALL]
0: Philadelphia ('08 Phillies) [ALL]
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 World Series)
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on November 03, 2008, 03:35:34 PM
BO-NERS.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 World Series)
Post by: ice grillin you on December 19, 2008, 08:22:49 AM
philly faces the number 8 sports suffering city three times this weekend


Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 World Series)
Post by: QB Eagles on December 20, 2008, 11:10:05 AM
Quote from: ice grillin you on December 19, 2008, 08:22:49 AM
philly faces the number 8 sports suffering city three times this weekend

1 down, 2 to go
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 World Series)
Post by: phattymatty on December 20, 2008, 01:04:41 PM
good game last night.  i paid $11 for tickets and sat in row 10.  washington fans are so awful. 
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 World Series)
Post by: QB Eagles on December 20, 2008, 06:22:32 PM
Quote from: QB Eagles on December 20, 2008, 11:10:05 AM
Quote from: ice grillin you on December 19, 2008, 08:22:49 AM
philly faces the number 8 sports suffering city three times this weekend

1 down, 2 to go

2 down, 1 to go
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 World Series)
Post by: BigEd76 on December 29, 2008, 10:17:09 AM
Philly was the only city to have all of its pro sports teams reach the playoffs this year...  :yay
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 World Series)
Post by: ice grillin you on December 29, 2008, 10:18:54 AM
is that for cities with four teams or all cities?
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 World Series)
Post by: BigEd76 on December 29, 2008, 10:57:27 AM
all of the cities with at least 2 teams, so I'm leaving out ones like Orlando, Utah, Calgary, etc.

If the Patriots had made it, all of Boston's teams would have reached too.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 World Series)
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on December 29, 2008, 01:39:14 PM
Quote from: BigEd76 on December 29, 2008, 10:17:09 AM
Philly was the only city to have all of its pro sports teams reach the playoffs this year...  :yay

Streak to be broken by the Sixers?
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 World Series)
Post by: MDS on December 29, 2008, 01:43:38 PM
they got a shot at the 8 seed, outside of boston, orlando and lebrons the east is about as lame as sunmos family christmas photos that came up on my facebook feed
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 World Series)
Post by: ice grillin you on January 29, 2009, 01:46:23 PM
no idea where to post this but attendance figures and tv ratings for nba and nhl...

Atlanta
NBA: Hawks
NHL: Thrashers

Attendance
Hawks: 16,398 (87.6%)
Thrashers: 14,361 (77.4%)

TV Ratings
Hawks: 1.4
Thrashers: 0.2

Boston
NBA: Celtics
NHL: Bruins

Attendance
Celtics: 18,624 (100%)
Bruins: 16,731 (89.8%)

TV Ratings
Celtics: 3.7
Bruins: 2.2

Chicago
NBA: Bulls
NHL: Blackhawks

Attendance
Bulls: 21,003 (96.7%)
Blackhawks: 22,495 (114.7%)

TV Ratings
Bulls: 2.3
Blackhawks: 1.1

Dallas
NBA: Mavericks
NHL: Stars

Attendance
Mavericks: 20,020 (104.3%)
Stars: 17,645 (95.2%)

TV Ratings
Mavericks: 1.2
Stars: 0.5

Denver
NBA: Nuggets
NHL: Avalanche

Attendance
Nuggets: 16,820 (87.8%)
Avalanche: 15,797 (87.7%)

TV Ratings
Nuggets: 1.8
Avalanche: 1.7

Detroit
NBA: Pistons
NHL: Red Wings

Attendance
Pistons: 22,076 (100%)
Red Wings: 19,724 (98.3%)

TV Ratings
Pistons: 3.9
Red Wings: 3.7

South Florida
NBA: Heat
NHL: Panthers

Attendance
Heat: 17,754 (90.6%)
Panthers: 14,967 (77.8%)

TV Ratings
Heat: 2.2
Panthers: 0.2

Los Angeles
NBA: Lakers and Clippers
NHL: Kings

Attendance
Lakers: 18,997 (99.7%)
Clippers: 15,443 (81.0%)
Kings: 15,965 (86.3%)

TV Ratings
Lakers: 4.2
Clippers: 0.6
Kings: 0.4

Minnesota
NBA: Timberwolves
NHL: Wild

Attendance
Timberwolves: 13,730 (70.9%)
Wild: 18,568 (102.8%)

TV Ratings
Timberwolves: 1.1
Wild: 2.2

New Jersey
NBA: Nets
NHL: Devils

Attendance
Nets: 15,152 (75.8%)
Devils: 15,313 (86.9%)

TV Ratings
Nets: 0.6
Devils: 0.4

New York
NBA: Knicks
NHL: Rangers

Attendance
Knicks: 19,132 (96.8%)
Rangers: 18,200 (100%)

TV Ratings
Knicks: 1.2
Rangers: 1.0

Philadelphia
NBA: 76ers
NHL: Flyers

Attendance
76ers: 14,536 (71.5%)
Flyers: 19,428 (99.6%)

TV Ratings
76ers: 1.5
Flyers: 2.2

Phoenix

NBA: Suns
NHL: Coyotes

Attendance
Suns: 18,422 (100%)
Coyotes: 14,801 (84.6%)

TV Ratings
Suns: 3.4
Coyotes: 0.5

Bay Area
NBA: Warriors
NHL: Sharks

Attendance
Warriors: 18,855 (96,2%)
Sharks: 17,483 (99.9%)

TV Ratings
Warriors: 1.5
Sharks: 1.3

Washington
NBA: Wizards
NHL: Capitals

Attendance
Wizards: 16,854 (83.5%)
Capitals: 17,973 (96.3%)

TV Ratings
Wizards: 1.1
Capitals: 1.2
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 World Series)
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on January 29, 2009, 01:56:25 PM
how about Pittsburgh? 

LOL at any team south of the DC Line
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 World Series)
Post by: ice grillin you on January 29, 2009, 01:58:15 PM
they dont have an nba team but im sure the lil guy can provide you with the numbers
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 World Series)
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on January 29, 2009, 02:04:11 PM
i'd love to see the MLB #'s for them, they have to be atrocious
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 World Series)
Post by: QB Eagles on January 29, 2009, 05:49:22 PM
Quote from: Seabiscuit36 on January 29, 2009, 02:04:11 PM
i'd love to see the MLB #'s for them, they have to be atrocious

19,865/game in 2008, better than only the Marlins and Royals. It's 51.6% in percentage full terms since it's a small ballpark.

I saw them beat the Cubs there on Memorial Day weekend... they had great attendance for that game but it was half Cubs fans and over a holiday. It's too bad the team sucks so bad because the park is the best I've been to.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 World Series)
Post by: MDS on January 29, 2009, 08:08:17 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on January 29, 2009, 01:58:15 PM
they dont have an nba team but im sure the lil guy can provide you with the numbers

i think theyre pretty good.

no nba team + city with no night life = good tv ratings
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 World Series)
Post by: ice grillin you on February 21, 2009, 06:01:34 PM
what a horrible sports afternoon
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2008 World Series)
Post by: SD_Eagle5 on February 21, 2009, 07:07:59 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on February 21, 2009, 06:01:34 PM
what a horrible sports afternoon

I wasted a good buzz on two crushing losses. zesty day.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on April 17, 2009, 07:10:44 PM
how cool is sunday gonna be

1:35 - padres at phils
3:05 - pens @ flyers
5:30 - sixers @ the romeys
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: QB Eagles on April 17, 2009, 10:33:51 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on April 17, 2009, 07:10:44 PM
how cool is sunday gonna be

1:35 - padres at phils
3:05 - pens @ flyers
5:30 - sixers @ the romeys

If tonight's games are any indication (and we don't need an indication to guess about the Sixers), it might not be that cool.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on April 17, 2009, 10:37:19 PM
i personally cant wait...maybe im a glutton for punishment but its gonna be incredible...seven straight hours of philly sports
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: phillymic2000 on April 19, 2009, 04:55:25 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on April 17, 2009, 10:37:19 PM
i personally cant wait...maybe im a glutton for punishment but its gonna be incredible...seven straight hours of philly sports

:yay
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: PhillyGirl on April 19, 2009, 05:01:48 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on April 17, 2009, 10:37:19 PM
i personally cant wait...maybe im a glutton for punishment but its gonna be incredible...seven straight hours of philly sports

I had shtein to do today.

None of it got done. lol

And next weekend is the draft. Yay for sports related procrastination.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on April 19, 2009, 05:58:01 PM
The draft is a little anticlimatic, now that the Eagles don't have that 4th rounder.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: QB Eagles on April 19, 2009, 08:17:41 PM
3/3 :yay
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on April 19, 2009, 08:19:44 PM
**** yeah!....what a day

walk off homer
pennsyltucky beatdown
huge road win
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: phillymic2000 on April 19, 2009, 08:47:38 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on April 19, 2009, 08:19:44 PM
**** yeah!....what a day

walk off homer
pennsyltucky beatdown
huge road win

Farg yeah, watched all three with my 5 yr. old boy. He is a carbon copy of me, hanging on every play and every call. My 7 yr. old daughter watched most of the Flyers game with us, but she was screaming for more fights everytime the puck stopped, fargin hilarious. Great day baby!
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: BigEd76 on May 27, 2009, 11:39:22 AM
With the Penguins and Magic (likely) going to the finals after going through a Philly team, I looked at the last 20 years and came up with this list:

1991 Bulls
1992 Cowboys
1995 Devils
1995 Cowboys
1996 Panthers (FLA)
2000 Devils
2000 Pacers
2000 Giants (NY)
2001 Rams
2002 Buccaneers
2003 Panthers (CAR)
2004 Lightning
2005 Pistons
2007 Rockies
2008 Penguins
2008 Cardinals (AZ)
2009 Penguins
2009 Magic?

All of these teams knocked a Philly team out of the playoffs on their way to the finals of their sport...  :-\
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: QB Eagles on May 27, 2009, 06:36:10 PM
Not surprising considering how often Philly teams get knocked out the playoffs.  I used to keep that ticker in my sig... before the Phillies won, I think the number of consecutive playoff appearances without a championship was up to 43, a truly huge number that I'm not even sure Cleveland can touch. Hell, it's back up to 3 already.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 28, 2009, 08:11:20 AM
Quote from: QB Eagles on May 27, 2009, 06:36:10 PM
before the Phillies won, I think the number of consecutive playoff appearances without a championship was up to 43, a truly huge number that I'm not even sure Cleveland can touch. Hell, it's back up to 3 already.

just going off the top of my head it had to be in the 50's didnt it....or at least the very high 40's

Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: QB Eagles on May 28, 2009, 05:32:09 PM
Yeah I must have mis-remembered my number. It got up to 47. Between May 31, 1983 and October 29, 2008, the following bums were eliminated from the playoffs:

Phillies (1983, 1993, 2007)
Sixers (1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008)
Flyers (1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008)
Eagles (1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006)

In a little over 40 years of existence, the Flyers have had two stretches of 11+ years in which they have made the playoffs every year and not won the Cup.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: Sgt PSN on May 28, 2009, 06:45:00 PM
Quote from: QB Eagles on May 28, 2009, 05:32:09 PM
Yeah I must have mis-remembered

is that you, roger? 
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: QB Eagles on May 28, 2009, 06:46:50 PM
Here's the current Playoff Futility Index:

Cleveland: 38 (going on 39?)
Buffalo: 33
Seattle: 32
Minneapolis: 25
Milwaukee: 22
Atlanta: 22
Dallas: 21
Washington: 20
Portland: 20

No one close to 47.

igy, here's a correction to your main list: the Stars won in 1999, not 2000. Might affect Dallas' number.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: QB Eagles on May 28, 2009, 06:53:44 PM
Quote from: Sgt PSN on May 28, 2009, 06:45:00 PM
Quote from: QB Eagles on May 28, 2009, 05:32:09 PM
Yeah I must have mis-remembered

is that you, roger? 

Dunno which I enjoyed more: Clemens obviously perjuring himself, or the sports media not being aware that misremember is an actual word that Clemens used correctly.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 28, 2009, 08:00:44 PM
Quote from: QB Eagles on May 28, 2009, 06:46:50 PM
Here's the current Playoff Futility Index:

Cleveland: 38 (going on 39?)
Buffalo: 33
Seattle: 32
Minneapolis: 25
Milwaukee: 22
Atlanta: 22
Dallas: 21
Washington: 20
Portland: 20

No one close to 47.

igy, here's a correction to your main list: the Stars won in 1999, not 2000. Might affect Dallas' number.


not a completely fair comparison tho as none of those cities had/have four teams

altho it goes both ways and you could say phillys drought was worse because you had to live thru four teams losing instead of two or three

that said clevelands current drought is definitely the worst ever with phillys pre 08 losing streak second
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: QB Eagles on May 28, 2009, 08:17:24 PM
Each style of drought is bad in their own way. All Portland has is the Blazers and look how much they have cockteased the city after winning everything in their first playoff season. Now even Greg Oden sucks.

Cleveland, Buffalo, and Seattle are all completely miserable sports cities, and their fans all have the same kind of crushed, defeated spirit as Philly fans had. [The difference is Philly is a huge 4-team city that is a much bigger sports town than any of those places.] Obviously as long as Cleveland has LeBron though, they are liable to break their streak any year. With Buffalo and Seattle there is no end in sight, really. Seattle lost their only team that ever won anything.

Minneapolis, Atlanta, Dallas, and Washington are all 4-team cities. Here's to hoping that Dallas or Washington break through 47.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: MDS on May 28, 2009, 08:20:26 PM
cleveland = beyond the worst

hockey is barely a big sport and theyre not missing anything. plus their football team moved to freaking baltimore.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 28, 2009, 08:36:18 PM
Quote from: QB Eagles on May 28, 2009, 08:17:24 PM
Minneapolis, Atlanta, Dallas, and Washington are all 4-team cities. Here's to hoping that Dallas or Washington break through 47.


my point is that none have been four team cities for nearly as long as the 25 year philly drought...meaning their make the playoffs numbers cant really be compared to phillys since philly could increse theirs more easily
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: Sgt PSN on May 29, 2009, 12:14:18 PM
Quote from: QB Eagles on May 28, 2009, 08:17:24 PM
Cleveland, Buffalo, and Seattle are all completely miserable sports cities, and their fans all have the same kind of crushed, defeated spirit as Philly fans had.

having lived there for a few years, i can tell you without a doubt that seattle fans do not have the same kind of crushed and defeated spirit that philly fans had prior to the WS last year.  and it's not that seattle fans aren't supported of their teams.  but sports do not rank as high on the priority list for people living in that part of the country.  seattle sports fans don't live and die with their teams.  for them, win or lose, their lives go on virtually unaffected.  and if the mariners and seahawks packed up today and moved, everyone up there (sans the few diehards) would be over it in a couple of weeks and would go back to starbucks and drink crapacinnos while blogging about how they cry every time they see a tree get cut down or how they can't wait to get a new body piercing or how excited they are to go shopping for a new pair of berkenstocks. 
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 29, 2009, 02:30:14 PM
yeah seattle is a joke and buffalo has two teams....in no way can either be compared to philly
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: Sgt PSN on May 29, 2009, 02:35:56 PM

Buffalo is a good sports town enev though they only have 2 teams...one of which is hockey and barely even counts. But bills fan are just as tortured as eagles fans. Maybe even more since the bills were knocking on the door 4 years in a row. 
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 29, 2009, 02:44:10 PM
i dont give a flying farg about bills fans...im talkin sports CITIES and buffalo is awful
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: Don Ho on May 29, 2009, 08:57:18 PM
Honolulu is a perfect 1000.  Someone always wins the Pro Bowl!

With that said I hope Miami keeps that pathetic game.  Listening to adults starting "NFC" & "AFC" chants has lead me to the top of Aloha Stadium to find a nice, high place to jump many a time.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: QB Eagles on May 29, 2009, 10:17:18 PM
They announced months ago that the 2011 and 2012 Pro Bowls are going to be in Hawaii.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: Don Ho on May 29, 2009, 10:38:39 PM
Quote from: QB Eagles on May 29, 2009, 10:17:18 PM
They announced months ago that the 2011 and 2012 Pro Bowls are going to be in Hawaii.

Don't remind me.   Maybe VS. channel will get the rights.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: Geowhizzer on May 29, 2009, 11:31:41 PM
Quote from: Don Ho on May 29, 2009, 10:38:39 PM
Quote from: QB Eagles on May 29, 2009, 10:17:18 PM
They announced months ago that the 2011 and 2012 Pro Bowls are going to be in Hawaii.

Don't remind me.   Maybe VS. channel will get the rights.

If it does, I'm sure the NHL will be bumped.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 Super Bowl)
Post by: Don Ho on May 30, 2009, 08:05:58 PM
Quote from: Geowhizzer on May 29, 2009, 11:31:41 PM
Quote from: Don Ho on May 29, 2009, 10:38:39 PM
Quote from: QB Eagles on May 29, 2009, 10:17:18 PM
They announced months ago that the 2011 and 2012 Pro Bowls are going to be in Hawaii.

Don't remind me.   Maybe VS. channel will get the rights.

If it does, I'm sure the NHL will be bumped.

NO!
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 NBA Finals)
Post by: ice grillin you on October 08, 2009, 09:23:30 PM
solid day of games


fyi - your 76ers are the only undefeated team so far this week
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 NBA Finals)
Post by: ice grillin you on October 18, 2009, 04:41:07 PM
shaping up to be one of the all time worst sports weekends ever and thats saying a lot for philly
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 NBA Finals)
Post by: QB Eagles on October 18, 2009, 04:46:33 PM
Bit premature for that, and besides, the Giants and taterskins lost.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 NBA Finals)
Post by: phillymic2000 on October 18, 2009, 04:50:45 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on October 18, 2009, 04:41:07 PM
shaping up to be one of the all time worst sports weekends ever and thats saying a lot for philly

Drama Queen
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2009 World Series)
Post by: ice grillin you on December 08, 2009, 08:13:44 AM
flyers/sixers 1-19 in their last 20 games
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on April 09, 2010, 07:05:36 PM
a last last channel night

the jerus and flyer rangers at 7

fightins at 8

Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: MDS on April 09, 2010, 08:53:40 PM
how big is this weekend of the 76ers? 2 losses and little help and they are in a great spot heading into the final 2 games.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: MDS on May 13, 2010, 12:36:26 AM
anytime you think you are suffering, think you have it tough, think about whining like a bunch of faggy boston fans, remember this era

QuoteIt seems every year somebody accuses the Phillies of stealing signs, doesn't it?

"Every year," Shane Victorino said. "Every year we're accused of cheating somehow."

The latest accusation: The Rockies complained to Major League Baseball that Phillies bullpen coach Mick Billmeyer used binoculars from the visitor's bullpen in center field Monday to help relay signs to Phillies hitters.

MLB issued the Phillies a warning.

"Absolutely no," Charlie Manuel said of the accusations. "Absolutely (bleeping) no. Absolutely not."

Rockies manager Jim Tracy strongly disagreed.

"As far as I'm concerned, it's out of line," he said. "It's one thing in my opinion to go out and play a club as tough as you can possibly play it within the framework of the way they've structured things to be done. And cheating, until you get caught, nobody says that you don't explore something like that. But if you're cheating and you get caught, you know what? Then you'd better do something about it. That's my reaction to that."

A FOXSports.com report said the Mets might have complained about the Phillies stealing signs earlier this season, but the Phillies and MLB are unaware of it. But the Mets have suspected the Phillies of stealing signs for some time. They formally complained to MLB in 2007, saying they use a camera in center field to help relay signs to hitters at the plate.

Manuel got fired up when the Mets were mentioned.

"Somebody ought to check on the Mets if they did (complain) because their ... home record is out of this world and they're losing on the road," Manuel said. "That's a good indication sometimes, if you want to know about signs and (stuff). When I see somebody is 17-2 at home and 4-12 on the road I kind of get concerned about that. That kind of crosses my mind."

The Mets are 14-7 at home and 4-8 on the road.

So why do so many teams think the Phillies are stealing signs? Former Phillies manager Larry Bowa, who coaches third base for the Los Angeles Dodgers, said during the 2009 World Series that teams suspect the Phillies of stealing signs at Citizens Bank Park using a center field camera.

"Because we beat them," Manuel said. "That's why. What the hell? Keep crying. I'm sure if they can steal signs they'll steal them. And believe we will, too, if we can get them. Yeah, we will. Legally. If you're dumb enough to let us get them then that's your fault. That's been in the game for a long time."

uncle chuck = gawd
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 19, 2010, 11:45:22 AM
with the wizards getting wall i got to thinking has one city ever had three stud #1 overall picks all under the age of 25 at the same time

wall
ovechkin
strasburg

is pretty amazing to have
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: BigEd76 on May 19, 2010, 12:11:16 PM
Not only that, but I can't remember the last time a city had 3 teams with top 5 picks in the same year (Skins #4, Nats #1, Wiz #1)...
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: Drunkmasterflex on May 19, 2010, 12:14:08 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on May 19, 2010, 11:45:22 AM
with the wizards getting wall i got to thinking has one city ever had three stud #1 overall picks all under the age of 25 at the same time

wall
ovechkin
strasburg

is pretty amazing to have

I heard mention of that on ESPN I believe last night.  That is some crazy shtein. 
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on May 19, 2010, 12:17:35 PM
Best Teams EVER.  How amazing is it that when they hit rock bottom they happen to all have amazing talents available to draft.  Same as the pens. 
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 19, 2010, 12:22:11 PM
Quote from: Drunkmasterflex on May 19, 2010, 12:14:08 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on May 19, 2010, 11:45:22 AM
with the wizards getting wall i got to thinking has one city ever had three stud #1 overall picks all under the age of 25 at the same time

wall
ovechkin
strasburg

is pretty amazing to have

I heard mention of that on ESPN I believe last night.  That is some crazy shtein. 

did they answer the question

i can come up with a couple...but the ages wont match up

atlanta chose vick and kovalchuck in the same year and also had chipper

ny had potvin strawberry and ewing
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: BigEd76 on May 19, 2010, 12:32:40 PM
Philly almost had it 10 years ago with Iverson, Burrell and McNabb (and they would've had #1 if it wasn't for the return of the Browns)
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: SunMo on May 19, 2010, 12:33:31 PM
that didn't quite work out like we had hoped it would
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: Drunkmasterflex on May 19, 2010, 12:43:20 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on May 19, 2010, 12:22:11 PM
Quote from: Drunkmasterflex on May 19, 2010, 12:14:08 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on May 19, 2010, 11:45:22 AM
with the wizards getting wall i got to thinking has one city ever had three stud #1 overall picks all under the age of 25 at the same time

wall
ovechkin
strasburg

is pretty amazing to have

I heard mention of that on ESPN I believe last night.  That is some crazy shtein. 

did they answer the question

i can come up with a couple...but the ages wont match up

atlanta chose vick and kovalchuck in the same year and also had chipper

ny had potvin strawberry and ewing

No it was just a statement really. 
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 20, 2010, 12:06:50 PM
even more ridiculous is that the nats are going to get bryce harper with the number one pick this summer and hes a better offensive prospect than strasberg is a pitching prospect...in fact he might be the number hitting prospect of all time
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on May 20, 2010, 09:21:35 PM
But his name is Bryce.

Auto-fail.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 21, 2010, 07:09:34 AM
unless you play lacrosse
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 26, 2010, 10:57:45 AM
(http://media.philly.com/images/Flydecade26z-a.jpg)
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: Sgt PSN on May 26, 2010, 11:10:46 AM
Hahahaha, the pic of Iverson stepping over Lue is money.  Sadly, that shot is my most vivid memory of that series.  But what a moment that was though. 
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 26, 2010, 11:16:02 AM
unfortunately my lasting memory was in the first half of game three when dikembe mutombo got tossed like a rag doll into the first row behind the basket by shaq who proceeded to grab the rebound and almost tear the backboard down when he dunked the ball

thats when i was like holy shtein the friggin nba defensive player of the year just got treated like christian welp...this series is not going to end well
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on May 26, 2010, 11:18:05 AM
Pittsburgh isnt on there but they've had an unbelieveable run. 
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: Sgt PSN on May 26, 2010, 11:18:39 AM
Quote from: Seabiscuit36 on May 26, 2010, 11:18:05 AM
Pittsburgh isnt on there but they've had an unbelieveable run. 

That's because they only have 3 pro sports teams. 
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: SunMo on May 26, 2010, 11:19:55 AM
Quote from: ice grillin you on May 26, 2010, 11:16:02 AM
unfortunately my lasting memory was in the first half of game three when dikembe mutombo got tossed like a rag doll into the first row behind the basket by shaq who proceeded to grab the rebound and almost tear the backboard down when he dunked the ball

thats when i was like holy shtein the friggin nba defensive player of the year just got treated like christian welp...this series is not going to end well

that being said, they were still up 10 in the 4th of game 2.  now maybe the series would've only gone for the Lakers in 6 instead of 5, but you can't help but wonder what would've happened if they came home up 2-0
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 26, 2010, 11:24:41 AM
Quote from: Sgt PSN on May 26, 2010, 11:18:39 AM
Quote from: Seabiscuit36 on May 26, 2010, 11:18:05 AM
Pittsburgh isnt on there but they've had an unbelieveable run. 

That's because they only have 3 pro sports teams. 

and even at that only two have won
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: Seabiscuit36 on May 26, 2010, 11:36:56 AM
2 outta 3 sports, both with league help
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: MDS on May 26, 2010, 12:26:42 PM
and keep in mind hockey doesnt really count
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on May 26, 2010, 03:49:38 PM
lolz @ Washington
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 Super Bowl)
Post by: QB Eagles on May 27, 2010, 06:20:25 AM
Quote from: FastFreddie on May 26, 2010, 03:49:38 PM
lolz @ Washington

Exactly. Best part of that entire infographic.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 NBA Finals)
Post by: ice grillin you on June 22, 2010, 03:33:29 PM
with the conclusion of the nba finals this year cleveland hits the 130 season mark

pretty amazing
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 NBA Finals)
Post by: ice grillin you on October 24, 2010, 06:45:04 PM
(http://www.scottandtemphotography.com/reganandryan/images/174.jpg)
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 World Series)
Post by: ice grillin you on December 14, 2010, 09:43:03 PM
streaks

flyers 7-1-3 in the last eleven
sixers 6-2 in the last eight
eagles 7-2 in the last nine
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 World Series)
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on December 20, 2010, 11:05:35 AM
Biggest choke jobs in sports history (http://msn.foxsports.com/nhl/lists/Infamous-chokers-gallery#photo-title=2010%20Giants&photo=23630074)

Philly is on the good side of three of them and the bad side of 1.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 World Series)
Post by: ice grillin you on December 21, 2010, 10:13:30 AM
(http://media.philly.com/storage/dailynews/covers/front.jpg)
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 World Series)
Post by: BigEd76 on March 01, 2011, 01:41:43 PM
Forbes' list of most miserable sports cities (http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/most-miserable-sports-city-in-america-022811?GT1=39002)

1 Seattle
2 Atlanta
3 Phoenix
4 Buffalo
5 San Diego
6 Houston
7 Kansas City
8 Cleveland
9 Denver
10 Cincinnati
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 World Series)
Post by: ice grillin you on March 01, 2011, 01:42:36 PM
cleveland @ #8 is a huge list fail
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 World Series)
Post by: DH on March 01, 2011, 02:49:54 PM
how the hell is seattle #1?? there are few venues in any sport louder than qwest, and mariners fans were great during the griffey era..granted, they lost their nba team but that was clay bennets fault, not the citys. that list sucks.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 World Series)
Post by: Sgt PSN on March 01, 2011, 02:58:46 PM
I like the comments where you have all these fans arguing about why MLS championships don't count. 
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 World Series)
Post by: Don Ho on March 01, 2011, 03:13:23 PM
QuoteThe list, released Monday, is not a direct reflection of futility but rather a "sports heartbreak index" that identifies the city in which fans had teams good enough to give them hope, only to ultimately let them down.

Forbes staff must be bored.
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 World Series)
Post by: DH on March 01, 2011, 03:38:24 PM
Quote from: Sgt PSN on March 01, 2011, 02:58:46 PM
I like the comments where you have all these fans arguing about why MLS championships don't count. 

believe it or not, the sounders make more money on the business side of sports than most of the teams in the four major sports..
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 World Series)
Post by: Sgt PSN on March 01, 2011, 04:10:25 PM
Quote from: DH on March 01, 2011, 03:38:24 PM
Quote from: Sgt PSN on March 01, 2011, 02:58:46 PM
I like the comments where you have all these fans arguing about why MLS championships don't count. 

believe it or not, the sounders make more money on the business side of sports than most of the teams in the four major sports..

It a town like Seattle, that doesn't surprise me one bit.  Seattle has a very "European" look and feel to it, so it would be fitting that a professional soccer team would do well in that area. 
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 World Series)
Post by: ice grillin you on March 01, 2011, 04:21:25 PM
is european in quotes because you really mean it has a vaginal look and feel to it
Title: Re: sports suffering cities (thru 2010 World Series)
Post by: Rome on March 01, 2011, 04:28:39 PM
Lol at Atlanta & Phoenix being referred to as sports cities.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on April 01, 2011, 04:19:12 PM
1. phillies - check
2. flyers -
3. sixers -


triple header bitch-es!!

DOWN goes the dirty jerz tonight
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on April 05, 2011, 09:42:42 PM
one of the worst regular season sports nites in quite a while....thanks to all the teams and their terrible performances
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: Sgt PSN on April 05, 2011, 10:03:08 PM
OVER REACTION!
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: BigEd76 on April 05, 2011, 11:53:04 PM
all this day was missing was another Braves win and an Eagle blowing out a knee
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on April 15, 2011, 04:28:02 PM
still cant believe how retarded tomorrow is going to be

perfectly staggered trio of games

supposed to pour buckets all day...perfect for staying inside having some grey goose and fresh squeezed orange juice screwdrivers and make a spread of banging food

whos IN
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: SunMo on April 15, 2011, 04:47:25 PM
i can down there by opening tip boom
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: Sgt PSN on April 15, 2011, 04:54:20 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on April 15, 2011, 04:28:02 PM
whos IN

Your mice.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: phattymatty on April 15, 2011, 04:54:57 PM
i just canceled plans to go to philly...if sunny is in, i am in.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: SunMo on April 15, 2011, 04:57:32 PM
i don't think he was expecting people to actually answer
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: phattymatty on April 15, 2011, 05:00:02 PM
yeah i was kinda joking but if you're really going i could cruise up there. would be much cheaper than the 12 hour bar excursion which will happen otherwise.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: Rome on April 15, 2011, 05:12:41 PM
Buy me a plane ticket and I'm there.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: Diomedes on April 15, 2011, 05:53:19 PM
shtein, I have the day off and my wife does too, which means I have child care...I could work on the guest room or go hang at igy's house...

got any kind bud?  say you do and I"m in...since I'll have to drive home, alcohol won't be the best drug for this party
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on April 15, 2011, 06:17:19 PM
Quote from: SunMo on April 15, 2011, 04:57:32 PM
i don't think he was expecting people to actually answer

i wasnt but LETS DO THIS!
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: MDS on April 15, 2011, 06:58:55 PM
Pay for my plane ticket you rich jesus lover
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: Eagles_Legendz on April 15, 2011, 08:41:21 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on April 15, 2011, 04:28:02 PM
still cant believe how retarded tomorrow is going to be

perfectly staggered trio of games

supposed to pour buckets all day...perfect for staying inside having some grey goose and fresh squeezed orange juice screwdrivers and make a spread of banging food

whos IN

i'd be in if i was invited and could get out of going to my gfs family's house.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on April 15, 2011, 10:50:03 PM
I will be with you all in spirit.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: Eagles_Legendz on April 15, 2011, 10:52:54 PM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on April 15, 2011, 10:50:03 PM
I will be with you all in spirit.

I'm just trying to savor the last few months up here.  I may be moving to Alabama in August.

:paranoid
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on April 15, 2011, 10:57:35 PM
JFC

Whats in Alabama?!
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: Eagles_Legendz on April 15, 2011, 11:05:19 PM
university of alabama for law school.

finally had enough of the family biz and needed to get out.  deciding between emory wake and bama but bama is offering to pretty much pay my way which is hard to pass up right now. 

i flew down to tuscaloosa a few weeks ago and liked the town but the rest of the state, not so much.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: Rome on April 15, 2011, 11:12:36 PM
UA Law School:  HANG stillupfronts!!

Here's your diploma.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: Eagles_Legendz on April 15, 2011, 11:19:56 PM
Hah yea yea.  Bama's law school is actually pretty good in terms of national recognition and rankings.  It's not Mississippi etc etc.  The problem is law in general right now is regional unless you're at Harvard/Yale/Stanford, meaning I'd have to work in Bama or the surrounding states probably after graduation. 

anyway, back to getting plastered at igy's.  that's the topic of this thread.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: Rome on April 15, 2011, 11:23:30 PM
Topic: IGY
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on April 15, 2011, 11:36:59 PM
Get plastered and solicit retainers from that crew.

Eagles_Legendz, Esq. CF board attorney
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on April 18, 2011, 11:13:43 AM
7pm - phils brewers
7pm - sixers heat
7pm - flyers sabres

stupid
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: QB Eagles on April 24, 2011, 12:50:37 PM
This afternoon: Potential double elimination.

If shtein goes south, at least Halladay can pull off the sweep.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: MDS on April 24, 2011, 06:35:20 PM
1pm sixers HOLLA
3pm flyers AT
4pm phils YO BOI
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: QB Eagles on April 24, 2011, 06:35:38 PM
Quote from: QB Eagles on April 24, 2011, 12:50:37 PM
This afternoon: Potential double elimination.

If shtein goes south, at least Halladay can pull off the sweep.

3/3. Great sports afternoon.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: BigEd76 on April 24, 2011, 10:42:33 PM
#3, #4 and #5 headlines on ESPN.com right now
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on June 14, 2011, 07:29:59 AM
if the bruins win the cup heres what the last ten years in boston will have looked like...how farging sick is this

2001 - patriots sb champs
2003 - patriots sb champs
2004 - patriots sb champs
2005 - red sox ws champs
2007 - red sox ws chanmps
2008 - celtics nba champs
2011 - bruins stanley cup champs

and that doesnt even count this....2011 - red sox ws champs
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: MDS on June 14, 2011, 01:03:33 PM
lol there it is

already sucking off the sox after the marlins and braves let you down

pathetic
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: Sgt PSN on June 14, 2011, 01:14:31 PM
Didn't you know that igy is originally from Chelsea? 
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: SD on June 14, 2011, 06:29:38 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on June 14, 2011, 07:29:59 AM
if the bruins win the cup heres what the last ten years in boston will have looked like...how farging sick is this

2001 - patriots sb champs
2003 - patriots sb champs
2004 - patriots sb champs
2005 - red sox ws champs
2007 - red sox ws chanmps
2008 - celtics nba champs
2011 - bruins stanley cup champs

and that doesnt even count this....2011 - red sox ws champs

Every Boston championship from the last 10 years has been tainted.
Pats because of spygate
Sox because 3/4 of their players were on HGH/roids
Celtics because they tanked to get a better draft pick
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on June 14, 2011, 06:48:37 PM
id literally pay off the comissioner of a league to get a championship
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: QB Eagles on June 14, 2011, 09:29:49 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on June 14, 2011, 06:48:37 PM
id literally pay off the comissioner of a league to get a championship

but you still feel incomplete because the phillies won after a rain delay

go figure
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: ice grillin you on June 14, 2011, 09:47:00 PM
well if i paid off the comissioner im assuming id get a non anticlimatic world series...not the debacle that was that rain delay...id also love to beat a real team


if the phillies beat the red sox in the world series this year my life would basically be complete
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: Don Ho on June 14, 2011, 09:59:25 PM
I still hate that son of a bitch Selig for that debacle. 
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: MDS on June 14, 2011, 11:35:31 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on June 14, 2011, 09:47:00 PM
well if i paid off the comissioner im assuming id get a non anticlimatic world series...not the debacle that was that rain delay...id also love to beat a real team


if the phillies beat the red sox in the world series this year my life would basically be complete

another reason to root for them

1. you kill yourself
2. i get your money
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: Sgt PSN on June 15, 2011, 12:28:06 AM
Quote from: Don Ho on June 14, 2011, 09:59:25 PM
I still hate that son of a bitch Selig for that debacle. 

I'm no Selig apologist, but what was the guy supposed to do?  The weather was terrible and wasn't going to let up.  Yeah, he could have called the game before Tampa scored the tying run, but if he would have done that then everyone would be bitching about how the Phils won a series on a shortened game.  And really, would you want to see them win the series in a rain shortened, 5 inning game?  No one wants to see that.  Maybe you could argue that Selig should have let the Phils bat in the bottom of the 6th after Tampa tied it.  But he didn't want the series to end on a rain out and postponed play for 2 days.  And the only way he could suspend play was if the game was tied.  Had Tampa taken the lead in the 6th, the Phils would have batted in the bottom half and if they wouldn't have tied the game, it would have ended right there and game 6 would have been played in Tampa with the Phils leading 3-2.  There's a lot of things to bitch about with sports but the way Selig handled it isn't anywhere near the top of my list.  Phils won and I really don't give a damn that the game was played over the course of 2 days.  WFC, bitches.   
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: Don Ho on June 15, 2011, 03:56:36 AM
What pissed me off was MLB knew this massive storm front was moving in and at the rate WS games move the thing was going to hit during the middle of a possible series clinching game.  I agree, I could give a shtein if they played the thing in the banquet room of the Holiday Inn across the CBP parking lot.  Rain or shine, still one of the greatest feelings ever as a Philadelphia sports fan watching both game 5A and Game 5B.  The 5th and top of the 6th inning were the worst conditions I've ever seen a baseball game played in.  Remember Upton sliding into second?  He looked like a hydrofoil on Puget Sound.   
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: Sgt PSN on June 15, 2011, 01:32:13 PM
So you would have preferred that they just postponed the game from the get go.  Ideally, that probably would have been the best decision.  But then you'd really be pissing off a lot of fans who spent money on tickets for that game who may not have been able to attend the rescheduled game.  Granted, that would probably make up less than 5% of those in attendance, but I'm sure it's something that they took into consideration. 
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (thru 2011 Super Bowl)
Post by: Geowhizzer on June 15, 2011, 02:14:43 PM
Yeah, just looking at the weather report at the beginning of the game, and (of course after the fact) the result of trying to play, they should never have started that game.

But, the Phils won - and that's all that matters in the end.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Bostons Last Championship)
Post by: ice grillin you on June 15, 2011, 11:00:58 PM
boston titles in the last ten years = seven

philadelphia titles ever = nine
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Bostons Last Championship)
Post by: Rome on June 15, 2011, 11:08:26 PM
To be fair the Patriots don't play in Boston.  They almost moved to farging Hartford a few years ago.

And no one in Boston cares about them anyway.   shtein, I'll bet more people watched the Red Sox/Rays game tonight than the Bruins game 7.

farg Boston.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Bostons Last Championship)
Post by: MDS on June 15, 2011, 11:13:19 PM
ehhh no. bruins actually have great ratings in boston.

if anything boston doesnt give a shtein about the celtics. ill give you one guess why.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Bostons Last Championship)
Post by: Rome on June 15, 2011, 11:14:10 PM
boston people hate the irish?
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Bostons Last Championship)
Post by: MDS on June 15, 2011, 11:15:04 PM
sure. thats it.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Bostons Last Championship)
Post by: Don Ho on June 15, 2011, 11:15:27 PM
They hate black irish.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Bostons Last Championship)
Post by: Don Ho on June 15, 2011, 11:17:50 PM
Quote from: MDS on June 15, 2011, 11:13:19 PM
ehhh no. bruins actually have great ratings in boston.

if anything boston doesnt give a shtein about the celtics. ill give you one guess why.

Bruins are huge in Boston.  Very loyal following.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Bostons Last Championship)
Post by: Rome on June 18, 2011, 07:20:38 AM
Quote from: Don Ho on June 15, 2011, 11:15:27 PM
They hate black irish.

lol
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Bostons Last Championship)
Post by: DH on June 18, 2011, 09:15:18 AM
Quote from: Rome on June 15, 2011, 11:08:26 PM
And no one in Boston cares about them

this is the truth..remember we talked about how many more sox hats we were seeing at XXXIX than we were pats hats. granted the sox had just won their first title in 86 years, but it's super bowl weekend for shteins sake.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Bostons Last Championship)
Post by: Rome on June 18, 2011, 09:38:02 AM
Yep.  But according to some teevee ratings are a better barometer than your own effing eyeballs.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Bostons Last Championship)
Post by: ice grillin you on September 14, 2011, 12:51:24 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/galleries/philly_sports_fans_worst_moments/philly_sports_fans_worst_moments.html
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Dallas Mavericks)
Post by: Sgt PSN on September 14, 2011, 01:05:48 PM
LOL @ the NY media.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Dallas Mavericks)
Post by: PoopyfaceMcGee on September 14, 2011, 04:13:40 PM
(http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2010/06/09/gal_philly_fans_01.jpg)

Holy shtein, Dawkins is old.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Dallas Mavericks)
Post by: ice grillin you on October 09, 2011, 04:10:35 PM
1. philadelphia
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Dallas Mavericks)
Post by: Don Ho on December 22, 2011, 05:55:26 PM

This will put you in the holiday spirit.

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/20111222_GRATING_EXPECTATIONS.html?nlid=4072488 (http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/20111222_GRATING_EXPECTATIONS.html?nlid=4072488)
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Dallas Mavericks)
Post by: Rome on January 02, 2012, 06:07:28 PM
Another miserable soul-crushing loss for Philly.

FMMFL.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Dallas Mavericks)
Post by: Geowhizzer on January 02, 2012, 06:20:54 PM
Quote from: Rome on January 02, 2012, 06:07:28 PM
Another miserable soul-crushing loss for Philly.

FMMFL.

Threw what was in my hand at the end and hit my television.  Fortunately it was the rag I was using to clean up my shelf from Christmas stuff.  If it was the remote, it would have been bye-bye TV.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Dallas Mavericks)
Post by: Don Ho on January 02, 2012, 06:25:41 PM
Ha!  I've got nothing left to throw after the bums collapse.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Dallas Mavericks)
Post by: Rome on January 03, 2012, 09:02:56 AM
The Zen-like feeling I had after the Phillies won in '08 is completely gone now.   I figured that win would make up for 30 years of losing otherwise and for awhile it did.  Not anymore.  With each new disappointment comes the feeling I had before the Phillies won that I'll never see another championship in my lifetime.  I actually wish I didn't care so much but I do.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru St. Louis Cardinals)
Post by: ice grillin you on January 18, 2012, 09:46:52 AM
its step up week....

sixers have beaten one team this year that has more than (5) wins....that was indiana (9-3) at home who was missing their best player...combined records of the teams they have beaten this year = 28-79....this week they face denver (9-5).....atlanta (10-4) albeit without al horford...and miami (10-4)

flyers have to prove they are in the same league as boston...huge home game against them sunday...but they also have to go to red hot new jersey on sat

LETS DO THIS!
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru St. Louis Cardinals)
Post by: Sgt PSN on February 29, 2012, 01:16:01 AM
With the exception of 1989, one of the 4 major Philly sports teams has played for but ultimately lost a championship in every Presidential Inaugural year since 1977.  So, yeah, 2013 won't be worth watching unless you enjoy watching gut wrenching championship losses. 

'77: Sixers lost to Blazers
'81: Eagles lost to Raiders
'85: Flyers lost to Oilers
'89: none
'93: Phillies lost to Blue Jays
'97: Flyers lost to Red Wings
'01: Sixers lost to Lakers
'05: Eagles lost to Patriots
'09: Phillies lost to Yankees
'13: ??? lost to ???
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru St. Louis Cardinals)
Post by: phattymatty on May 04, 2012, 12:45:37 PM
pretty cool

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2012/05/sports_championship_map_explore_every_championship_in_the_history_of_mlb_the_nba_the_nhl_and_the_nfl_.html
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru St. Louis Cardinals)
Post by: QB Eagles on May 04, 2012, 12:56:28 PM
Of the 17 Philly championships, eight are for long-gone teams and another three are pre-merger NFL championships.

There are a bunch of individual franchises that have more championship wins that matter than our whole city.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru St. Louis Cardinals)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 04, 2012, 06:29:26 PM
this is new......welcome to philly sports pittsburger
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru St. Louis Cardinals)
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on May 12, 2012, 10:07:32 PM
Good nugget posted by Rovell on Twitter; with Caps loss Washington now has longest drought of four team cities...20yrs.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru St. Louis Cardinals)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 12, 2012, 10:10:24 PM
except they only had four teams for like six of those 20 years
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru St. Louis Cardinals)
Post by: MDS on May 12, 2012, 10:12:21 PM
and they win a title every other year since the big sport in dc is politics
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru St. Louis Cardinals)
Post by: ice grillin you on March 28, 2013, 08:23:19 AM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on May 12, 2012, 10:07:32 PM
Good nugget posted by Rovell on Twitter; with Caps loss Washington now has longest drought of four team cities...20yrs.

minnesota last title - october 27, 1991
washington last title - january 26, 1992




in 60 days we will have reached the one year mark since a philadelphia team has even played a postseason game
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Baltimore Ravens)
Post by: Sgt PSN on March 28, 2013, 08:35:17 AM
Minny didn't have 4 teams during that 20 yr stretch though.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Baltimore Ravens)
Post by: ice grillin you on March 28, 2013, 08:49:37 AM
Quote from: Sgt PSN on March 28, 2013, 08:35:17 AM
Minny didn't have 4 teams during that 20 yr stretch though.

nor did washington

in fact minnesota had four teams for 14 of the 20 years and washington only had four teams for 8 of the 20 years
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Baltimore Ravens)
Post by: Sgt PSN on March 28, 2013, 10:23:44 AM
Haha.....the Nats never crossed my mind.  I also just realized that phreaks post you quoted is a year old too.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru Baltimore Ravens)
Post by: ice grillin you on October 31, 2013, 09:05:01 AM
boston this century

2001 - patriots
2003 - patriots
2004 - patriots
2004 - red sox
2007 - red sox
2008 - celtics
2011 - bruins
2013 - red sox

whats amazing about this is not the number of titles tho that is ridiculous....its that all four teams won....it wasnt like the bulls six peating while all chicagos other teams werent doing shtein
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '13 Red Sox)
Post by: Rome on October 31, 2013, 09:33:49 AM
The Bears, Bulls, White Sox & Blackhawks have all won since 1985 but all you ever hear about is the poor Cubs fans suffering.

OMG boo hoo.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '13 Red Sox)
Post by: ice grillin you on October 31, 2013, 09:51:07 AM
i totally get your point and dont disagree with its general premise but the cubs streak is pretty unbelievable and can kind of stand on its own

105 years is unfathomable....especially when you consider the next longest championship drought in pro sports is the indians with 64 years
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '13 Red Sox)
Post by: Rome on October 31, 2013, 10:39:02 AM
The FSL Daytona Cubs have won 6 league titles since 1993.   Cubs fans always have those to fall back on.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '13 Red Sox)
Post by: hbionic on November 01, 2013, 02:40:47 AM
When teams like the Tampa Bay bucs or the Florida Marlins are winning championships before your own supposedly more established team does, it makes you want to jump off a bridge.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '13 Red Sox)
Post by: ice grillin you on November 01, 2013, 09:12:05 AM
do you really even count tampa since LA doesnt have a football team?
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '13 Red Sox)
Post by: hbionic on November 01, 2013, 05:10:51 PM
You're so silly. I'm this close to buying you a Boston jersey. Maybe that one where it has all of the teams stitched into one...with the taterskins jersey as the back.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '13 Red Sox)
Post by: ice grillin you on December 14, 2013, 05:29:27 PM
new england patriots - 1st place
boston bruins - 1st place
boston celtics - 1st place
boston red sox - world series champions
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '13 Red Sox)
Post by: MDS on December 14, 2013, 05:40:42 PM
what place are the flyers in?
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '13 Red Sox)
Post by: ice grillin you on December 14, 2013, 05:44:45 PM
400th
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '13 Red Sox)
Post by: ice grillin you on January 28, 2014, 11:00:25 AM
seven current nfl cities have never won a football championship of any kind....take out the two that got their first franchise in the 90's and you are down to just five

seattle winning makes it four

atlanta, cincinnati, houston, minnesota
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '13 Red Sox)
Post by: QB Eagles on January 28, 2014, 11:11:36 PM
My buddy is a Lions fan and has pretty well convinced me that no NFL fanbase has it as bad. Old school pre-merger NFL team, one playoff win since 1957. Zero Super Bowl appearances. Pissed away the career of one of the all time greats, who retired while still at peak performance because he couldn't deal with that joke franchise anymore. Now working on pissing away Calvin's career. Owning family is horrendous and there is no prospect of them ever selling the team. The Lions have no real heart-wrenching losses because they never play in any games that matter. They've played against the Bears and Packers and Vikings forever but there's no rivalries, just openly expressed pity. 0-16. My friend fantasizes about the Lions having the same level of success as the Eagles, and the Eagles haven't won shtein.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '13 Red Sox)
Post by: MDS on January 29, 2014, 12:30:52 AM
but they have the red wings...pistons won in the last decade had the bad boys...

philly has ______
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '13 Red Sox)
Post by: ice grillin you on January 29, 2014, 07:23:01 AM
Quote from: MDS on January 29, 2014, 12:30:52 AM
philly has ______

a rain delayed world series win over the devil rays
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '14 Spurs)
Post by: MDS on December 15, 2014, 01:41:12 AM
is there a 4 for 4 city in worse shape than philly?

boston - farg off
chicago - drose, blackhawks, lester
dallas - cowboys!
denver - peyton
detroit - wings
miami - doesnt count, they dont care, but the heat have 2 more titles in the last decade than they deserve
minny - legit debate but they have teddy b
ny - NO
phx - doesnt count but NO anyway
san fran - giants, warriors
the district - natitude, bullets
----
phila - joke eagles, pathetic flyers, disgusting phillies, tanking disgrace farcical embarrassment sixers WE WIN
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '14 Spurs)
Post by: ice grillin you on December 15, 2014, 01:50:25 AM
sixers automatically makes them not the worst

chip kelly is a disgrace tho
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '14 Spurs)
Post by: MDS on December 15, 2014, 11:56:58 AM
that was a solid 0/2 response
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '14 Spurs)
Post by: hbionic on December 15, 2014, 04:43:18 PM
This is such an East coast thread.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '14 Spurs)
Post by: Don Ho on December 15, 2014, 05:04:31 PM
Go Soul!
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '14 Spurs)
Post by: phattymatty on December 27, 2014, 11:16:44 AM
50 years today since cleveland's last title.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '14 Spurs)
Post by: Don Ho on December 27, 2014, 08:30:01 PM
this thread always cheers me up and I expect it to the next decade.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '14 San Fran Giants)
Post by: MDS on January 19, 2015, 12:34:09 AM
boston titles since 2000 - 7 (pending 8  )
philadelphia titles ever - 6 (or 9 if you cant pre SB eagles)

you people seriously root for the most pathetic loser teams
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '14 San Fran Giants)
Post by: BigEd76 on February 01, 2015, 11:20:52 PM
wah, Boston had to wait a whole year for another title
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '14 San Fran Giants)
Post by: MDS on February 02, 2015, 12:42:14 AM
boston has nearly double the legit titles this century that philly has all time
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '14 San Fran Giants)
Post by: Don Ho on February 02, 2015, 03:52:11 AM
farg

With the incompetent ownerships/FO's we have before us in this town, we can expect another title around roughly 2030. 

Birds 1960
Bums  1980 & 2008 (farging miracle we have one we can all remember)
Flyers 1975
Sixers 1983

Holy shtein!  Just sickening.  I always thought the Flyers would be our go to team and have at least two cups in the 90's and maybe another one.  I honestly thought the Phillies would be the last team to win a championship.  Sixers should have had multiple titles with Doc & Co.  Ahhh, than we have the birds.  farg you Tose you drunken fool, Vermeil you uptight control freak, Braman you foolish prick, Lurie you indifferent putz and AR you big game clueless farg. 

I feel better now.  Good night.

Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '14 San Fran Giants)
Post by: SD on February 04, 2015, 03:11:52 PM
(http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/multimedia/photo_gallery/0805/philadelphia.100.seasons/images/01.eagles-ronde-barber.jpg)
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 New England Patriots)
Post by: smeags on February 04, 2015, 04:58:45 PM
My head was in my hands at this point while Jr was saying, "it will be ok daddy."
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 New England Patriots)
Post by: MDS on February 04, 2015, 05:34:34 PM
they showed their youth
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 New England Patriots)
Post by: ice grillin you on February 04, 2015, 07:32:53 PM
that game was bookended by the loudest i ever heard the vet with the b mitch return and the quietest ive ever heard a stadium during the int return
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 New England Patriots)
Post by: SD on February 04, 2015, 08:18:41 PM
Almost spent a grand between ticket and air fare to fly home for that game. Best money I never spent.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 New England Patriots)
Post by: hbionic on February 04, 2015, 09:23:27 PM
I'm renaming the city of Philadelphia from "Suckadelphia" to "Suckacockia" until further notice. It's more fitting.



Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 New England Patriots)
Post by: BigEd76 on February 25, 2015, 09:37:05 AM
Chicago lost Rose and Kane on the same night. wah
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 New England Patriots)
Post by: ice grillin you on February 25, 2015, 09:43:08 AM
jordan is a lifetime pass and the blackhawks have won two cups in the last five years....plus kane hurt his collarbane or something and might be out a month or two
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 New England Patriots)
Post by: Don Ho on March 11, 2015, 12:30:58 AM
jesus christ, we got Dr. Frankenstein running the birds, Sponge Bob Square Pants running the bums, Cliff Lee being Cliff Lee, the Flyers can't get out of their own way, Sixers and what ever the hell is going on over there and the #1 pick who won't sniff the court until ?.  It's really bad.  I'm afraid, very afraid.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 New England Patriots)
Post by: phattymatty on March 11, 2015, 09:57:03 AM
seemed like there was always at least one bright spot in philly sports over the last dozen or so years but i don.t see anything right now. i guess the eagles are still the favorite to have any success but it could go either way.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 New England Patriots)
Post by: Don Ho on March 11, 2015, 06:00:39 PM
Seriously, that shtein fest over at the Nova Care is the only hope.  Faint as it may be that's it.  2015 is gonna suck.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: Munson on March 17, 2016, 07:42:54 PM
Ask Siri where sadness is, she finds Browns stadium (http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14994878/sadness-cleveland-siri-finds-browns-home)
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: Sgt PSN on March 17, 2016, 09:03:13 PM
That video is sadness.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 10, 2016, 11:52:02 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CiJR7ApXAAADBa8.jpg)
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: Rome on May 11, 2016, 08:06:16 AM
So we're 1/13.   Awesome.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 11, 2016, 08:10:47 AM
1-13 still has to be better than 0-0

better to have to loved and lost....

right?
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: QB Eagles on May 11, 2016, 08:44:29 AM
Quote from: Rome on May 11, 2016, 08:06:16 AM
So we're 1/13.   Awesome.

More like 1/20 if you take it back to 1983.

Still, when you look at the table, things haven't been so bad this millennium. The Washington 0s are great obviously but so are the 0s for the Knicks and Cowboys.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: smeags on May 11, 2016, 08:53:43 AM
im thinking igy was pointing out the ineptitude of his beloved d.c.


:paranoid
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: SD on May 11, 2016, 09:00:44 AM
He put money on them but said they were underdogs and he's glad they lost. Don't even try to rationalize that logic.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 11, 2016, 09:05:55 AM
what makes philly worse at 1-13 than 0-0 is that philly cares that they are 1-13....sports is everything in philly...caps lose last night its we will get them next year....everything strictly lives in the moment...theres zero big picture.....its cool to rock the red for a playoff run but once its over its like oh well whatever....now what should we do.....oh yeah...lets pretend we really care a lot about the nats for the summer

where as the thirst for winning in philly is beyond palpable every day in season or out


Quote from: SD on May 11, 2016, 09:00:44 AM
He put money on them but said they were underdogs and he's glad they lost. Don't even try to rationalize that logic.

i piss money so the loss of that is irrelevant...i would have easily paid a hundy before the series if it guaranteed a caps loss....but this time it was the rare occasion where the reverse psychology bet also had value...i got one of the best regular season teams of all time at plus money in the second round of the playoffs...pretty sure that's never happened.....it only happened here cause of the nhl's dumber than dumb playoff system
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: smeags on May 11, 2016, 09:19:53 AM
Quote from: ice grillin you on May 11, 2016, 09:05:55 AM


i piss money so the loss of that is irrelevant...


sounds kinda like a trump campaign slogan.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: Rome on May 11, 2016, 09:30:25 AM
Ha!  That is exactly what I thought when I read that. 
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 11, 2016, 09:50:43 AM
difference is im running for president of D4...trump is running for president of the free world
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: smeags on May 11, 2016, 10:17:54 AM
yeah, that's for pointing that out.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '15 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: QB Eagles on May 20, 2016, 09:30:15 PM
Barring the 76ers inexplicably trading the No. 1 overall draft pick that they were awarded Tuesday, ESPN Stats & Info reports that Philadelphia becomes the first city that will draft within the top two in three major sports in one calendar year.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Denver Broncos)
Post by: ice grillin you on June 13, 2016, 01:33:45 AM
chips since the sixers won in 1983

pittsburgh 6
philly 1
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Denver Broncos)
Post by: QB Eagles on June 13, 2016, 02:18:44 AM
san antonio 5
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Denver Broncos)
Post by: hbionic on June 13, 2016, 01:06:18 PM
Awww...poor widdle phiwadelphia! But at least no one can ever take your perpetual "Caring the most for sports" championship title.

Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Denver Broncos)
Post by: ice grillin you on June 13, 2016, 06:23:53 PM
and no one can take the roller blading chip from your disgraceful city
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: ice grillin you on June 19, 2016, 10:55:00 PM
youre up san diego
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: MDS on June 19, 2016, 10:55:50 PM
in terms of real 4 for 4 cities its detroit

wow
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: ice grillin you on June 19, 2016, 11:01:48 PM
I don't care how much you care about sports you are not at the top of any losing list when you've won in the last ten years....plus they had the pistons in 2004
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: MDS on June 19, 2016, 11:06:32 PM
i dont disagree....maybe minnesota deserves some love? i know those people really dont care about anything but phoenix and dc are pathetic jokes

basically now we're down to individual teams deserving a title, like the vikings and bills, and not so much cities
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: ice grillin you on June 20, 2016, 07:51:58 AM
I don't think Minnesota is really any better than Phoenix or dc...maybe slightly...they are all cities who care it's just that they have a very low level of caring and they don't hate losing enough

cities like sd and atl don't care at all
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: ice grillin you on June 23, 2016, 07:58:29 AM
if the cavs parade estimates are close to true they had twice as many people as the Phillies had in a city four times smaller....pretty amazing
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: QB Eagles on June 25, 2016, 02:17:27 PM
Nothing we don't already know, but: http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/16472883/sports-misery-index-cleveland-passes-crown-most-tortured-fans-san-diego-buffalo
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: MDS on June 25, 2016, 05:07:49 PM
nothing will be more ridiculous than a 4 for 4 city going 25 years between titles
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: QB Eagles on July 12, 2016, 03:18:01 PM
ESPN has compiled their 25 worst collapses of all-time. (http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/16685483/hall-flameout-25-worst-collapses-sports-history)

This is one area where Philadelphia hasn't been hit especially hard. Maybe because in order to collapse, you have to have expectations. For whatever reason, Philly teams have authored plenty of collapses and gut punches for other teams, but when our teams die it's more of slowly unfolding tragedy.

The one legendary Philly collapse on the list wasn't even the worst Gene Mauch collapse.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: smeags on July 12, 2016, 04:11:20 PM
Quote from: QB Eagles on July 12, 2016, 03:18:01 PM
ESPN has compiled their 25 worst collapses of all-time. (http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/16685483/hall-flameout-25-worst-collapses-sports-history)

This is one area where Philadelphia hasn't been hit especially hard. Maybe because in order to collapse, you have to have expectations. For whatever reason, Philly teams have authored plenty of collapses and gut punches for other teams, but when our teams die it's more of slowly unfolding tragedy.

The one legendary Philly collapse on the list wasn't even the worst Gene Mauch collapse.

this is still my favorite.

10. New York Mets, 2007 NL East race
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on July 12, 2016, 07:59:15 PM
Yeah that was fun.

I'd love to go back and relive it
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: QB Eagles on July 12, 2016, 08:23:07 PM
I liked how that Braves one made the list too. It ended up working against the Phillies in the long run, but it was daily fun checking up on the standings. And then in the final game the Phils got to Craig Kimbrel who was the golden boy that whole season.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on July 12, 2016, 09:05:31 PM
That Giants-Niners game was fun. Good ol Trey Junkin

And if forgotten about the putrid collapse of the 95 Angels
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: MDS on July 12, 2016, 10:42:41 PM
its always fun when the philly team loses but in some other game the rival team has an awful loss

haha other team!
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on July 13, 2016, 12:38:19 AM
haha at your worn out emo sports fan schtick
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: smeags on July 13, 2016, 07:58:59 AM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on July 13, 2016, 12:38:19 AM
haha at your worn out emo sports fan schtick

pwnd !
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: ice grillin you on July 13, 2016, 08:06:59 AM
lol at mocking the giant niner game

I guess mocking one of the great franchises in all of sports for one game makes up for the Eagles 4000 years of being pathetic

my god
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: SD on July 13, 2016, 08:39:14 AM
How doesn't the Bruins collapse up 3-0 then going up 3-0 in game 7 against the Flyers not make the list?
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: smeags on July 13, 2016, 08:40:49 AM
Quote from: SD on July 13, 2016, 08:39:14 AM
How doesn't the Bruins collapse up 3-0 then going up 3-0 in game 7 against the Flyers not make the list?

yeah that should certainly be up there but I guess that 1942 red wings collapse was the token NHL entry. 
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: MDS on July 13, 2016, 08:57:45 AM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on July 13, 2016, 12:38:19 AM
haha at your worn out emo sports fan schtick

haha at the eagles for losing at home to the bucs because thats what happened 2 weeks after this

since that game the giants have won 2 super bowls and the eagles have won...let me check...oh yea, none.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: smeags on July 13, 2016, 09:11:44 AM
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3239/2989093961_800f8f00be_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: ice grillin you on July 13, 2016, 10:31:01 AM
Quote from: SD on July 13, 2016, 08:39:14 AM
How doesn't the Bruins collapse up 3-0 then going up 3-0 in game 7 against the Flyers not make the list?

it absolutely should be...its not a very good list
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: QB Eagles on July 13, 2016, 10:59:08 AM
It's ESPN, they rarely acknowledge the existence of the NHL.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: Sgt PSN on July 13, 2016, 11:04:25 AM
I checked out on that list when I saw a regular season college hoops game on there.  Also, even though it just happened like 2 weeks ago, how do you leave the Dubs off that list?  Team with the most reg season wins in history blows a 3-1 Finals lead, along with game 7 on their home court.  That's gotta be in there somewhere.   
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: ice grillin you on July 13, 2016, 11:22:50 AM
thunder choked against the warriors worse than the warriors did the cavs...up 3-1 and up 7 with five minutes left at home in game six...then got outscored I think 21-5
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: QB Eagles on July 13, 2016, 11:28:20 AM
Absolutely the Thunder choke was more brutal, and the 1-2 of that devastating series and then Durant leaving for the opponent magnifies it even more. Only argument is that the Ws were a better team, but a collapse is a collapse.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: Sgt PSN on July 13, 2016, 11:41:18 AM
In terms of straight choke job, yes, the OKC was worse.  But if you add weight for the significance of the choke....Finals chip vs Conf chip....then I'd still give the edge to the Dubs.  Both should be on that list somewhere, but I'd still rank the Dubs choke higher than OKC.   
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on July 13, 2016, 12:35:29 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on July 13, 2016, 08:06:59 AM
lol at mocking the giant niner game

I guess mocking one of the great franchises in all of sports for one game makes up for the Eagles 4000 years of being pathetic

my god

Um...who mocked it?! It was a fun game to watch. Jesus Christ you and lil guy need counseling
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: Don Ho on August 26, 2016, 10:28:16 PM
Soul?  Someone? Anyone?  Didn't think so.

Out of curiosity I tried to find the score on my phone.  shtein for coverage, even on the espn site.  Easier getting bowling updates.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: ice grillin you on August 27, 2016, 07:06:39 AM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on July 13, 2016, 12:35:29 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on July 13, 2016, 08:06:59 AM
lol at mocking the giant niner game

I guess mocking one of the great franchises in all of sports for one game makes up for the Eagles 4000 years of being pathetic

my god

Um...who mocked it?! It was a fun game to watch. Jesus Christ you and lil guy need counseling

arena is a fun game to watch?

Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: Eagaholic on August 27, 2016, 10:44:08 AM
Quote from: Don Ho on August 26, 2016, 10:28:16 PM
Soul?  Someone? Anyone?  Didn't think so.

Out of curiosity I tried to find the score on my phone.  shtein for coverage, even on the espn site.  Easier getting bowling updates.
Philadelphia won Arena Bowl 29 last night. Anybody else flying in for the parade?
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: MDS on August 27, 2016, 01:08:58 PM
they played their home games largely in allentown
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: Don Ho on August 27, 2016, 08:21:36 PM
Shaun Kauleinamoku Hawaii boy who went off last night for soul.  Local press didn't say shtein.  Granted it was a huge sports day here yesterday with Hawaii football's season opener, Hawaii Women's Volleyball season opener (almost as big as the football opener) with #6 Hawaii vs #4 Wisconsin, but this poor SOB got nothing.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on August 27, 2016, 08:53:06 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on August 27, 2016, 07:06:39 AM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on July 13, 2016, 12:35:29 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on July 13, 2016, 08:06:59 AM
lol at mocking the giant niner game

I guess mocking one of the great franchises in all of sports for one game makes up for the Eagles 4000 years of being pathetic

my god

Um...who mocked it?! It was a fun game to watch. Jesus Christ you and lil guy need counseling

arena is a fun game to watch?

Wut
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: Sgt PSN on August 29, 2016, 03:27:35 AM
Arena football is fun to watch.  But I don't watch it.  Except that one time....and I had fun. 
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: ice grillin you on September 22, 2016, 12:00:28 PM
washington dc folks

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2016/09/21/dear-d-c-bars-please-put-on-the-nats-game-now/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: smeags on September 22, 2016, 12:26:00 PM
 :-D
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on September 22, 2016, 12:52:10 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on September 22, 2016, 12:00:28 PM
washington dc folks

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2016/09/21/dear-d-c-bars-please-put-on-the-nats-game-now/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it

Lol may as well include Baltimore in there too. Adam Jones is asking where the fans are
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: ice grillin you on October 20, 2016, 09:39:55 AM
Indians hosting game 1 same night as the cavs ring ceremony
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: ice grillin you on October 28, 2016, 12:02:56 AM
simmons asked this on his show this week

how long does a team have to go without winning a title until you can be a tortured franchise/fanbase
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: QB Eagles on October 28, 2016, 01:57:59 AM
It can't just be years, it's years x level of pain.

If you're a middling team for a lot of years, like the Sixers before the tank, that's the least painful mode (other than winning championships, obviously). That's just doing time. A good team that constantly comes up short (particularly teams that choke or blow up in other painful ways) and a team that stays horrifically bad for a while due to a comedy of errors (like the level of the Browns or the current Sixers) are much more painful. Sixers pain could easily end up being worth it, but if Embiid and Simmons are both busts this will be a legendary era of pain.

For a team that has endured some really painful moments, I think it can be as short as 20 years. For instance, I think there's some evidence that Cowboy fans are already feeling a little tortured.

If the team has been boring garbage most of the time, I think it's more like 30+ years. I wouldn't have considered the Saints tortured in 1990 even though their history was putrid, but by the time they won in 2009, that was a tortured fanbase, and not just because half of them drowned.

In the NFL it's hard to touch the Browns (who in addition to suffering a colossal number of horrific events since their heyday, lost their team for a while and saw the old franchise quickly win a SB) and the Bills (who lost 4 straight). Plus, they are both on playoff droughts longer than a decade. Eagles are in the next tier. When I talk to fans of the Vikings and Lions, I think their defeatist attitudes are kinda similar to ours even though the experiences of the 3 teams have been rather distinct. Jets and Chiefs aren't as bad, but modern fans never watched those Super Bowl wins and both teams have gone through some painful shtein. Falcons, Titans, Jags, Cards, and Chargers have like 100 real fans combined so who cares.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Cleveland Cavaliers)
Post by: PhillyPhreak54 on October 28, 2016, 07:27:40 PM
Spot on answer there.

And lol at "some of them drowned"
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Chicago Cubs)
Post by: ice grillin you on November 03, 2016, 09:21:42 AM
of the original 16 mlb teams the indians and phillies are now tied for the fewest chips with 2
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Chicago Cubs)
Post by: QB Eagles on November 03, 2016, 10:10:02 AM
Why is Winnipeg the one Canadian city on this list?

Seems clear to me that at this point the three cities deepest in sports hell are Buffalo, Minny, and DC. No one cares in SD, and once they are down to just the Padres they will start falling down the list anyway. Milwaukee is full of Packer and Blackhawk fans, and the next three down the list (Atlanta, Houston - sorry J, Phoenix) I consider bad pro sports cities to begin with. In those Sun Belt cities, most of the population moved from somewhere else anyway.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Chicago Cubs)
Post by: Rome on November 03, 2016, 10:49:37 AM
Quote from: QB Eagles on November 03, 2016, 10:10:02 AM
Houston - sorry J

Ha. 
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Chicago Cubs)
Post by: ice grillin you on November 03, 2016, 11:17:46 AM
i think qb should make a list of "sports suffering cities that matter"
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Chicago Cubs)
Post by: QB Eagles on November 03, 2016, 11:58:43 AM
1. Philadelphia
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Chicago Cubs)
Post by: smeags on November 03, 2016, 12:22:33 PM
Quote from: QB Eagles on November 03, 2016, 11:58:43 AM
1. Philadelphia

BOOM
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '16 Chicago Cubs)
Post by: ice grillin you on November 03, 2016, 02:12:31 PM
homers
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 New England Patriots)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 10, 2017, 09:34:29 AM
if the caps win tonight it will break one of the most amazing streaks in sports history.....DC has gone 66 seasons played without a team making even a final four of any sport
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 New England Patriots)
Post by: MDS on May 10, 2017, 10:14:07 AM
is that more amazing than philadelphia going over 20 seasons without a team winning a playoff round in any sport
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 New England Patriots)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 10, 2017, 10:19:54 AM
yes because the ovechkin era caps and the harper era nats are actually great teams who win the regular seasons of their leagues...to win a playoff series you gotta like make the playoffs

wash has both sides of it....they have two philly like teams in the football and basketball teams that are calamitous franchises and they have two top of their league franchises who choke in unbearable ways

66 seasons of not winning a title would put you at number 7 in all of sports....they have gone 66 without making a final four....thats impossible
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 New England Patriots)
Post by: phattymatty on May 10, 2017, 10:23:47 AM
luckily they won't win tonight.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 New England Patriots)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 10, 2017, 10:50:50 AM
Quote from: phattymatty on May 10, 2017, 10:23:47 AM
luckily they won't win tonight.

gotta hope not because the path to a cup after tonight is a joke
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 New England Patriots)
Post by: MDS on May 10, 2017, 11:20:32 AM
senators/oilers is happening

all time horrible ratings
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 New England Patriots)
Post by: QB Eagles on May 10, 2017, 12:24:32 PM
Canada hasn't lifted a cup in a quarter century. Ratings won't be a problem north of the border, anyway.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 New England Patriots)
Post by: MDS on May 10, 2017, 10:49:08 PM
hey at least the nats won
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 New England Patriots)
Post by: phattymatty on May 11, 2017, 10:07:33 AM
Quote from: QB Eagles on May 10, 2017, 12:24:32 PM
Canada hasn't lifted a cup in a quarter century. Ratings won't be a problem north of the border, anyway.

wow i had to go check because i the habs winning doesn't seem that long ago. crazy.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 New England Patriots)
Post by: Geowhizzer on May 11, 2017, 06:04:37 PM
Quote from: phattymatty on May 11, 2017, 10:07:33 AM
Quote from: QB Eagles on May 10, 2017, 12:24:32 PM
Canada hasn't lifted a cup in a quarter century. Ratings won't be a problem north of the border, anyway.

wow i had to go check because i the habs winning doesn't seem that long ago. crazy.

1993, wasn't it?  I was young and skinny back then.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 New England Patriots)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 16, 2017, 11:18:29 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_634o8UIAAPZAF.jpg:large)
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 New England Patriots)
Post by: ice grillin you on June 12, 2017, 12:20:12 PM
it would be too hard to investigate but i wonder how many four team cities have ever had a worse cumulative draft spot total than phillys 27 this year

someone do this for me
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 New England Patriots)
Post by: Rome on June 12, 2017, 01:47:57 PM
I wud but Ims 2 dern stupidz. 
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 Pittsburgh Penguins)
Post by: QB Eagles on June 12, 2017, 08:31:49 PM
I don't know about the draft thing but Philly has officially had one playoff team within the last three calendar years. That has to be up there with the absolute worst stretches a 4-team city has had.

When the NY Times looked at the saddest sports cities a couple years ago, they found that over the previous 50 years, 19% of Philadelphia sports seasons ended with a top 4 finish but no championship, and that Philly teams made the final 4 more often than any city other than Boston.

So we've transitioned from the blue balls era of Philly sports into the smashed balls era. It's definitely within the realm of possibility for all four teams to miss the playoffs in 2018 also.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: ice grillin you on October 13, 2017, 01:52:47 AM
since 1998 thirteen times a washington team has had a chance to make their leagues conference finals (not even championship finals)....they are 0-13
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: ice grillin you on October 31, 2017, 11:41:42 AM
flyers
since last postseason game - 555 days (1 year, 6 months, 7 days)
since last postseason series win - april 22, 2012

eagles
since last postseason game - 1396 days (3 years, 9 month, 27 days)
since last postseason game win - january 11, 2008

sixers
since last postseason game - 1984 days (5 years, 5 months, 5 days)
since last postseason series win - may 10, 2012

phillies
since last postseason game - 2216 days (6 years, 24 days)
since last postseason series win - october 10, 2010
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: Sgt PSN on October 31, 2017, 12:09:49 PM
arrested development
last good album - march 24, 1992 (3 years, 5 months and 2 days)
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 Houston Astros)
Post by: ice grillin you on November 02, 2017, 09:11:53 AM
years before first world series

55 years - astros
63 years - orioles
77 years - your philadelphia phillies
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: MDS on November 02, 2017, 09:16:59 AM
the 77 is if you count from the first actual world series (1903). if you count from the start of the franchise (1883) its 97 farging years.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: ice grillin you on November 02, 2017, 09:49:45 AM
well you cant win a world series if there wasnt a world series
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: MDS on November 02, 2017, 09:59:23 AM
so then its 54 years for the astros because they couldnt win a world series in 1994
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: ice grillin you on November 02, 2017, 10:02:07 AM
54 world series....but 55 years
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: Sgt PSN on November 02, 2017, 10:14:08 AM
Lil guy is having a hard time figuring out how time works today.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: Eagles_Legendz on February 05, 2018, 10:30:36 AM
 :paranoid
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: QB Eagles on February 05, 2018, 11:58:37 PM
It's now been six years since any of NY, Dallas, or Washington won a championship in any major North American sport.

Been a little over 24 hours for their NFC East rival.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '17 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: hbionic on February 06, 2018, 12:16:49 AM
 :-D
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: QB Eagles on February 21, 2018, 11:21:00 AM
Thanks for the update.

If nothing happens, Minny takes over the suffering crown in 2024. This Vikings window might decide it.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: ice grillin you on February 21, 2018, 12:11:14 PM
up to 12-0-1 since the super bowl
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: MDS on February 21, 2018, 12:17:16 PM
kind of amazing that the legit sports city most in need of a title is ny
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: ice grillin you on February 21, 2018, 12:33:27 PM
i would say its detroit....ny is higher on the list because they have a billion teams but its been longer in detroit and they have nothing else
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: QB Eagles on February 21, 2018, 12:33:39 PM
Quote from: MDS on February 21, 2018, 12:17:16 PM
kind of amazing that the legit sports city most in need of a title is ny

Problem with this list is there's not actually anyone who roots for all the NY teams. If you're a typical Giants/Yanks fan, you're doing just fine. If you root for all the little brother teams, you're in a worse sports hell than Philly pre 2008.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: MDS on February 21, 2018, 05:21:27 PM
ive always been partial to buffalo after the 4 super bowl losses but their fan base is a bunch of maga bros and they can all just die

minnesota is the biggest 4 for 4 place needing a title but after their crybaby act their fans pulled last month, they too can die

detroit is fair. at least its a real, 4 for 4 city.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: ice grillin you on February 21, 2018, 07:37:16 PM
bills fans get so overrated because of that stupid bills mafia shtein....meanwhile they have closed off their upper deck many times....and even when they dont there are full empty sections for games....i know they havent been great but there is a reason they almost moved to canada on a couple of different occasions
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: QB Eagles on February 21, 2018, 08:36:03 PM
It's a top tier tailgate situation but every other aspect of the franchise is mediocre to sad. At least you can say it's an NFL football town though. It would mean way more than Arizona or Atlanta being champs.

Detroit is the most legitimate 4 for 4 team near the top, but ten years since a legendary hockey franchise won isn't suffering unless you don't care about hockey (in which case you aren't a 4/4 anyway).

I lived up there when the Pistons won their last one. People are suffering up there but not because of sports.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: Rome on February 22, 2018, 06:54:26 AM
The Buffalo fans I'm friends with are every bit as loyal and passionate as we are.  And I know more Trump loving Eagles fans than Bills fans.  Just sayin...
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: SD on February 22, 2018, 09:01:59 AM
Quote from: Rome on February 22, 2018, 06:54:26 AM
The Buffalo fans I'm friends with are every bit as loyal and passionate as we are.  And I know more Trump loving Eagles fans than Bills fans.  Just sayin...

Served with a bunch of Buffalo fans, they're not nearly as passionate. After the draft I asked them what they thought of JP Losman, their response was "who?". I know those few are not representative of every Bills fan but can you imagine one Eagles fan who doesn't know who their 1st round pick is much less if it was a QB.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: phattymatty on February 22, 2018, 09:38:14 AM
Quote from: AO1 on February 22, 2018, 09:01:59 AM
but can you imagine one Eagles fan who doesn't know who their 1st round pick is much less if it was a QB.

I've met several over the last two weeks.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: SD on February 22, 2018, 09:46:51 AM
Quote from: phattymatty on February 22, 2018, 09:38:14 AM
Quote from: AO1 on February 22, 2018, 09:01:59 AM
but can you imagine one Eagles fan who doesn't know who their 1st round pick is much less if it was a QB.

I've met several over the last two weeks.

The bandwagon is full after a SB. Catch an average fan during the offseason.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: Rome on February 22, 2018, 10:03:46 AM
These are guys I've known for 25 years.  They watch every game every week same as us.  There's plenty of shirt tail fans out there on every side. 
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: Geowhizzer on February 22, 2018, 10:14:08 AM
Quote from: ice grillin you on January 28, 2006, 11:58:55 AM
Seasons: City (Last Champion) [leagues]
0: Philadelphia ('18 Eagles) [ALL]

Let's refocus:  This is still a beautiful, beautiful thing.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: ice grillin you on February 22, 2018, 10:21:29 AM
again bills have not opened concession stands in the upper deck before because they didnt get enough people there

im sure they have some die hards here and there but its more like a hockey fanbase where they have diehards but its a small fanbase....dont ever speak them and eagle fans in the same breath again its insulting

Quote from: phattymatty on February 22, 2018, 09:38:14 AM
Quote from: AO1 on February 22, 2018, 09:01:59 AM
but can you imagine one Eagles fan who doesn't know who their 1st round pick is much less if it was a QB.

I've met several over the last two weeks.

they definitely arent eagle fans
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: Rome on February 22, 2018, 11:00:35 AM
It's insulting to you because you have an extremely narrow & binary world view.  These are people who have never won anything ever.  They're cold weather, lower and middle class, blue collar fans who live and die with their teams.  Are they hokey, borderline Canadians?   Of course they are.  But give me 20 of them to hang out with over any other fan base except ours.  That's from personal experience too, not something you've seen on the internet or on television, Havas. 
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: ice grillin you on February 22, 2018, 11:21:43 AM
perhaps you hang out with the wrong people?

ive been to buffalo/western ny at least 5 times...including about six months ago...its trump country garbage at some of the highest levels...signs were still everywhere

hillary barely got 50% in erie county which includes the city of buffalo where trump should have gotten trounced...go even 500 feet outside of the city and its deplorables

i dont even care about that anyway...i wont ever be living there just dont compare their podunk half assed fanbase to the greatness that is the birds

thanks

Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: QB Eagles on February 22, 2018, 04:10:40 PM
Quote from: Geowhizzer on February 22, 2018, 10:14:08 AM
Quote from: ice grillin you on January 28, 2006, 11:58:55 AM
Seasons: City (Last Champion) [leagues]
0: Philadelphia ('18 Eagles) [ALL]

Let's refocus:  This is still a beautiful, beautiful thing.

Add in the fact that immediately before this Birds season, we were in one of the most unsuccessful sports eras in Philly history. Now the Birds are champs and the Sixers and Flyers are gunning for the playoffs.

Still hard to comprehend that the Eagles are champions, they did so in spectacular fashion, and nearly everyone in the country with a pulse was rooting for them to win. We will never suffer less than we are right now.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: General_Failure on February 22, 2018, 04:11:50 PM
Obviously, this is an alternate timeline and we won't remember any of it when the continuum sorts itself out.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: QB Eagles on February 22, 2018, 04:14:50 PM
Quote from: General_Failure on February 22, 2018, 04:11:50 PM
Obviously, this is an alternate timeline and we won't remember any of it when the continuum sorts itself out.

It was a Tide ad the whole time.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: Don Ho on February 22, 2018, 06:54:18 PM
 :-D :-D :-D
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: Munson on February 22, 2018, 09:08:13 PM
Quote from: QB Eagles on February 22, 2018, 04:14:50 PM
Quote from: General_Failure on February 22, 2018, 04:11:50 PM
Obviously, this is an alternate timeline and we won't remember any of it when the continuum sorts itself out.

It was a Tide ad the whole time.

(https://media.giphy.com/media/l1KcRlOCAMa5A7jnW/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 24, 2018, 09:05:31 AM
if the caps win that makes minneapolis the most sports suffering four team city
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: Rome on May 24, 2018, 10:16:16 AM
Go Vegas times a bazillionty. 
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: phattymatty on May 24, 2018, 10:49:50 AM
Caps in the finals is my nightmare.  Go vegas.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: MDS on May 24, 2018, 01:33:16 PM
dont care at all but now rooting for the caps as it will bring pain to you phonies
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: hbionic on May 24, 2018, 01:47:32 PM
As far as professional expansion team requirements go...are stupid names a requisite?

New Orleans- Pelicans
Las Vegas- Golden Knights

Seems like they get dumber and dumber as they expand.

Go Eagles! Go Lakers!
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 24, 2018, 02:00:18 PM
does la even have any lakes?
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: QB Eagles on May 24, 2018, 02:04:09 PM
I'm just glad they got away from the trend of using concepts (Heat, Magic, Wild, etc.) instead of plural animals or people.

Nothing will ever be worse than MLS names nonsensically copying Euro team names, like Real Salt Lake and DC United.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: hbionic on May 24, 2018, 02:05:27 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on May 24, 2018, 02:00:18 PM
does la even have any lakes?

Yes. The lakes are equidistant from downtown as Bald Eagles are from center city in Philly.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: ice grillin you on May 24, 2018, 02:11:34 PM
nope....theres eagles at the zoo

and in fact theres a lake at the zoo called 'bird lake'

BOOM
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: hbionic on May 24, 2018, 07:32:46 PM
lmao  :-D
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: Rome on May 24, 2018, 07:51:44 PM
Real talk?
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: smeags on May 25, 2018, 02:32:43 PM
Penguins.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: QB Eagles on May 25, 2018, 03:08:52 PM
There are more penguins in Pittsburgh than jazz in Utah.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: ice grillin you on June 08, 2018, 06:35:56 AM
waiting for golden state to update the whole list but that stomach churning win by the caps moves the flyers into the top 5 stanley cup droughts
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: ice grillin you on June 08, 2018, 09:47:17 AM
since the flyers won the cup they have gone 0-6 in cup finals

the other four teams in the top 5 have gone a combined 0-4

i dont know if that is good or bad
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: QB Eagles on June 08, 2018, 09:54:00 AM
Clearly it's worse to be the Maple Leafs, who have more fans who actually care than any other team, haven't been to the Finals since the 60s, and haven't even won a playoff series in over a decade.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: MDS on June 08, 2018, 01:11:37 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on June 08, 2018, 06:35:56 AM
waiting for golden state

i dont think you need to wait
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Philadelphia Eagles)
Post by: QB Eagles on June 09, 2018, 05:47:09 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on January 28, 2006, 11:58:55 AM
0: Philadelphia ('18 Eagles) [ALL]

Just quoting this while I still can. Might be a while before I see it again.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: ice grillin you on July 06, 2018, 01:47:34 PM
https://www.phillyvoice.com/philadelphias-sports-teams-have-gone-worst-north-america-among-best/
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: QB Eagles on July 06, 2018, 05:32:10 PM
I don't expect Kempski to understand statistics (I barely expect him to know anything about sports), but the way he's averaging those together makes baseball meaningless. He also went from comparing the first few NBA and NHL games to entire seasons. I don't see him getting a job with Nate Silver anytime soon.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: General_Failure on July 06, 2018, 05:45:47 PM
Quote from: QB Eagles on July 06, 2018, 05:32:10 PM
I don't expect Kempski to understand statistics (I barely expect him to know anything about sports), but the way he's averaging those together makes baseball meaningless.

So he's doing it right, then?
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: ice grillin you on July 06, 2018, 11:00:22 PM
Quote from: QB Eagles on July 06, 2018, 05:32:10 PM
I don't expect Kempski to understand statistics (I barely expect him to know anything about sports), but the way he's averaging those together makes baseball meaningless. He also went from comparing the first few NBA and NHL games to entire seasons. I don't see him getting a job with Nate Silver anytime soon.

hes click bait not a nerd
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: ice grillin you on July 19, 2018, 09:54:19 AM
today marks 2,356 days since new yorks last title which is their longest championship drought ever

fyi - mets, jets, isles is 11,588 days and an amazing 114 combined seasons played
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: Rome on July 19, 2018, 11:37:09 AM
They have 75 teams playing.  farg New York. 
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Golden State Warriors)
Post by: ice grillin you on November 24, 2018, 08:58:17 PM
past week

eagles saints
flyers toronto
villanova furman
sixers cavs
the joe william and mary

Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '18 Boston Red Sox)
Post by: QB Eagles on April 26, 2019, 12:11:56 AM
One of the craziest streaks in sports when you really think about it.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nhl/2019/04/23/canadas-stanley-cup-drought-reaches-26-years/39386929/
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '19 Washington Nationals)
Post by: QB Eagles on February 15, 2022, 11:48:05 AM
2013 Kings
2020 Dodgers
2020 Lakers
2021 Rams

still does not exceed

2004 Patriots
2007 Celtics
2008 Red Sox
2010 Bruins

but the Kings have some time. You could count the Ducks too.
Title: Re: Sports Suffering Cities (updated thru '19 Washington Nationals)
Post by: Don Ho on February 15, 2022, 07:11:31 PM
Not even close.  I'll give Rams their props (although Bengals should have sent that to OT and who knows).  Lakers and Dodgers won abbreviated seasons played in bubbles. 

Boston's run on titles from 2001 - 2018 is mind boggling.