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solojones
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2/4 6:21pm
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RE: I Hate Boston Sports (And So Can You!) [lol @ the Patriots]
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Hey AJ? Try being from Kansas City. The Chiefs haven't even been in a Super Bowl since 1969. And sure the Royals won the World Series in 1985, but it's their only title ever and they've been completely abysmal ever since.
Not to mention we don't even have Hockey or NBA teams anymore because they just get taken away entirely to other cities.
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Darth_wanderguard
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2/4 6:34pm
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*Is a Saints fan*
If you want to talk about championships...
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Date Posted:
2/4 6:38pm
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If you want to talk about heartbreak, try being a Suns fan. The Diamondbacks' win in 2001 somewhat salved past losses, but the most wanted championship here has long been an NBA title. I can go into extreme detail about specific heartbreaks suffered by Suns fans. One national columnist for Yahoo wrote about it a couple years ago, and that was before the most recent Suns heartbreaks.
You can throw in the 1997 Rose Bowl too.
1968: lost coin flip
1970: Lost 3 games to 1 lead over Wilt's Lakers
1976: Lost Game 5 of NBA finals under highly controversial circumstances that are mostly forgotten (referee looked right past Paul Silas trying to call a timeout Boston didn't have with time running out in regulation)
1979: Lost heartbreaking Games 6 and 7 to the Sonics, denying them the Western Conference title, and in all probability, the NBA title (the Bullets had injury problems)
1981: Lost to the Kings in the first round 3-2 after winning 57 games during the season.
1990: Lost WCF 4-2 to Blazers, crushing Portland in two wins, but losing by about four points combined in three of the four losses (and not much more in the other).
1993: Paxson
1994: Rockets
1995: Mario Elie
2005: Joe Johnson fractures orbital bone in WC semifinal, gone for the rest of series and didn't return until too late against Spurs, who he did well against in two games
2065: All kinds of injury problems (Stoudemire, Bell, etc.), but they made it to the WCF, where they lost to Dallas in six.
2007: Robert Horry.
All I really want is a Suns championship. And it's been denied time and again, often in heartbreaking fashion. The Suns were the only pro game in town here until 1988, and along with Arizona State, the only game in town before that of any kind, other than high school sports.
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Armenian_Jedi
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2/4 6:40pm
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solojones posted:
Hey AJ? Try being from Kansas City. The Chiefs haven't even been in a Super Bowl since 1969. And sure the Royals won the World Series in 1985, but it's their only title ever and they've been completely abysmal ever since.
Not to mention we don't even have Hockey or NBA teams anymore because they just get taken away entirely to other cities.
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The Cardinals were one of the original NFL franchises. That's going all the way back to 1920. They've played 7 total playoff games in that span and are 2-5 in those games.
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solojones
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Date Posted:
2/4 7:47pm
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But they've only been in Arizona since 1988. So you can hardly make the point about Arizona in relation to them. Plus, given their eternal record, I'm not sure why anyone would ever have hope for them 
To me, it's been worse to have disappointments when there was hope. Let's not forget, the Chiefs were the flagship AFL team back when Lamar Hunt began the Superbowl.
Josh, I can't argue with you about the Suns. For one because I know almost nothing about NBA history, but also because I know you personally have good reasons to be heartbroken about those.
...I love that in rebelling against the Boston dynasties, we're also arguing over whose town has the worst teams 
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Armenian_Jedi
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2/4 8:00pm
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I wasn't really talking about Arizona with the Cardinals... just bringing them up as the absolute worst sports franchise of all time.
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solojones
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2/4 8:05pm
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Ok, well that makes sense
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DarthTunick
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Date Posted:
2/4 8:16pm
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As much as there seems to be "legit" gripes about the woes of Arizona sports fans, why does it seem to me that there will always be an excuse in the Steve Nash era Suns if they don't win it all?
EDIT: For example, when the Lakers lost the '04 Finals, despite all that went on during that season, do the Lakers/or their fans blame them? No. Detroit gets the credit because they cleaned their clock in that series. Same with the '03 Western Conference Semi's (Horry misses a potential game winning 3 (during game 5), but the Lakers lose anyway at home, in game 6), and with the recent Dodger postseason woes (both in the NLDS, in '04 & '06).
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2/4 8:50pm
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I have a weird relationship with Boston sports: I love the Red Sox, I'm neutral towards the Celtics, I frequently forget that the Bruins exist, I root for BC, and I despise the Patriots. All of those feelings are completely and utterly natural, believe it or not.
Baseball is far and away my favorite sport, and because I was living there at the time, I fell in love with the BoSox as a little guy. I disliked basketball during the crucial childhood years, so although it's grown on me, I can't put my heart into liking the Celtics. Although I enjoy hockey, I haven't followed it since the lockout, and the whole obscure TV channel bit certainly hasn't helped. I support BC because I'm both a Catholic and a Bostonian. I hate the Patriots because my father, a Northern Californian, grew up a passionate Raiders fan and the Raiders got screwed over by that blasted sham of a tuck rule. (That still gives me fits. Let's move on.)
Just a ramble, but it is rather absurd, isn't it.
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yankee8255
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2/5 12:13am
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Juliet316 posted:
May as well hand Belicheat the trophy now because there is now ****** way the Giants are going to beat the Patriots.
I'm going to ask my boss if I can work Feb. 3 because I now have 0 interest in watching the Super Bowl and I suspect now a lot of people don't either.
This will be the lowest rated Super Crap in history mark my words.
I am leaving the arena until either the next head coach of the Redskins is announced or the NFL Draft, which ever ********* comes first.
Congratulations to Juliet for perhaps the most absolutely, completely and utterly WRONG post in the history of the JCC.
Giants' staggering win over Patriots watched by record 97.5 million
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TomPryce
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2/5 2:15pm
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I think Philly has had it the worst. Sure, all of the teams have made it to their championships in the last 20 years, but if I remember right, the 76ers were pounded in 5 by the Lakers in 2000, the Phillies got beat in 6 games by the Blue Jays, and the Flyers were shut out against the Red Wings in 1997. In addition, the Eagles lost three strait NFC championship games before the won the fourth.
The Phillies won just one world series in 125 years; they also lost their 10,000th career game in 2007.
The Eagles have not won a Superbowl. They did win 3 NFL titles in its 75 years in existence with their last coming in 1960.
The Flyers have won two titles in their 40 years of existence, but they have not won a Stanley cup since 1975.
The 76ers franchise has existed since 1939, and they moved to Philadelphia in the early 60's. They won 3 titles in their existence; they won only two since moving to Philadelphia with the last coming in 1983.
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The only successful sports team in Philadelphia history was the Philadelphia Athletics, which moved to Kansas City in 1955 after winning 5 World Series titles. The A's would then move to Oakland in 1968 and win 4 titles since then.
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2/5 2:41pm
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Psh, try being a Lakers fan, guys. I mean, really. They haven't won a championship for like, what, five years? Geeeeez.
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DarthTunick
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2/5 5:13pm
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It's too damn of a long wait. 
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TomPryce posted:
I think Philly has had it the worst. Sure, all of the teams have made it to their championships in the last 20 years, but if I remember right, the 76ers were pounded in 5 by the Lakers in 2000, the Phillies got beat in 6 games by the Blue Jays, and the Flyers were shut out against the Red Wings in 1997. In addition, the Eagles lost three strait NFC championship games before the won the fourth.
The Phillies won just one world series in 125 years; they also lost their 10,000th career game in 2007.
The Eagles have not won a Superbowl. They did win 3 NFL titles in its 75 years in existence with their last coming in 1960.
The Flyers have won two titles in their 40 years of existence, but they have not won a Stanley cup since 1975.
The 76ers franchise has existed since 1939, and they moved to Philadelphia in the early 60's. They won 3 titles in their existence; they won only two since moving to Philadelphia with the last coming in 1983.
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The only successful sports team in Philadelphia history was the Philadelphia Athletics, which moved to Kansas City in 1955 after winning 5 World Series titles. The A's would then move to Oakland in 1968 and win 4 titles since then.
Philadelphia actually has the longest title drought of all cities with professional teams in all of the 4 major sports: football, baseball, basketball and hockey.
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MASTERPRENN posted:
Psh, try being a Lakers fan, guys. I mean, really. They haven't won a championship for like, what, five years? Geeeeez.
I feel that pain too.
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