I'm getting so sick of sports

[retro]

Because my teams are always nothing better than mediocre. The Dolphins have sucked for the last like 15 years, the Cubs are well... they're the Cubs. The Bulldogs have been mediocre for most of the last 15 years. The only teams that's experienced much in the way of success have been the Spurs and the Coyotes. But I'm not a huge basketball fan, and the Coyotes have been knocked out of the playoffs in the first round the last two years.

It's just frustrating to root for these teams that pretty much never have an opportunity to even get close to a championship. Meanwhile you look at the fucking city of Boston that has something like 9 championships in the last 10 years. It'd just be nice to have one of my teams actually win something for once. Sure, I could go be a bandwagon fan somewhere, but what would be the point in that?

/rant

 

[redliner]

Go pats go !

 

[freakofnature]

At least you're not a Leafs fan.

 

[Kyle B]

go bills!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[skyblue]

you should try supporting my team if you think you have it bad

 

[Panacea]

I've been generally spoiled, my favorite teams and players win a lot, but...I'm sick of watching the Steelers in only 4 weeks :24: it's not easy being a fan of a team, even the best having losing seasons...I say if you like a doomed franchise it might be time to let go

 

[retro]

you should try supporting my team if you think you have it bad

I think I have you beat... the Cubs have been around for 140 years, founded in 1871. They're tied with the Atlanta (formerly Boston and Milwaukee) Braves for the oldest professional sports team in the United States; and have been around for longer than just about any professional sports team in the world. They've won a grand total of two World Series championships, with the most recent having come in 1907. Hell, we haven't even been to the World Series since 1945. If you want to hear about heartbreak, go read about our playoff runs in 1948, 1984, 1989, and 2003.

The Coyotes haven't made it out of the first round of the playoffs well... ever. But I've only been a fan of them for the last two years, so I can't count myself among the long-time miserable fans. The Dolphins have experienced more recent success than the the Cubs and more success overall than the Coyotes; having won the Super Bowl in '72 and '73 (both before I was born though). Since then, they've been to the Super Bowl in '82 and '84, and rarely making it out of the first round of the playoffs after that.

So yeah, I'm pretty sure that if you compared just the Cubs to any franchise in professional sports, you wouldn't find a more futile team to root for. Unfortunately for me, they're my team... I saw my first baseball games at Wrigley Field when I was a kid, and I couldn't imagine ever rooting for another team. I'm not a bandwagon fan by any stretch of the imagination, and support my teams in good and bad times, but it gets frustrating to do sometimes.

 

[Alien Allen]

I can relate

There was the Red Wings who for about a 20 year span really sucked

We had the Tigers who had a 10 year period of not winning half their games

We had the Lions who had a horrid 10 year stretch

Things turn around typically over time. Except for the Cubs. I think they are cursed. Same as were the Red Sox for a long time.

It takes an owner with the right mentality to get it done. I don't think you will see it change a lot as long as a Trust or a Newspaper owns it.

Unless they get lucky as the Lions appear to have. It is a shame Mark Cuban did not get the team. That would have been awesome for the Cubs and baseball.

 

[jassilem]

At least you're not a Leafs fan.

:24:... I could say something but... I will behave...

 

[BadBoy]

I can relate

There was the Red Wings who for about a 20 year span really sucked

We had the Tigers who had a 10 year period of not winning half their games

We had the Lions who had a horrid 10 year stretch

Things turn around typically over time. Except for the Cubs. I think they are cursed. Same as were the Red Sox for a long time.

It takes an owner with the right mentality to get it done. I don't think you will see it change a lot as long as a Trust or a Newspaper owns it.

Unless they get lucky as the Lions appear to have. It is a shame Mark Cuban did not get the team. That would have been awesome for the Cubs and baseball.

You forgot the Pistons who sucked forever leading up until the back to back 'ships in the late 80's. There was nothing lucky about what has happened to the Lions. They got rid of Millen and as soon as they did that, things have changed. Good drafts, good offseason pickups and a healthy Stafford. If he stays healthy, the only team standing in their way is the Packers, which at the moment, look invincible. But so did the Patriots a few years back...

retro, I feel your pain dude. I've been a Dolphins fan since 1983 and this is probably the most depressing season in recent times, including the '07 debacle. At least then we were depleted with injuries. Now we had the idiot Parcells come in and mess everything up, then leave and wash his hands of the recent mess. Ireland is an idiot and Sparano is not qualified to be a head coach, can't even handle picking the O-line, which is supposed to be his specialty. Good luck with unemployment dude.

The best we can hope for now is to SUCK FOR LUCK, hope for a regime change and hold out hope that in 3 years we will be competitive again. I'm just about done with them to be honest. We are the joke of the NFL right now. So much talent, yet 0 team work. Brandon Marshall? Learn how to catch dude, you're paid 10 million a year to do so. Can anyone block? Can anyone tackle? I thought these should be mastered by the pro level. Nope, not our team. Ugh!

 

[Alien Allen]

The Lions were teasers before Millen. They would look like they had a decent team but it was all a facade as once playoffs came they would always get beat. The owner is to blame as he does not know how to hire and fire people. He would get the wrong people and then held on too long before firing them. He got lucky because the people in charge now were with the Millen regime and the team for years. Nobody expected them to know how to turn it around. I am not complaining that they are doing well this year. But it may be smoke and mirrors. You don't get down by that many points and expect to win games. In the case of the last two weeks it was rancid coaching by their opponents that allowed them to win. No matter how bad the teams played the coaches blew it with poor decisions in the 2nd half.

 

[skyblue]

I think I have you beat... the Cubs have been around for 140 years, founded in 1871. They're tied with the Atlanta (formerly Boston and Milwaukee) Braves for the oldest professional sports team in the United States; and have been around for longer than just about any professional sports team in the world. They've won a grand total of two World Series championships, with the most recent having come in 1907. Hell, we haven't even been to the World Series since 1945. If you want to hear about heartbreak, go read about our playoff runs in 1948, 1984, 1989, and 2003.

The Coyotes haven't made it out of the first round of the playoffs well... ever. But I've only been a fan of them for the last two years, so I can't count myself among the long-time miserable fans. The Dolphins have experienced more recent success than the the Cubs and more success overall than the Coyotes; having won the Super Bowl in '72 and '73 (both before I was born though). Since then, they've been to the Super Bowl in '82 and '84, and rarely making it out of the first round of the playoffs after that.

So yeah, I'm pretty sure that if you compared just the Cubs to any franchise in professional sports, you wouldn't find a more futile team to root for. Unfortunately for me, they're my team... I saw my first baseball games at Wrigley Field when I was a kid, and I couldn't imagine ever rooting for another team. I'm not a bandwagon fan by any stretch of the imagination, and support my teams in good and bad times, but it gets frustrating to do sometimes.

ok,my team...coventry city....founded in 1883 and have spent about 30 years in the top division of english football,in those 128 years we've won one trophy,that was the F.A.Cup in 1987,at the moment we're floundering near the bottom of englands second tier of football,but you know what,i would never ever wear the colours of any other british football club,a football club is like a dog,its not just for christmas its for life.....and by life i mean till the day you die

 

[retro]

ok,my team...coventry city....founded in 1883 and have spent about 30 years in the top division of english football,in those 128 years we've won one trophy,that was the F.A.Cup in 1987,at the moment we're floundering near the bottom of englands second tier of football,but you know what,i would never ever wear the colours of any other british football club,a football club is like a dog,its not just for christmas its for life.....and by life i mean till the day you die

Okay, so you can almost understand. But at least you've had your team win a championship in your lifetime.

 

[retro]

retro, I feel your pain dude. I've been a Dolphins fan since 1983 and this is probably the most depressing season in recent times, including the '07 debacle. At least then we were depleted with injuries. Now we had the idiot Parcells come in and mess everything up, then leave and wash his hands of the recent mess. Ireland is an idiot and Sparano is not qualified to be a head coach, can't even handle picking the O-line, which is supposed to be his specialty. Good luck with unemployment dude.

The best we can hope for now is to SUCK FOR LUCK, hope for a regime change and hold out hope that in 3 years we will be competitive again. I'm just about done with them to be honest. We are the joke of the NFL right now. So much talent, yet 0 team work. Brandon Marshall? Learn how to catch dude, you're paid 10 million a year to do so. Can anyone block? Can anyone tackle? I thought these should be mastered by the pro level. Nope, not our team. Ugh!

I don't even think that Luck can save this franchise. I just wish we had been able to convince Harbaugh to come coach the team. Instead, we've got lame duck Sparano, who will probably be fired after the Jets game. At least we'll be in a position to hopefully get Luck, Landry Jones, or Matt Barkley... though any of those three could opt to stay in school for one more year. But we do desperately need what we haven't had since Marino... a franchise QB. The only bright spots of this team are Jake Long and the LBs as a whole. Our secondary is a complete mess, even though Davis and Smith both shows signs of a whole lot of talent. If we had a halfway decent QB, we'd probably win about 5 games this year, but Henne is flat out awful. Though I'm glad that we don't have a decent QB, because that'd just mean we'd have a middle tier draft pick. I just want us to win one game so we can avoid 0-16. I actually hope we win two come to think of it... both of the Jets games.

I don't know Ireland is awful as much as Parcells was horrible for the team and Sparano is a horrible coach. This is really Ireland's first year in charge of the team, and he had a pretty decent draft. I'm willing to give him another year to see what he can do. But Sparano has to go... we need Cowher, Gruden, or hell... the return of Jimmy Johnson.

 

[skyblue]

Okay, so you can almost understand. But at least you've had your team win a championship in your lifetime.

our cup win featured this goal:thumbup

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q5-ANGlhuM

 

[redliner]

I have watch the Pats since I remember. That was the only feed on CBS growing up. So I have never strayed from them. Each year there in the mix. When it comes to the NHL I was a major Habs fan. I followed them so close and went to Montreal acouple times a year to watch them. It got to the point that I could not stand watching them lose. So I said fack it. Threw all my Canadiens shit out. Starting following philly four years ago. Thank god they beat the habs acouple years ago in the playoffs. When it comes to baseball I don't follow much of the season but always go for the Red Soxs. Basketball is garbage.

 

[BadBoy]

I don't even think that Luck can save this franchise. I just wish we had been able to convince Harbaugh to come coach the team. Instead, we've got lame duck Sparano, who will probably be fired after the Jets game. At least we'll be in a position to hopefully get Luck, Landry Jones, or Matt Barkley... though any of those three could opt to stay in school for one more year. But we do desperately need what we haven't had since Marino... a franchise QB. The only bright spots of this team are Jake Long and the LBs as a whole. Our secondary is a complete mess, even though Davis and Smith both shows signs of a whole lot of talent. If we had a halfway decent QB, we'd probably win about 5 games this year, but Henne is flat out awful. Though I'm glad that we don't have a decent QB, because that'd just mean we'd have a middle tier draft pick. I just want us to win one game so we can avoid 0-16. I actually hope we win two come to think of it... both of the Jets games.

I don't know Ireland is awful as much as Parcells was horrible for the team and Sparano is a horrible coach. This is really Ireland's first year in charge of the team, and he had a pretty decent draft. I'm willing to give him another year to see what he can do. But Sparano has to go... we need Cowher, Gruden, or hell... the return of Jimmy Johnson.

Agreed. Any Dolphins fan thinking Luck would save the franchise is hoping for miracles. I just know he would be a good cog. It all starts with the QB, you build upon that position on offense. You don't add players that are supposed to help with weaknesses (aka, Marshall and Bush). Also, our defense is porous all over the place, especially at LB. Where are our middle linebackers? I don't even hear their name called on run plays anymore. No name RBs are rushing for 10 yards a carry. We can't stop a team on 3rd down and hey, if you just throw the ball down the field you will eat our safeties for lunch. Obviously, we can go on and on here, its just pathetic. We need a franchise QB and a franchise coach. The teams that all win consistently have this in common. I know we'll win at least one game, hell, we'll probably win 4 or 5 and have the 6th or 7th pick in the draft. Go team.

 

[pjbleek]

Because my teams are always nothing better than mediocre. The Dolphins have sucked for the last like 15 years, the Cubs are well... they're the Cubs. The Bulldogs have been mediocre for most of the last 15 years. The only teams that's experienced much in the way of success have been the Spurs and the Coyotes. But I'm not a huge basketball fan, and the Coyotes have been knocked out of the playoffs in the first round the last two years.

It's just frustrating to root for these teams that pretty much never have an opportunity to even get close to a championship. Meanwhile you look at the fucking city of Boston that has something like 9 championships in the last 10 years. It'd just be nice to have one of my teams actually win something for once. Sure, I could go be a bandwagon fan somewhere, but what would be the point in that?

/rant

Patriots last Super Bowl win was in 2005
Red Sox last championship was in 2007
Celtics last won in 2008
Bruins just this past year
I think our dry spell was for a long time as well and it seems to have creeped back into the sports talk radio shows. we live in a "what have you done for me lately" society and while you think it maybe the sports scene is tilted, its not. Super Bowl victories from the Saints, Packers, Colts, Pittsburgh, do make the league a better place, but teams like the Yankees, they deserve to lose!!! (Sorry, angry Red Sox fan) don't forget we too had an 86 year drought between championships too. and I think that even though Steve Bartman caught the foul ball that ruined the 2003 Cubs, he can't be blamed for all of that. I could tell you I still hate Aaron Boone for killing my 2003 Red Sox and Mookie Wilson and Bill Buckner for ruining 1986 for me...I can and do feel your pain man. It is a good thing when you win and when you are losing all the time or coming up short in championship games or series the sting hurts even more...so chin up my man and be glad you have a team to cheer for....

 

[Zorak]

It's all relative. What one teams classes as failure another would class as success.

 

[Panacea]

Super Bowl victories from the Saints, Packers, Colts, Pittsburgh, do make the league a better place

We have had some really great Super Bowl matchups in the past few years, very lucky