Boston: MLB champ, NBA champ, NFL runner-up

Wow, that is right -- I forgot about that city, I thought for some reason the Indians won a World Series in the 1990's but now that I think about it Dave Justice ruined that didn't he?

 

Well, in theory, yes Justice killed the Indians with the homer in 95. But if you want to talk about somebody ruining the Indians' World Series clinching hopes, I think Jose Mesa takes the dubious honor for his gag job in the ninth inning of Game 7 in 97.

 

I'm a fan of all four Philly teams and you're 100 percent, absolutely correct. All have had chances to win a title and failed and at one time or another all four were quite terrible since the last title in the city (Sixers in 82-83 season; the 25th anniversery was recent.)

When will it end? Who knows? Hopefully sooner than later.

 

Pats didn't win the Super Bowl, dude ...

 

To some of us they did.

 

I know it is college, but Pitt was 11-1 and ranked seventh in the country back in 1979.

So you had the Steelers, Pirates and Pitt football all doing pretty well.

 

The Revs are the Buffalo Bills of MLS. They've lost in the finals in '02, and then three straight in '05, '06, '07. Funnny thing is, ask most of my fellow Bostonians and they can barely name one player, let alone how the team has done...this for a franchise that's been borderline dominant in its sport for going on 5-6 years. Guess that's (A) soccer, and (B) playing in the same town with the Pats, Sox, Celts and even the B's.

(Side note: sincere apologies for the cheesy fanboy name-drop, but since it's semi-on topic, I shot a video thing -- no, not Skinemax soft porn -- with Taylor Twellman of the Revs/US Nat'l team yesterday and he couldn't have been a cooler, funnier guy. Gave us a ton of time on short notice. Hope he gets an MLS ring one of these days.)

And, finally, Boston College also had a helluva season and the pride of a high first-round draft pick (Ryan).

 

You can add in a couple more seasons for the Barons' years of fail in the NHL, before they folded (the last team in the major sports to outright fold ... actually, they "merged" with the North Stars, and "unmerged" a decade and change later to become the San Jose Sharks, with the Gunds in control).

 

Don't forget in 1994, New York had the Cup-winning Rangers, the Knicks in the Finals, and the Yankees were leading the AL East by a bunch and were considered one of the top teams when the strike hit.

 

Yes, the delusional ones. Kind of like Raiders fans who still think of their 2001 team as the champions because they got robbed in the tuck rule game.

 

The Cowboys won one Super Bowl back when they were the only major pro team in DFW. Then the Rangers and Mavs brought Perpetual Fail to North Texas. The Cowboys, Rangers and Mavs ever win titles at the same time, I'll know that some sort of Star Trek-ish space/time anomaly has fucked the Earth and that we now live in Bizarro World.

 

The Miracle Mets, Joe Namath's Jets, and the Willis Reed Knicks all were in a short period of time.