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Most seasons without major championships

Yep, but people are still glad to mention it like it happened last year.

The Eagles were terrible that year and people were taking their frustration of a bad season and a miserable day out on a bad santa. It would have been a minor incident if Howard Cosell hadn't heard about it. Because of him, it made us seem like we picked on Jolly Old Saint Nicholas because we're terrible people.
 
Is the 100-season thing even accurate? It's 25 years, but weren't there some lockout years in there?
 
understandable. all of us cubs fans get lumped in with the idiots making death threats to steve bartman.
 
diefledermaus said:
here's my take on it. Let me preface this by saying that i am a chicago sports fan, except for the sox.

Last Championship for the 5 teams in the 4 majors sports:

Cubs--1908
White Sox--2005
Bears--1986
Bulls--1998
Blackhawks--1961

Cubs=100 yrs
WSox=3 yrs
Bears=22 yrs
Bulls=10 yrs
'Hawk=47 yrs
total=182 yrs.
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Um, I don't think that was what they were going for in the "consecutive season" sense. The article was saying that 100 seasons have passed since the last major team championship in Philadelphia, which was the '83 Sixers (technically 99, since there was no 04-05 hockey season, there was a '94 baseball season, but it had no champion). Going by what the article says, it has been 13 seasons since the city of Chicago won a major championship (05 White Sox), counting the not-yet-concluded '07-08 NHL season and the '07-08 NBA season, as the Blackhawks and the Bulls, respectively, have 0% chance of winning that seasons championships at this point, but not including the '08 MLB season, which the White Sox and Cubs are still playing and are not mathematically eliminated. For the "seasons without a championship per city", you count from the most recent city championship, and then you count from that point how many seasons have been played per team.
 
Wait, wait, wait...I don't understand. Philadelphia Phillies won the 1980 World Series. So how is it 100 years that Philadelphia didn't win a championship when it's only 28 years?

BTW I think the Twin Cities have suffered the most:

The last time their basketball team won a championship was in 1953-1954 when they were the Minneapolis Laker. The Timberwolves have never won a championship.

The Minnesota Vikings technically have never won the Super Bowl. They have some quasi-league championship.

The Minnesota North Stars/Wild have never won a championship.

Baseball, the Twins haven't won since 1991 (27 years ago)...

So 27 + uhhh...nevermind. It's bad though. Three out of the four haven't won a championship in over two decades.

How about Seattle? The Seahawks, the Mariners, and the SuperSonics?
 
TheBolianChef said:
Wait, wait, wait...I don't understand. Philadelphia Phillies won the 1980 World Series. So how is it 100 years that Philadelphia didn't win a championship when it's only 28 years?
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Because they're not talking about just the Phillies, but all Philadelphia teams. Each year is four seasons (strikes aside).
 
1991 might be the second longest (for cities with all four sports). Braves won in 1995, so this is the wrong thread to complain about that ;)
 
Sorry, I'm still bitter about Kent Hrbeck pulling Ron Gant off of firstbase and getting away with it.

Yeah, I know. :p
 
Yeah, well I'm bitter about Mitch Williams in 93 (everyone outside of Philadelphia would think of it as Joe Carter in 93). No one is happy about a loss (if, by some miracle, the Phils had won in 93, it would be Minnesota who would have the lead).
 
Hey, I know the Joe Carter pain. Remember, he did it to the Braves the year before. Bastard.
 
But with the Minneapolis/St. Paul region, there was a period where there was no hockey. I think the Wild came around 2000, the North Stars left in 1993. That is a 6 year gap with no hockey season in that region. So the math for Minneapolis/St. Paul would go 17(Vikings) + 17(Timberwolves) + 2(North Stars) + 6(Wild, taking into account the canceled season) + 15(Twins - current season ongoing and canceled postseason) = 57 seasons since the last championship for that city. Pretty bad, but not close to Philly (four-sport area wise). Cleveland I think has suffered through more consecutive non-championship seasons, even though they are only a 3-team (at one point a 4-team) area.

Also, looking at a similar article that SI posted, they did the list of metropolitan areas and their championshipless streaks during that area's "four-sport era", so they only counted Minneapolis/St. Paul when the Wild came into the NHL.

Also, I am trying to figure if an area has more than 1 team in a sport, if all those teams dont win the championship, does that count as 1 season, or as many seasons as there are teams that league in that area?
 
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When was the last time the Lakers won the NBA Finals?

I seem to recall that being somewhere in the '80s. Same with the Kings.

Last Dodgers World Series win was 1988

Neither the Rams or Raiders won before they moved.

And before you ask, Anaheim does not count - to far away.
 
Last time the Lakers won the NBA finals? They won in 2000, 2001, 2002 (Pacers, Sixers, Nets). Were you in a cave when the Lakers had Kobe and Shaq? ;)
 
The Kings never won the Cup, either. They made the Stanley Cup Finals in 1993, then Marty McSorley's stick happened.
 
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