After the Wild loss last night my buddy , a lifelong Minnesota sports fan posted this , their records in the playoffs since the Twins won the world series 31 years ago in 1991. 

In playoff series:

Twins: 1-9 (.100)
Wolves: 2-9 (.182)
Wild: 4-11 (.267) 
Vikings(games): 8-15 (.348)

That equals out to be 15 - 44 with a .224 win % in the playoffs for Minnesota sports teams in the last 30+ years. Zero titles obviously.  


They have to be up there with most tortured sports cities right now. 

Unless you count MLS, New York sports have been a disaster as of late. Most recent title win is from the New York Giants back in 2011. Considering you have 2 hockey teams, 2 basketball teams, 2 football teams and 2 baseball teams, that's a disaster.

May 13, 2022 16:42:03 GMT Blindy said:

Unless you count MLS, New York sports have been a disaster as of late. Most recent title win is from the New York Giants back in 2011. Considering you have 2 hockey teams, 2 basketball teams, 2 football teams and 2 baseball teams, that's a disaster.

Y’all have like 7 titles in the last 30 years at least. You don’t get to play your violin here Blindy.

May 13, 2022 16:52:02 GMT UT said:

May 13, 2022 16:42:03 GMT Blindy said:

Unless you count MLS, New York sports have been a disaster as of late. Most recent title win is from the New York Giants back in 2011. Considering you have 2 hockey teams, 2 basketball teams, 2 football teams and 2 baseball teams, that's a disaster.

Y’all have like 7 titles in the last 30 years at least. You don’t get to play your violin here Blindy .

I don't think I will ever see a title from the Jets or Knicks ever in my lifetime. Playoffs is considered a successful year. 

Cleveland the answer here, the Cavs title a couple of years of ago was first pro title since Browns pre Super Bowl

May 13, 2022 16:54:54 GMT Blindy said:

May 13, 2022 16:52:02 GMT UT said:

Y’all have like 7 titles in the last 30 years at least. You don’t get to play your violin here Blindy .

I don't think I will ever seen a title from the Jets or Knicks ever in my lifetime. Playoffs is considered a successful year. 

That’s fair as far as fanbases go. I’d put the Knicks and Jets up there. Not New York City though.

I thought the pool would be deeper but it’s clearly Minnesota.

May 13, 2022 16:56:49 GMT DanTheMan said:

Cleveland the answer here

No it’s not they just won a title 6 years ago. And the whole world knew it.

Plus the Indians and Cavs have had at least some semblance of post season success.

The Lebron Cavs won more playoff games than all four Minny teams combined .

May 13, 2022 16:56:49 GMT DanTheMan said:

Cleveland the answer here, the Cavs title a couple of years of ago was first pro title since Browns pre Super Bowl

Indians made the world series a couple of times in the past 25 years, just have not been able to win it all. Cavs save the day for this city. Blue Jackets and Browns have some work to do. 

I would have tossed Atlanta out there prior to the Braves title win. Between losing the Thrashers in hockey, the Hawks being pretty lousy until recent(Even then ECF is the best thing they had going for them) and the Falcons having some notorious chokes in the postseason. Braves had a mini dynasty in the 90s but it was tons of up and down years after until last season. 

Twins last world Series title 1991, Indians 1945
Vikings 4 super Bowls Browns 0

May 13, 2022 17:20:43 GMT DanTheMan said:

Twins last world Series title 1991, Indians 1945
Vikings 4 super Bowls Browns 0

They lost them all and again your just omitting the championship like it meant nothing.

Like I said and I will repeat. Lebron James in Cleveland has more playoffs than all four Minnesota Sports teams. It’s no contest. Cleveland is a shit answer.

Minnesota Lynx holding it DOWN. 4 WNBA titles, nasty. 4 titles won in 7 years, two other years were finals appearances. Mid 2010's was a great time to be a Lynx fan. 

WNBA means less than nothing. No offense to those ladies but no one cares.

The Lynx have more balls then KAT.

May 13, 2022 16:39:55 GMT UT said:

After the Wild loss last night my buddy , a lifelong Minnesota sports fan posted this , their records in the playoffs since the Twins won the world series 31 years ago in 1991. 

In playoff series:

Twins: 1-9 (.100)
Wolves: 2-9 (.182)
Wild: 4-11 (.267) 
Vikings(games): 8-15 (.348)

That equals out to be 15 - 44 with a .224 win % in the playoffs for Minnesota sports teams in the last 30+ years. Zero titles obviously.  


They have to be up there with most tortured sports cities right now. 

Minnesota sports are way off my radar so I was unaware of their lack of success. This seems like the correct answer for places with all four sports.

I don't think any city is close to Minnesota.

May 13, 2022 19:10:07 GMT Gyro LC said:

May 13, 2022 16:39:55 GMT UT said:

After the Wild loss last night my buddy , a lifelong Minnesota sports fan posted this , their records in the playoffs since the Twins won the world series 31 years ago in 1991. 

In playoff series:

Twins: 1-9 (.100)
Wolves: 2-9 (.182)
Wild: 4-11 (.267) 
Vikings(games): 8-15 (.348)

That equals out to be 15 - 44 with a .224 win % in the playoffs for Minnesota sports teams in the last 30+ years. Zero titles obviously.  


They have to be up there with most tortured sports cities right now. 

Minnesota sports are way off my radar so I was unaware of their lack of success. This seems like the correct answer for places with all four sports.

Yeah I live near the border on MN and worked there for years so I’ve heard plenty of talk about how miserable it is being a fan there. Kind of brushed it off knowing it was shitty but putting numbers to it gives a whole different perspective.

May 13, 2022 16:52:02 GMT UT said:

May 13, 2022 16:42:03 GMT Blindy said:

Unless you count MLS, New York sports have been a disaster as of late. Most recent title win is from the New York Giants back in 2011. Considering you have 2 hockey teams, 2 basketball teams, 2 football teams and 2 baseball teams, that's a disaster.

Y’all have like 7 titles in the last 30 years at least. You don’t get to play your violin here Blindy .

:lol:  This is the most New York thing ever. By my count NY has won 11 Big Four championships over the past 36 years. Though I will grudgingly admit life can be tough if you're a Mets/Jets fan rather than a Yankees/Giants fan.

UT did a great job making the case for Minnesota as the current "winner." Hard to argue. I'll throw in a few honorable mentions just for fun though...

San Diego
The Case For: Lost the Clippers in the 80s. Lost the Chargers a few years ago after 50 years of mediocrity (playoff droughts of 8, 9, and 13 years) mingled with heartbreaking playoff collapses. The Padres somehow managed to be even worse than the Chargers over the past half century. 

The Case Against: It's San Diego. Nobody there really cares much about sports. The mighty San Diego Sockers won the indoor soccer championship 8 out of 10 years.

Cincinnati
The Case For: The Bengals have been one of the most dismal franchises of the Super Bowl era. Had a 14 year playoff drought. Bust after bust in the draft. Didn't win a playoff game for over 30 years. Lost all 3 Super Bowls they appeared in. The Reds have defined mediocrity for much of my life. They're never even bad bad enough to generate headlines. They're usually bad in that boring 75-87 sort of way.

The Case Against: The Bengals seem to be on the upswing.....although we thought this before during the Palmer and Dalton years. The Reds did win the Series in 90. That's more recently than San Diego winning a major championship, which never happened.
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Cleveland- Would have won in a landslide if the Cavs didn't win the NBA Championship a few years ago. That automatically disqualifies them from the conversation. But let me explain just how bad things were for Cleveland sports fans...

The Indians last won the World Series in 1948. They had a 40 year(!) playoff drought lasting from 55-94. But they were really, really good in 54 & 95. We're talking record breaking levels here. Yet in true Cleveland fashion they choked both years in the World Series.

The Browns were a powerhouse in the 50s & 60s. Then they hit a long dry spell that continues to the present day. I personally feel like Cleveland claimed the title of Most Tortured Sports City In America after one of the Browns heartbreaking AFC Championship losses to the Broncos in the 80s. Pick one. It's up to you. I'll go with 87. So I have Cleveland down as the most tortured sports city from 1987 to 2016 when they beat the Warriors. Oh. It gets worse. Because I haven't even mentioned the beloved Browns ditching Cleveland for Baltimore in the mid 90s. And of course we all know the Nu Browns sucked even harder than the old Browns. They gave their fans false hope two years ago. We should have known better. Browns gonna Brown.

Which brings us to the Cavs. The Cavs had some solid teams when I began following sports in the 80s, but they were stuck in the same division as Jordan's Bulls, and could never get past them in the playoffs. Then they sucked for a long time until drafting local hero LeBron James. LeBron was The King who was going to finally take a Cleveland sports team to the promised land. He did take them to the Finals. They lost. Then it got worse because of course it did because this is Cleveland we're talking about. LeBron publicly ditched Cleveland in the most humiliating way possible! Good grief. Was Cleveland the butt monkey of American sports or what? I mean this city just took blow after blow for at least 30 years. LeBron eventually did come back and finally win the big one for Cleveland. The prophecy was fulfilled after all. But not before more heartbreak was inflected upon this sad sack city.

TL;DR: Minnesota is the current "winner" but I think they still have a long way to go before they catch 1980s-2016 Cleveland on the all time list.

P.S. Buffalo is another sneaky bad sports city with ZERO NFL or NHL championships over the past 50+ years.

The reason I mentioned New York is because they have so many teams and to have so little success as of late is terrible. The fact that excluding MLS, that the last pro title won by a city was 2011 is laughable. Add the College Basketball issues of St Johns and most of the local teams(Iona has been a tourney lock for a while though until this past year), no real college football presence(Unless you count New Jersey's Rutgers who have stunk lately or Upstate New York's Syracuse who also have stunk)

Not lumping NJ in but I guess outside of the recent St. Peter's cinderella run, not much comes from them as well. Devils? Nah not for a long time. Seton Hall and Rutgers have made tourneys but haven't gone deep in.

NY has seen some successes but Yanks haven't made the world series in 13 years(The METS MADE it more recent!?!?!), Rangers made the stanley cup title once in a loss to the LA Kings and the Jets haven't made the super bowl since 1969. Brooklyn/NJ Nets were last in a finals back in 2002, Knicks further back with the shortened 98-99 year. Islanders came close last year but were dropped by the Lightning on their way to another Stanley Cup win.

Buffalo.

Their NFL team goes 0-4 in straight Super Bowls, capped off with Wide Right. Then 20 years of mediocrity follows. They’re just now a contender again but the league is so stacked with talent these days they might never make it all the way.

The Sabres make the Stanley Cup finals and are heavy favourites, and lose on poor officiating and an illegal goal that should have been called back. They’ve sucked ever since and their ownership doesn’t seem to care at all.

…

I can’t say Toronto because of the Raptors, and I did witness back to back World Series wins (although it was a long time ago), and the Jays have been good here and there, but the Leafs are so far ahead of those teams fandom-wise that you kind of have to acknowledge them.

Think of it like if Green Bay had a basketball and baseball team. You’d root for them, but the Packers would still be the be all and end all. If you thought the Raptors parade was intense, you wouldn’t believe what a Stanley Cup parade would look like. It would make the Raptors parade look like a 6-year old’s birthday party.

Blindy after my post last night I realized NY has went a decade without winning a Big Four championship. That’s their longest drought in over a century. So it has been rough on younger fans. Older fans were still spoiled with a whopping 11 championship in 26 years though.

Buffalo is the first city that pops into my mind.

The Bills going to four straight Super Bowls and losing them all (the first on Norwood 's missed field goal), the Music City Miracle, and last season, the Chiefs tying it up with 13 seconds left, then winning in OT on the opening drive (some saying then we need to give both teams a possession no matter what, though the Bengals proved the Bills just needed to stop them).

The Sabres having many heart breaks in the playoffs, especially losing the 1999 Stanley Cup on Hull's goal in controversial fashion, and then getting knocked out of the 2007 Eastern Conference Finals after winning the President 's trophy.

They had an NBA team in the 1970s (the Braves). After a few playoff trips, the owner would swap franchises with the Celtics owner, who would then move the team to San Diego, becoming the Clippers, where the franchise keeps being cursed. Sterling's ownership being a shit show fiasco, with him moving the team to L.A., playing second fiddle to the Lakers. After multiple stretches of terrible seasons, the Clippers start doing better, and the Sterling's racism starts overshadowing it. The NBA banned Sterling, leading to a change in ownership to Steve Balmer. And while they could move forward, eventually signing Paul George and Kawhi Leonard, the team still can't get over the hump and get to the Finals.

It almost would make one wonder if playing his career mostly with the Bills would play a role O.J. Simpson's fall from grace. All that said, Buffalo does have great fans, and possibly the best fans in the NFL. To the Bills Mafia:

GET THE TABLES!

My answer is Toronto again.

May 15, 2022 6:16:46 GMT RT said:

My answer is Toronto again.

Fans even sucker punching their own in angst. 

Man the Maple Leafs are really something else.

May 15, 2022 13:00:29 GMT Blindy said:

May 15, 2022 6:16:46 GMT RT said:

My answer is Toronto again.

Fans even sucker punching their own in angst. 

RT needs to put his shirt back on.

HE STARTED IT

That is a helluva mullet and ass crack combo dude has going on too. :lol:

I’m 99% sure the guy that steps into view at the last second in the white Matthews jersey is my uncle. Not even joking.

-he was at the game
-same jersey, same hat
-he’s pudgy and old
-dude that was with him had a blue jersey on
-he posted on facebook that he saw the fight

May 14, 2022 13:17:49 GMT RT said:

Buffalo.

Their NFL team goes 0-4 in straight Super Bowls, capped off with Wide Right. Then 20 years of mediocrity follows. They’re just now a contender again but the league is so stacked with talent these days they might never make it all the way.

The Sabres make the Stanley Cup finals and are heavy favourites, and lose on poor officiating and an illegal goal that should have been called back. They’ve sucked ever since and their ownership doesn’t seem to care at all.

…

I can’t say Toronto because of the Raptors, and I did witness back to back World Series wins (although it was a long time ago), and the Jays have been good here and there, but the Leafs are so far ahead of those teams fandom-wise that you kind of have to acknowledge them.

Think of it like if Green Bay had a basketball and baseball team. You’d root for them, but the Packers would still be the be all and end all. If you thought the Raptors parade was intense, you wouldn’t believe what a Stanley Cup parade would look like. It would make the Raptors parade look like a 6-year old’s birthday party.

the Milwaukee bucks and brewers and basically Green Bay’s basketball and baseball team

Well hmm

Green Bay football is a world of its own.

Then as far as pros go it’s Bucks then Brewers with a fairly wide margin.

Overall with everything it’s

Packers

Badgers Football
Bucks


Brewers
Badgers Basketball

As far as the state goes we have two championships in the last 11 years.