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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jan 27, 2016 17:12:34 GMT -5
In the 90s with Dallas, more than satisfied. For the last twenty years, always disappointed.
With the Razorbacks, my guys are a second tier team in the SEC, so my goalposts/expectations are a little more tempered. If they win 9-10 games consistently, and occasionally challenge for a title I'm mostly happy. That said, there have been some BRUTAL disappointments. 1998 against Tennessee, 2007 SEC championship game against Florida, 2010 against Alabama, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2016 17:37:53 GMT -5
my main rooting interests are the Redskins and the Wizards.......
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Post by karl100589 on Jan 28, 2016 12:47:38 GMT -5
I'm a Newcastle United fan, should be easy to work out.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Jan 28, 2016 13:20:58 GMT -5
Pretty much the only sports team I actively follow/support are the Cubs. You tell me if I'm satisfied.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Jan 28, 2016 13:31:36 GMT -5
In between..
MLB: I have the Toronto Blue Jays and Washington Nationals as 1 & 2. This year was happy for the Blue Jays and disappointed by the Nationals NFL: I have the Carolina Panthers, you can kind of guess how I feel about them right now. NHL: I have the San Jose Sharks, it's been a long ride of disappointment with them NBA: Don't really follow it, but when I do...I have the Toronto Raptors and I am very happy about them consistently getting into the playoffs.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Jan 28, 2016 13:42:25 GMT -5
Football: As a Liverpool fan I could moan about disappointments in recent times but as Liverpool are the most successful English team ever, it's hard to moan about recent times without sounding entitled.
NBA: Phoenix are (I think) the team with the highest winning percentage without having ever won the Chanpionship. So, disappointed.
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Post by HMARK Center on Jan 31, 2016 20:52:39 GMT -5
A lot of it can depend on what it is you want out of your sports fandom. Everybody wants their team to win the big one, obviously, but one can be satisfied with simply getting to enjoy the sport they love, or with a team that may not win it all but is at least consistently competitive or well run.
On that front, I'm usually satisfied with baseball; even in years where the Mets aren't good, I love spending my summers watching the sport and enjoying its intricacies. Hockey largely does the same for me, though not on the same level; even if the Devils aren't good, I'll take some enjoyment out of games that involve some of the best teams. My favorite teams are my gateway into the sports, the prism I watch them through, but I enjoy them in and of themselves, anyway.
That said, my actual teams? Can't complain about Devils history, given how good they were for so many years up through the early 2010s. Even now, in a rebuilding year, they're surprising a lot of people and at least sticking around in the playoff race, so I have to acknowledge that, cripes, it could be WAY worse. The Mets spent a lot of years being intensely frustrating (though rarely as bad as the LOLMETS NYC media narrative often blows things up); I was just a baby during the mid-80s title and good season run, and since then they've been good and bad in fits and starts, blowing a bunch of money for a good run of 3 seasons, then having things fall apart and having to try again after 3 or 4 bad seasons. The Mets as of this moment are in as good a position as I've ever seen them in my life as a fan, so after watching a 4 year rebuild very closely, I'm very satisfied to see them nearing the top of the mountain.
I do have one area I'm dissatisfied, though: the NFL. I'm primarily a Giants fan (like the Jets, too, but Giants are first for me), and obviously the G-men have delivered two Super Bowl titles in the past decade, but my dissatisfaction has less to do with the Giants than it does with the entire league. Don't get me wrong: the Giants are basically the worst good team (best bad team?) of all time; outside of Super Bowl XXI, they've basically fallen into each of their other titles, and make up an entire team identity around taking stupid penalties, late season collapses, and just screwing up the basics that good teams are supposed to harness. Super Bowls XLII and XLVI, I'm convinced, basically happened by magic, to say nothing of "wide-right" at SB XXV.
But the league itself has really lost a lot of appeal to me, for an array of reasons, and the whole thing has left me feeling dissatisfied lately. Goodell's awfulness, the CTE scandal, the unending and unbearable hot takes on every single stupid story that comes out of the league from places like ESPN on down, how bloated and overdone it all feels, plus the fact that I have to work Sunday afternoons now...it's all added up, and I've gone from always looking forward to going out on Sundays with friends or whomever to catch the games at a local watering hole to kind of getting tired of the whole thing. I'm not totally gone yet, but this season saw my interest hitting a low I haven't been at since I was in high school and barely followed football at all.
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