Miserable Sports Cities

So I just read a recent article published on Forbes.com and they listed the 10 Most Miserable Sports Cities. Basically what they did was looked at the cities that have cumulative 75 years of Basketball, Baseball, Hockey, and of course Pigskin. With that being said, the researchers ranked the cities by there teams' records in championship games or series, semifinal games or series, number of pre-semifinal losses, total championships, and amount of years since city's last championship.

According to this article the derrty derrty, Hotlanta is the number one worst city in America's professional sports considering the stats. Thank God for Magic City. Where else would players from the Hawks or Falcons go after a disappointing loss? Home to there wives? Dog pound, maybe? At any rate the stats are as follows: ATL teams are 1-5 in championship games/series, 6-9 semifinals, total season to championship ratio is 142:1, and have a drought of 13 years since the city last seen a title. "Welcome to Atlanta where the players play..." apparently not!

A roasting of hottest city in the south, (pun intended) would be perfect if my closest of friends, or any one person in my Fave5 were from Atlanta. BUT! since they are not, and I myself am from Philly as most of my loved ones are, I can't let Philly slide seeing as they made the Top 10 of the most miserable sports cities according to Forbes.com.

The city of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection, my home town, ranks 9th on this list.  My city has some of the most dedicated fans which is ironic given the circumstances. Philly teams are 14-18 in championship games/series, 32-21 in semifinal games/series, total season to early playoff round loss ratio of 338:73, have a total season to championship ratio of 338:14, and have a 25-yr championship drought. The most championships any one team in Philly has seen is 5 by the A's who now swing for the fences in Oakland and they left Philly in 1955. Since 1980 the four teams we salute now share a 1-10 championship record.

Other cities that made the Top 10 are Seattle (poor Durant) getting the silver medal, Buffalo gets the bronze (no kidding!?!?), Phoenix at 4th, San Diego at 5th, Houston 6th, Denver 7th, Cleveland 8th, and the twin cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul at 10th. What there is to gain from this is, winning seasons mean nothing without championships. Of these miserable cities I'm going on record to say that Philly will be the next city to bring home the hardware and that is an utterly biased opinion. But for the sake of this being my blog excluding Philly, with King James at the throne Cleveland will be the next city to bring a championship home...but that's just What JLB Thinks