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They are also the only franchise in all 4 major professional
sports to not have made a playoff/postseason appearance in 25 years.
You may already know who that ballclub is, but if so, the list from most to least is still interesting to read:
The hardest team to love
Although the author created this title, the Detroit Lions should be perhaps top 5, being that they are the longest (continuously) tenured NFL franchise representing one city, to never have played in a Superbowl, and the Tigers currently are doing their damnedest to try to become unloveable by their fans.
Of course the city of Cleveland can lay claim to having the longest pro-sports championship drought of any city in the US. It couldn't even support an NHL franchise for long, since their lone entrant, being the barons, lasted all of two seasons in the mid-70s. I just saw an ad on TV advertising OHIO as a tourist destination...lolololol!!. Unless you are into HOFs or amusement parks, the state mostly sucks!!
Kansas. Missouri, & Iowa are boring as hell too, unless you like the persistent stench of cow manure and cornfields. The other two midwestern "I" states, being Illinois and Indiana, are pretty featureless geographically, and all I can remember about them is passing through as quickly as possible to go somewhere else. I suppose Chicago and Indianapolis are cool to visit though I never have.
Perhaps the toughest team to (still) love is one that left your city (or state) for "greener" pastures, and there is no franchise as yet to replace it. So rabid fans of the former NBA Seattle Supersonics likely hold that honor. Especially since the franchise moved to OKC and were renamed the "Thunder" and have become perennial championship contenders (oooh..that must sting!!) Although the NBA franchise did bother to change their name, and unlike the former New Orleans and now Utah Jazz. What does "jazz" have to do with the state anyway? They should have used a name that was much more befitting, such as the Tumbleweeds, Anthrax, or Polygamists.
sports to not have made a playoff/postseason appearance in 25 years.
You may already know who that ballclub is, but if so, the list from most to least is still interesting to read:
The hardest team to love
Although the author created this title, the Detroit Lions should be perhaps top 5, being that they are the longest (continuously) tenured NFL franchise representing one city, to never have played in a Superbowl, and the Tigers currently are doing their damnedest to try to become unloveable by their fans.
Of course the city of Cleveland can lay claim to having the longest pro-sports championship drought of any city in the US. It couldn't even support an NHL franchise for long, since their lone entrant, being the barons, lasted all of two seasons in the mid-70s. I just saw an ad on TV advertising OHIO as a tourist destination...lolololol!!. Unless you are into HOFs or amusement parks, the state mostly sucks!!
Kansas. Missouri, & Iowa are boring as hell too, unless you like the persistent stench of cow manure and cornfields. The other two midwestern "I" states, being Illinois and Indiana, are pretty featureless geographically, and all I can remember about them is passing through as quickly as possible to go somewhere else. I suppose Chicago and Indianapolis are cool to visit though I never have.
Perhaps the toughest team to (still) love is one that left your city (or state) for "greener" pastures, and there is no franchise as yet to replace it. So rabid fans of the former NBA Seattle Supersonics likely hold that honor. Especially since the franchise moved to OKC and were renamed the "Thunder" and have become perennial championship contenders (oooh..that must sting!!) Although the NBA franchise did bother to change their name, and unlike the former New Orleans and now Utah Jazz. What does "jazz" have to do with the state anyway? They should have used a name that was much more befitting, such as the Tumbleweeds, Anthrax, or Polygamists.
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