Everybody loves a top ten list! I should know, starting next Tuesday (warning shameless plug coming) I'll be writing the first edition of our Tuesday Ten list. I can only hope my list is a little better than Malcolm McMillan's.
The writer for AskMen.com put together a top ten list of the "Ten Losingest Sports Cities." Which is a dumb list to begin with. For one, "losingest" isn't even a real world. Secondly, why put a list together just to rub salt in an open wound? But, like my grandma always said, "if you're going to poke someone, do it in the eye." So at least get the stupid thing right.
Looking at the bottom of the list it seems the Buffalo Bills can't catch a break today. How can a team that did what no other team in the history of any sport could, lose four championship games in a row, only be number ten? At least give the great fans of Buffalo some sort of accomplishment. But then again, if a city is really that bad, does not even putting it on a loser list justify the loser tag even more?
Moving up to number eight, he has Raleigh/Durh.....Raleigh/Charlotte? I've seen my beloved hometown paired with any number of cities; Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary, but this is a first. Raleigh and Charlotte are over three hours driving distance apart. It's like lumping together Orlando and Miami. Although I'm kinda hungry right now and Oriami sounds like an Asian dish I have to eat sometime.
Then at seven, we have the woeful Indianapolis Colts. Who haven't won a championship in almost two whole years. I don't care what you did in the past, getting over the hump and winning it all grants a city at least a five year window of immunity. The Boston Red Sox didn't win for nearly a century, but I don't see anyone lining up to call them losers now. Not to mention that Indy only has two pro teams, and Philadelphia, with four loser franchises didn't even make the cut.
The Sonic-less Seattelites can rest easy because their team didn't even make it to the top three despite no championships between three teams, and two instances of owners bolting the city. (Which should be bonus points towards the total) Sitting pretty at number four, they were bumped in favor of the number two team Nashville/ Memphis. Again with the clumping of cities in the same state. You know what the first thing that comes up when you type "memphis nashville" into Google? You get flights from Memphis to Nashville. That's a heck of a commute. And how do cities that have three past decade expansion teams even come close to making this list?
But the biggest turd in the bowl has to be New Orleans at number one. And what reason does McMillan give for their spot atop the list? The "'Aint's" reputation pre-Brees? The crappy, all be it along time ago, New Orleans Jazz? The evil George Shin led Hornets? Nope, he had this to say,
"When a city's crowning sports moment is winning a regular season football game after Hurricane Katrina, it's not a good sign. Sure that famous moment breathed life into a devastated city, but a championship never has,"
The Saints winning that game was an emotional achievement for the city and the country, but hardly a sports achievement. If you want sports accomplishment since Katrina, how about the Hornets having the best record in the NBA for most of last season, or the aforementioned Saints team going on to the NFC title game? Blaming the city for overcoming disaster and winning a game in a tattered Super Dome, which seems to be the crux of your argument, is just dirty pool mister. My grandma might have told me to poke them in the eye Malcolm, but you my friend have put on your steel-toed boot and kicked New Orleans square in the nuts.
Okay so the deal happened around late June, but today I witnessed my first ever Michael Strahan, the broadcaster, sighting. And let me tell you, he was PIMP. Wearing a retro black army style shirt with shoulder straps, which was buttoned down to reveal his manly chest, Strahan was displaying charisma and style. Doing a cameo for ESPN's Brett Favre-aploozza today, the former Giant showed why he's the next coming of Barkley.
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