Rules for Sports Heartbreak

[lollardfish]

1. Futility - Whatever the ultimate goal is, you can't have won it within recent memory, and preferably not at all, ever.
2. Competativeness - Your team must be pretty good. You must have had realistic shots at success. Otherwise, your team falls into the 'loveable losers' category.
3. Predictability - Just before failure hits your team, you've got to know it's coming. You've seen this before. You expect the worst. You know just how the collapse is going to go.
4. Repeatability - Your team needs to fail spectacularly again and again and again. One big collossal meltdown doesn't cut it.

Go Vikings.

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

1. I presume they lost a big game.

2. Since when is there pro football on Friday?

B

[mizzlaurajean.livejournal.com]

1. The Vikings lost to the Packers 34-31, on a field goal with two seconds left... I believe this means that the Packers win the division title over the Vikings, and at least one home game in the playoffs. I'm sure that supergee will do a much better job of writing about all of this on Monday or Tuesday...

2. Since there is no high school or college football to compete with, and since the NFL, like nature, abhors a vacuum in the TV schedule, and since Friday was a day most people were going to have off, the Vikings-Packers game was scheduled on Christmas Eve. I'm not sure that there's any day of the week that hasn't seen an NFL game...

davidschroth (hijacking laurafish's account)

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

It's the third time this year the Vikings have lost to a field goal at the end of the game by having absolutely no defense. It's utterly predictable. The Vikings, though, are really finding a way to be among the great heartbreakers of pro-football, and are one superbowl loss away from eternal woe.