Rules for Sports Heartbreak
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lollardfish1. 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.
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.
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Date: 2004-12-25 06:37 pm (UTC)There's a little email exchange in April where the authors opine about the nature of winning just one championship, and how it changes not only the views towards the future, but also your understanding of the significance of the past.
Take the Eagles - They have lost three straight NFC championship games. If they win this year, with this dominant team, those losses are just preparation, motivation, etc. If they lose again, though, those earlier losses are even worse.
I've liked the Vikings since I moved here, and especially since the loss to Atlanta in the 15-1 year. It was a good 'Red Sox' moment. The 42-0 destruction by the Giants 2 years later confirmed it. And now that the Red Sox have won ...
... I'm still a diehard red sox fan. I track every off-season move. I can't wait for opening day. I'd like to go to Spring Training. But there's room in my heart for the following teams (in order of importance)
1. Red Sox (World Champions, 2004)
2. Vikings (Heartbreakers!)
3. Buffolo Bills (Heartbreakers, but no good lately so there's no pain)
4. Celtics (World Champions many times over, lately sucky)
5. T-Wolves (On the rise. Jury still out)
6. Indiana University Basketball (NCAA champs many times over. In rebuilding phase)
7. Twins (World Champions 87(?) and 91. Lately stuck in a rut of competance without excellence, due to financial constraints).
If the Vikings played the Red Sox, I'd root for the Red Sox.