Rules for Sports Heartbreak
Dec. 25th, 2004 07:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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 10:51 pm (UTC)(sorry, can take the girl out of IL, but...)
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Date: 2004-12-26 05:16 am (UTC)See, for many years they were loveable losers - the dregs of the National League. If they won, you felt grand, but you didn't expect it. Recently, they have begun to turn this around and are on their way (that goat curse thing was all well and good, but it didn't have enough actual GAME self-destruction to add up).
But now they have been a pretty good team for awhile. They have some great pitching, hitting, and a Red Sox shortstop. You had a big lead in the 8th inning in Wrigley, and blew it (Bartman et al.). You're on your way! Now get to the Series and lose it terribly.