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Ian Sane:
I agree. If your team won a championship recently enough that there are active players from that championship team still playing, then it is too soon to complain.

Of the remaining teams Vancouver, Boston, Washington and Philly have had the longest droughts, each exceeding 30 years (and Van and Wash have NEVER won). Although I want Vancouver to win, I have sympathy for the fanbases of those other teams. Everyone else has either won too recently or has not been around long enough.

Sorry, apdude, but the Sharks have not been around long enough for me to sympathize with them either. I still tend to think of the Sharks as a relatively new team and yet they're almost 20. ****, I feel old. The Preds seem like an expansion team to me and they're over 10 years old now!

30 years of drought seems like a good minimum before you start feeling sorry for a fanbase. It gives enough time for someone to grow to adulthood and even have kids of their own without ever seeing their team win a title.

NWR_insanolord:
No team I am a fan of in any sport has won a championship in my lifetime. I'm due.

apdude:

--- Quote from: Ian Sane on April 28, 2011, 01:32:55 PM ---
Sorry, apdude, but the Sharks have not been around long enough for me to sympathize with them either. I still tend to think of the Sharks as a relatively new team and yet they're almost 20. ****, I feel old.
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We may not be long suffering, but when the "Mighty Ducks" have already won one and we haven't it hurts.

Ian Sane:

--- Quote --- No team I am a fan of in any sport has won a championship in my lifetime. I'm due.
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So you either don't like baseball or your Philly loyalties don't extend to other sports.

If I only stuck with Pacific Northwest teams I could say the same but for baseball my team is the Toronto Blue Jays who did win back-to-back World Series in the early 90's. And that was quite a thrill. It really is super awesome when your team wins.

And the BC Lions have also won 4 Grey Cups in my lifetime but that's CFL. That's like MLS level and only a step above arena football and the WNBA.

Team Canada winning Olympic Gold Medals in hockey in 2002 and 2010 were both really exciting though. Both had something special to them to with 2002 being the first gold in 50 years and 2010 being in Vancouver. I don't know if the US winning Gold medals has the same effect for Americans. Canada is like a rinky-dink country in the grand scheme of things so Olympic Gold is a big deal to us.

Watching the Mighty Ducks win was pretty annoying. 2004-07 fucking sucked as Tampa Bay, Carolina and Anaheim all won. Each was like barely ten years old (if you discount Carolina's time as the Hartford Whalers, which makes sense since it would have been a different fanbase) in non-traditional hockey markets where I question how many dedicated fans actually care about them.

Carolina's is the worst because those idiots had missed the playoffs the previous two seasons and then would miss them again for the next two. They are the very definition of a fluke team. And the worst thing is that every three or years or so that they do make the playoffs they always go deep making it to at least the conference finals. They're the Florida Marlins of hockey, being completely irrelevant for years and years only to periodically pop up and break the hearts of another team's fans.

apdude:

--- Quote from: Ian Sane on April 28, 2011, 04:48:13 PM ---Watching the Mighty Ducks win was pretty annoying. 2004-07 fucking sucked as Tampa Bay, Carolina and Anaheim all won. Each was like barely ten years old (if you discount Carolina's time as the Hartford Whalers, which makes sense since it would have been a different fanbase) in non-traditional hockey markets where I question how many dedicated fans actually care about them.

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In the case of the Ducks, not much. I went to a game there. They didn't show up till the end of the first. The sharks took a 3-1 lead into the 2nd intermission, and most people left. It's more of a novelty than something people are actually interested in. It was pretty sad, but that's Southern California for you.

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