Theory regarding success of your favorite teams.

being a saints fan definitely helped the LSU baseball team in the 90s, then

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being a saints fan definitely helped the LSU baseball team in the 90s, then

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HAHA!!!

This theory came to me after I watched the SAINTS lose a heartbreaking game late in the season and then stayed at the bar drunk to hear the announcement that LSU was going to the SHIP!!

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angels - ALCS
LSU - #9 in the nation
saints - #1 in the NFL
LSU baseball - CWS champs
CSF baseball - post-season

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I haven't really analyzed the data so to speak



you don't say

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Possibly a point, but that depends on what you deem success. I want championships!! haha!

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UnluckyTiger

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Perhaps you moniker should be Unlucky WashFan.

Four years ago:

Astros - Really good
Lakers - Terrible
Packers - Terrible
LSU - Really good

Three years ago:

Astros - Decent
Lakers - Average
Packers - Average
LSU - Really good

Two years ago:

Astros - Not good
Lakers - Really good
Packers - Really good
LSU football - Champs

Last year:

Astros - Not good
Lakers - Champs
Packers - Bad
LSU football - Bad

2007 was the best year for me overall as a fan. Last year was rough overall, but the Lakers are probably slightly above Green Bay as my favorite pro sports team, and Kobe is my favorite professional athlete ever slightly above Brett, so I can't complain. For as long as I've been a fan, the Packers have been by far the most inconsistent team. There will be great years, mostly average years, and then terrible years.

2008
Yankees- bad
Saints- average
Hornets- meh, decent
LSU football- bad

2007
Yankees- decent
Saints- average
Hornets- good
LSU football- champions

2006
Yankees- decent
Saints- really good
Hornets- decent
LSU football- really good

2005
Yankees- decent
Saints- horrible
Hornets- decent
LSU football- really good

2004
Yankees- good
Saints- average
Hornets- bad
LSU football- average

2003
Yankees- really good
Saints- average
Hornets- bad
LSU football- champions

2002
Yankees- good
Saints- bad
LSU football- average at best

2001
Yankees- really really good
Saints- average
LSU football- good

2000
Yankees- champions
Saints- really good
Bonus- LSU baseball national champions

1998-1999
Yankees- champions

Top 5
Texas A&M Football
Houston Texans
Houston Rockets
LSU Football
USMNT (Soccer)

I am one unlucky motherfricker

The Flames are really good right now, but that's after some years of being truly awful.

The O's have sucked for so long I'm happy with just being below average.

The Ravens swing violently from good to bad.

LSU has been awesome after being terrible 15 years ago.

Thank God for LSU baseball.

Well, you do have a point. What is it? No titles in Cleveland since 1954? Only Seattle has a more brutal sports history.

Though I do believe growing up in Maryland from 1984-1996 was the worst time and place to be a sports fan:

-- The O’s go into the tank and have the 0-21 start in 1988. When they do finally get good in 1996, the Yankees rob us in the ALCS thanks to that friggin’ kid.
-- Len Bias and the subsequent Maryland basketball probation
-- The Colts move in 1984 and there is no NFL football until 1997
-- Maryland football goes from a regional power to one of the worst teams in the nation
-- The Bullets go through an era just as bad as the Clippers. Seriously.
-- The Caps routinely make the playoffs and are eliminated in the first round (even blowing a 3-1 series lead three different times). In 1993, they make the conference final, the first in franchise history. They are swept in 4 games. It is the highwater mark of any area team save the Redskins, who I hate because I was a Colts fan. Which makes their success painful.

Ahhh…. Memories.