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re: How Do You Stay Positive When You Teams Suck So Bad for So Long?
Posted on 5/22/13 at 7:34 am to kywildcatfanone
Posted on 5/22/13 at 7:34 am to kywildcatfanone
Schiano turned the mentality around and made Rutgers a local conversation piece. Just need to get over the hump and get into a BCS game. But... he made Rutgers a place where local NJ talent wanted to stay at home instead of the Big ten and ACC. Now tih RU getting into the Big ten we shall see. But.. basketball wise no reason they shouldn't be better with all the NJ talent.
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Posted on 5/22/13 at 7:34 am to Sophandros
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Hi. I'm a Tulane alum and fan.
Ha. Actually one of UK's worst moments was against Tulane. I think it was around 1980-82. UK was leading the game (in New Orleans) in the final seconds, and had two (one of them was a bad call) pass interference penalties called against them in the final seconds to move Tulane like 90 yards in 10 seconds or something and they ended up winning the game on a field goal.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 7:39 am to Sophandros
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Hi. I'm a Tulane alum and fan.
for 3 decades they did better than your pro team
Posted on 5/22/13 at 7:39 am to Sophandros
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It was 15 years ago and because of a corrupt system even then we weren't allowed into a major bowl game.
Do you honestly believe that Tulane deserved to get in a major Bowl game after that cream puff schedule. LSU was awful that year and probably would have been undefeated against that schedule.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 7:58 am to JabarkusRussell
After a while you quit being positive and jump on somebody else's bandwagon... I would know lol
Posted on 5/22/13 at 8:02 am to JabarkusRussell
As a Braves/Auburn/Falcons fan I can tell you there is always a end to the suffering (unless you are a Cubs fan)
Posted on 5/22/13 at 8:06 am to kywildcatfanone
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I'm a Kentucky football fan, no one has had it worse than me.
Cleveland sports fan here
Posted on 5/22/13 at 8:15 am to TreyAnastasio
Sports fandom is about pain.
But I grew up in Maryland in the 80s, so that's really the only lesson I could learn. The best thing to happen from 1984-1989 is that the Bullets consistently, and quietly, sucked. Everything else was pretty much the worst thing that ever happened.
It gives you good perspective later in life. Nothing can be worse than be a sports fan in Maryland in the 80s. Nothing.
But I grew up in Maryland in the 80s, so that's really the only lesson I could learn. The best thing to happen from 1984-1989 is that the Bullets consistently, and quietly, sucked. Everything else was pretty much the worst thing that ever happened.
It gives you good perspective later in life. Nothing can be worse than be a sports fan in Maryland in the 80s. Nothing.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 8:31 am to TigerintheNO
True. And they were good at a couple different times in my lifetime.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 8:32 am to Palm Beach Tiger
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Do you honestly believe that Tulane deserved to get in a major Bowl game after that cream puff schedule. LSU was awful that year and probably would have been undefeated against that schedule.
Teams, not schedules play games. Yes, Tulane deserved a major bowl game.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 8:32 am to UltimateHog
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Raiders have been the worst ran franchise for the last 10 years to make up for it.
This is very unfortunate too, I feel like the NFL is better when franchises like this are doing well.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 8:45 am to JabarkusRussell
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How Do You Stay Positive When You Teams Suck So Bad for So Long?
this is how you stay positive!
Posted on 5/22/13 at 9:05 am to Baloo
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Nothing can be worse than be a sports fan in Maryland in the 80s. Nothing.
How bout Cleveland for the last 50 years. Either the teams are the worst in the league or find a way to lose in the most painful way possible.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 9:09 am to TreyAnastasio
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How bout Cleveland for the last 50 years. Either the teams are the worst in the league or find a way to lose in the most painful way possible.
In the 90s, I always pulled for the Indians after the Astros were eliminated. Both of those WS losses hit me hard. 95 sucked because I fricking hate the Braves, and 97 needs no explanation. I can't imagine what it's like to follow them, the Browns and Cavs each year.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 9:15 am to TreyAnastasio
A few things:
1. Hopefully even if your team in one sport sucks, you make up for it with other teams. I follow college football (by far my biggest emotional investment), MLB, and NFL, so that helps a little. When rival Alabama won the BCS title in the 2009 season and it had been forever since Auburn won one a consensus National championship, it helped that a month late the Saints won the Super bowl. If you are a mariners fan are you also a Seahawks fan? They have had a lot of good seasons recently.
2. You try to remember that things that happen on a sports field are really not that important to your life. We get emotionally invested, but I consider the success (or lack thereof) of the teams I follow to be the most important unimportant thing in my life. Health, family, friends, food to eat, roof over your head, etc are a lot more important that what some strangers do in a game.
1. Hopefully even if your team in one sport sucks, you make up for it with other teams. I follow college football (by far my biggest emotional investment), MLB, and NFL, so that helps a little. When rival Alabama won the BCS title in the 2009 season and it had been forever since Auburn won one a consensus National championship, it helped that a month late the Saints won the Super bowl. If you are a mariners fan are you also a Seahawks fan? They have had a lot of good seasons recently.
2. You try to remember that things that happen on a sports field are really not that important to your life. We get emotionally invested, but I consider the success (or lack thereof) of the teams I follow to be the most important unimportant thing in my life. Health, family, friends, food to eat, roof over your head, etc are a lot more important that what some strangers do in a game.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 9:17 am to GumBro Jackson
LSU football has kept me sane. I was too young to remember the Skins last SB win. All I know is failure from Dc sports. Every Dc team has perfected the art of choking.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 9:18 am to JabarkusRussell
Drugs and sarcasm
Posted on 5/22/13 at 9:26 am to TreyAnastasio
Baltimore --- still worse. In a five year stretch...
- Len Bias died
- The Colts moved, triggered by John Elway refusing to play in Baltimore.
- The basketball was placed on probation
- The football team went from a consistent top 20 team to an ACC bottom dwellar
- The Bullets missed the playoffs every year
- The Orioles set a MLB record by starting a season 0-21
- The O's finally got good, and promptly made one of the worst trades in MLB history, trading away Harnisch, Finley, and Schilling for Glenn Davis
- The Caps lost a 4 OT Game 7, blowing a 3-1 lead. The Caps would blow two more 3-1 leads in the 80s, en route to an all time franchise record of 4-9 in Games 7, the worst of any franchise in any sport.
So.. that's major heartbreak in every sport in a roughly five year span. Cleveland can't win a title, but Ohio St was awesome in football. I do grant the Browns history is gut-wrenching. Nothing good happens to Cleveland either. But growing up in Maryland is like growing up in Cleveland only with a hockey team that was designed to gut you and a college that brought you nothing but misery.
- Len Bias died
- The Colts moved, triggered by John Elway refusing to play in Baltimore.
- The basketball was placed on probation
- The football team went from a consistent top 20 team to an ACC bottom dwellar
- The Bullets missed the playoffs every year
- The Orioles set a MLB record by starting a season 0-21
- The O's finally got good, and promptly made one of the worst trades in MLB history, trading away Harnisch, Finley, and Schilling for Glenn Davis
- The Caps lost a 4 OT Game 7, blowing a 3-1 lead. The Caps would blow two more 3-1 leads in the 80s, en route to an all time franchise record of 4-9 in Games 7, the worst of any franchise in any sport.
So.. that's major heartbreak in every sport in a roughly five year span. Cleveland can't win a title, but Ohio St was awesome in football. I do grant the Browns history is gut-wrenching. Nothing good happens to Cleveland either. But growing up in Maryland is like growing up in Cleveland only with a hockey team that was designed to gut you and a college that brought you nothing but misery.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 9:26 am to JabarkusRussell
LSU/Braves here, so while we don't always come through, we're usually pretty good
Posted on 5/22/13 at 9:26 am to GumBro Jackson
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Hopefully even if your team in one sport sucks, you make up for it with other teams.
Yep, thats why I laugh at Cubs fans, or Red Sox fans before the curse was broken.
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