The Supersonics won an NBA championship...my home town of Buffalo has never won anything (Damn you, Brett Hull).

Congrats, Blackhawks!

ah, f*ck the hawks, im a bostonian

Last time I checked, that's an Oklahoma City team.

Don't even get me started ghug! I live in Buffalo! Have you ever seen a team as bad as the Buffalo Bills/Sabres? Bills- Won four straight conference championships and lost all four games in the Superbowl... Sabres-only made it to the Stanley Cup twice, losing both times... The Buffalo Bisons (AAA Baseball team) won one, maybe two, but they don't really matter too much... The Buffalo Bandits (Lacrosse) won one championship... Buffalo Braves (Basketball team, no longer in Buffalo...) never won anything...

Overall, you and I are pretty much in the same boat...

Yes! SacredDigits feels my pain!

You just listed positive achievements. Try being a Mariners fan.

Well I see where you're going, but I'm sure your city has won something... even if it was minor (like the Bisons/Bandits)

"Last time I checked, that's an Oklahoma City team. "

They were a Seattle team when they won the NBA championship. The Clippers didn't win one when they were a Buffalo team, but if they had, I'd still count it.

Well pretty much all Buffalo teams are awful, plain and simple.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978%E2%80%9379_Seattle_SuperSonics_season

Seattle's last pro championship: 1979.

Buffalo's last pro championship: never.

Yep :) gotta love Buffalo teams...

I moved to Detroit, because I figured I wanted to go somewhere with a worse football team and at least it's better than living in Cleveland.

What I love about the Hawks winning are all the fireworks going off :) And really when was the last time a Minnesota team won anything. The Vikings haven't even been to the Superbowl in Mr. CF's lifetime and yet he still cheers for them

You guys have it easy. You should try being a Boston fan. All you people that never win anything are so misguided; you're all used to winning nothing and sucking every year. On the other hand, we win the NBA Championship all the time, the World Series all the time, and are in the Stanley Cup year after year. The Patriots are always good because Belichick is a douchebag but a genius at the same time. Both BU and BC are great hockey schools and BC has a decent football program every now and again. We are so good that it hurts soooo bad when the Celtics trade away their entire roster, the Red Sox ownership runs the best manager we'd had in 80 years out of town and rebuilds the team, and the Patriots have lost 2 Super Bowls in a row (AHHHHH!!!!). The Bruins lose a stunner in the Stanley Cup, man it sucks so bad to have teams that are always good!

Seriously, Seattle? Buffalo for fucks sake?! You guys have it good. It sucks to be a Boston fan.

Minnesota? I believe that would be the Twins in 1991.

There's also the fact that I wasn't alive when the Sonics last won, and thus the only relevant experiences I really have are the Mariners collapsing in September or blowing playoff runs before the World Series, the Seahawks losing due to terrible officiating or stupid endgame collapses, and the Sonics leaving.

Buffalo, on the other hand, is in New York. You should all just root for the Yankees and move on with your lives.

Buffalo is closer to the Tigers, Blue Jays, Indians, and Pirates than they are to the Yankees. With the Tigers exception, that's a lot of MLB futility to root for.

But yeah, that Super Bowl with the Seahawks...I still think the "illegal block" on Matt Hasselbeck is the single worst call in Super Bowl history.

"Buffalo, on the other hand, is in New York. You should all just root for the Yankees and move on with your lives."

Root for the Yankees? Go suck a dildo.

I got to say nice job Hawks. About the Minnesota teams, abandon them while you still have a love for sports. I only root for the Vikes because i live in MN. Otherwise go Ravens. The Wild are jokes and have you ever heard of the TWolves? I havent. Twins always face the Yankees if they make the playoffs. I understand why everyone hates those bloody Yanks

Another thing, Boston got a lot of wiggle room from the officials. Maybe the Boston Marathon had something to do with it?

Lol... dude, quit while you're ahead.

Bo, you can't talk, you're a fucking Boston sports fan who lives in Richwhitepeopleland, Indiana.

Hence my first post.

My point is that that's arguably as bad as rooting for the damned Yankees. Not to mention the fact that the original suggestion was not at all serious.

If you live in New York or have some connection to the team, root for them. I have a connection to Boston so I root for them (except the Patriots, can't stand them, even worse now since ESPN has half their staff at every one of their bathroom breaks since Tebow is there). If you have a reason to root for a team, root for them. It's the people that don't but do anyway because they think the hat looks cool yet don't know who the #4 starting pitcher is that get me off.

And the Yankees have a lot of those.

To be fair, some teams don't have more than a couple of starting pitchers worthy of even short-term remembrance. Just look at my Mariners.

You could be the Astros or Cubs.

Or the Marlins. That'd be worse.

True, though the Mariners actually spend money on players...

I resigned myself to this fate when we traded Adam Jones for Eric Bedard and then added a bunch of quality prospects to the deal because Baltimore clearly wasn't already getting the better end of it. Watching the Mariners play now is basically just deciding I want to sit through a few hours of pain and sadness.

My my...all this talk of Buffalo and Seattle futility almost makes me glad to be a Mets fan...

Almost.

I like the 49ers...but San Fan just lost the SB, and hasn't won it while I've been a fan, so no points there...

The Ducks! There we go, my Anaheim Ducks--lost this year but won in 2007! :)

Well, just so long as LA, San Jose and Detroit (FUCK THE RED WINGS!) lose...

OK, congrats Chicago. (Now, can we PLEASE kill the Coyotes and get that team out of the desert and relocated to Quebec already? Come on...VAN/ANA/SJ/LA/COL would be a GREAT Pacific division, the Coyotes are the sore in an otherwise amazing division!)

Hold up, Seattle's got dibs on the next hockey franchise.

I think not...not with Quebec's history and their new arena, due to open in 2015 or so.

Seattle can have one of the struggling NBA franchises to give the Sonics new life...

Winnipeg finally got their Jets back--let Quebec have its Nordiques back, and Canada will finally and properly have 8 hockey teams, the way it should be:

Maple Leafs, Senators, Canadiens and Nordiques (once bitter rivals, that'll be fun to revive) and then Jets, Canucks, Flames and Oilers (also former rivals) all revived.

With Phoenix gone, the problem is solved. :)

That being said, there are plenty of other NHL franchises that could use some moving, and maybe someday Seattle can get one of THEM...

Either the Lightning or Panthers (Florida does NOT need two hockey teams and cannot support two...I say leave the Lightning since they won a Cup and move the Panthers)...

Columbus has struggled (though that's a bit unfair, as they've yet to have a contender)...

Nashville seems to have warmed to the Predators a bit, so perhaps that's salvageable...

I'd like to see the Stars stay in Dallas, as even though hockey in Texas on the surface seems as bad as hockey in Arizona, at least the Stars have had some history there since moving from Minnesota, and Texas is a big market...

And then of course I'd REALLY like to see the Islanders and Devils find financial stability and be able to stay put as well--too much history and too many Stanley Cups attached to those teams to just kill those franchises and move them willy-nilly.

So I'd say after Phoenix-to-Quebec, maybe in a few years Columbus or one of the two Florida teams going to Seattle is the Emerald City's best bet for a hockey team (which would be nice, and a division of the Anaheim/Los Angeles/San Jose/Vancouver/Seattle would be about as perfect a Pacific Division as could be...I want that to happen, every team in there has a rivalry already in place or in geographical sense with the other four teams, it'd be a GREAT division for the game...too often people get hung up on only Northeast and Central Division teams...a Pacific Division like the one above would really solidify the West Coast as a prime hockey locale--LA's Kings and my dear ANA Ducks with Cups and playoff history, SJ and VAN with numerous memorable playoff runs and hot teams right now, and then a fresh new franchise in Seattle...it'd be great!)

:D

So let's move the Panthers and Coyotes already to Bring Back the Nordiques and give Seattle a team and get on with this NHL Utopia already! :)

(Also, as a side note--really off the wall, but does anyone else really hope the Montreal Expos get to come back someday? I'm glad we have baseball in the Nation's Capital again, but the Expos were just gutted and run by terrible ownership and never got the new stadium they sorely needed, had the best record in 1994 before the season was cancelled and they lost so much revenue they had to sell what looked like a potentially-WS-winning team...just saying...)

Don't fucking talk to me about teams that were good in '94...

As for the Expos, there was so little interest that MLB had to take direct ownership. I don't really think Montreal deserves another team, and we just finally fixed the whole divisional imbalance thing, so there should be no fiddling with such things for a while.

As for hockey and basketball and all that, I don't really follow hockey, but I've definitely heard talk in recent months of an NHL team coming to Seattle. I don't know how much of that is legitimate speculation and how much is just wishful thinking. I also severely doubt we'll be getting a basketball team after the whole Kings thing failed. Nobody outside of Seattle really seemed keen on giving us that team.

Well interest was high in the Expos when they were winning...and doing well...

And then 1994 happened and they had to sell off all their best players while not getting a new stadium and having terrible ownership.

I'd give Montreal another shot--and you wouldn't even have to upset the balance of the divisions, just move one of the struggling Florida teams (preferably the Rays) to Montreal...if Toronto can be in the AL East, so can Montreal (the Senators were originally an AL team and now the Nats are in the NL, so maybe the once-NL Expos can come back in the AL.)

And yeah...

The Mariners/Expos World Series--the best Fall Classic That Never Was.

"And then 1994 happened and they had to sell off all their best players while not getting a new stadium and having terrible ownership."

Are you sure you aren't talking about the Marlins?

I was in Wrigleyville last night for the game and riot. It was awesome. Work today sucked, though.

This Cubs season is hitting me especially hard since I've happened to go to so many more games, but I won't be really broken till we reach 2045 and it's a hundred years since we've even lost a World Series.

Invictus: I can only imagine. I live right off Division in WP, and despite heading in at 1, I wasn't able to sleep until about 3 and the honking died off.

All this came from the topic of the Stanley Cup? Impossibru!...
Anyways, maybe we can ship the Buffalo Bills to Toronto? I am pretty sure this was supposed to happen this past year, but never did... That'd be interesting...

They play a home game in Toronto every year. My understanding is there's a proposal to build them a stadium in downtown Buffalo soon, pull them out of Orchard Park. It's the new hotness, actually playing in the city you're named for.

Yes, I occasionally watch them in OP, but it makes no sense why they actually play there (because half the crowd would die after every game because of all the crime in the city, plus the crowd wouldmixed with drunk white people)...

And really, rooting for the Yankees guys? That's about as hard as breathing and eating…

And I was talking about the actual city of Buffalo in the first part of my last post.

There's areas that aren't so bad in the 'flo. I spent my teenage years living there, near Delaware Park. It was not so bad. Then again, as stated, I live in Detroit now, so...maybe my index for what constitutes bad is sort of jaded.

Well yes, Delaware Park is in the good part of Buffalo. Once you get to " the hood" (as some call it), it isn't too pretty...

I've been to quite a few places around the city, I don't think it's really any worse than any other major city I've been to, and better than several.

Now Niagara Falls on the other hand...I won't set foot more than 100 feet from the State Park there. And in some places, not even that.

True... True. But from what I've heard, Buffalo has the second highest crime rate in the country, behind Detroit... Hmmm.

I don't know about that...I know Baltimore's always up there, and Washington hilariously enough.