The only championship that a Philly team in one of the four major sports has won while I was alive was when the 76ers won in 1983. Fittingly, basketball is the sport I care/know about the least out of any of them. With the Flyers' recent big embarrassing failure against the Penguins, they've made it official: it's been one hundred straight sports seasons without a trophy in the City of Brotherly Love. That's a pretty staggering number.
I've seen each team get to the "big one" and choke. The Sixers' loss to the Lakers in 2001. The Flyers getting swept by the Red Wings in 1997. The Eagles' agonizing Super Bowl debacle against the Patriots in 2005. The Phillies' heartbreaking meltdown against the Blue Jays in the '93 World Series (damn you Joe Carter/Mitch Williams).
Over the years there have been many happy moments for a Philadelphia sports fan, but we're not interested in remembering them. No, we're much more interested in wallowing in self-pity, depression, self-loathing, devastation, uh... Did I mention self-pity? Anyway, a fine reporter at Sports Illustrated put together this dandy list of the 100 shittiest moments in the past 100 loser-laden seasons of Philly sports. Browse through the list, and let my people mope in misery forever!!!
Monday, May 19, 2008
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As a musician living in Los Angeles (by way of Philadelphia), all sorts of twisted thoughts constantly go through my head—the pathos of human nature; the qualms of "making it" in the industry; the fact that my tap water is orange even after the Brita filters it.
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