Best sports team to not win a championship (1 Viewer)

[fantasycurse42]

American sports teams only.

Name the other of that's how you vote.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

1990 Buffalo Bills

 

[Eephus]

2001 Mariners

 

[Drifter]

In addition to the 90 Bills, you have the 2001 Mariners off the top of my head.

 

[spOOfy]

1st team I thought of was the Bills.

 

[Godsbrother]

1976 Steelers.

 

[The Ref]

1994 expos

 

[D in the D]

2001 Seattle Mariners should be in the conversation along with maybe the 1983 Houston Cougars. Phi Slamma Jamma got beat by a dunk!

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

pretty terrible poll when 'Other' winds up winning by far.

 

[Pickle Rody]

1991 Eagles

 

[urbanhack]

98 Vikings

 

[dgreen]

'83 Redskins

 

[Mister CIA]

Phi Slamma Jamma

 

[fantasycurse42]

pretty terrible poll when 'Other' winds up winning by far.

16 votes, split pretty evenly so far...

 

[Brony]

1981 St. Micheals 6th grade "B" team girls volleyball

 

[D in the D]

1985-86 Edmonton Oilers if we include them in "American Sports Teams only"

 

[jon_mx]

UNLV did win in 1990, so not winning in 1991 is really not that horrible.

 

[Hov34]

1994 Montreal Expos

 

[Don Quixote]

2004 USC

 

[Cliff Clavin]

96 Red Wings

 

[SkyRattlers]

1985-86 Edmonton Oilers if we include them in "American Sports Teams only"

Good answer

 

[Tom Servo]

1995 Cleveland Indians

 

[Zegras11]

yet again, you suck at poles

 

[Popinski]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_Chicago_Cubs_season

 

[Jack White]

The 1997 and 1998 Utah Jazz.

Great team that would have won back to back titles in another era. Of all the teams the Bulls beat for their titles, these Jazz teams were the toughest to overcome.

 

[Limp Ditka]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_Chicago_Cubs_season

 

[fantasycurse42]

yet again, you suck at poles

Is this about the Pacific Northwest?

Add up all of the individual others... Doubtful that any will equal one of the 3 listed.

 

[Drifter]

The problem I have with the 98 Vikings is that as good as they were, I think the Broncos still beat them in the SB.

 

[bagger]

1980 Olympic ussr hockey team

But buffalo bills was first team that came to mind.

 

[1234]

1979-80 Philadelphia Flyers

 

[TheIronSheik]

Is Montreal in America, now?

 

[larch]

1906 Chicago Cubs

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Is Montreal in America, now?

North America imo

 

[Guest]

Seem to remember a Patriots perfect season spoiled in the final seconds by a sticky helmet.

 

[TheIronSheik]

Is Montreal in America, now?

North America imo

Not just your opinion. That's a fact. HTH

 

[17seconds]

Man, "other" was so good that one year. shame

 

[NewlyRetired]

Georgetown, 1984/1985 college hoop season.

 

[mr roboto]

The problem I have with the 98 Vikings is that as good as they were, I think the Broncos still beat them in the SB.

As a Vikes fan I choose to believe this. It's the only way to cope.

 

[Cjw_55106]

I discount teams that lost in a series right out of the gate. If you were that good, how did you lose 4 games? Football, college basketball, etc....things can go wrong in a one game playoff.

 

[Thunderlips]

09/10 Phillies were pretty good.

 

[PIK95]

Vlade's Kings.

 

[TobiasFunke]

I discount teams that lost in a series right out of the gate. If you were that good, how did you lose 4 games? Football, college basketball, etc....things can go wrong in a one game playoff.

This is some weird logic. For one thing, the Mariners won a series before they lost one. For another, all the best teams lose four games out of seven at some point. The 1927 Yankees lost 4 of 5 at one point.

The reason some sports have seven games series is partially because they have more game to game variance. There's no baseball or hockey or NBA teams with .850+ win percentages like you see all the time in the NFL or college basketball. So it's an apples and oranges comparison.

 

[comfortably numb]

1968 Baltimore Colts

 

[TheIronSheik]

The Harlem Globetrotters

 

[Jack White]

I discount teams that lost in a series right out of the gate. If you were that good, how did you lose 4 games?

Ask the six teams who had to face Michael Jordan in the Finals.

 

[D in the D]

Vlade's Kings.

Those teams had Chris Webber on them, so they were doomed to be losers from the start.

 

[mquinnjr]

Seem to remember a Patriots perfect season spoiled in the final seconds by a sticky helmet.

Came in to post this, has to be the winner here.

 

[Pipes]

UNLV did win in 1990, so not winning in 1991 is really not that horrible.

For college hoops I'd put Phi Slamma Jam (ridiculously talented teams) and the Fab 5 ahead of the Rebs since UNLV got one the year before.

 

[fantasycurse42]

Man, "other" was so good that one year. shame

What would your poll consist of?

2/3 of the votes have landed on 3 teams, with 1/3 landing on every team ever

 

[TobiasFunke]

Seem to remember a Patriots perfect season spoiled in the final seconds by a sticky helmet.

Came in to post this, has to be the winner here.

2007 Pats were maybe the best team any of us have ever seen for a half-season, but they weren't nearly as good after that. They went 1-8 against the spread in their last nine games (six regular season games, three playoff games). Got bailed out on an iffy fourth down penalty that got them a win over a crappy Ravens team and almost lost at home to a mediocre Eagles team. Also fell behind in both of their home playoff games against relatively weak teams. Still a decent choice here because they were just out of control for those first ten games, but they were showing some serious cracks by the time they got to the Super Bowl.