Minnesota Sports Fans - Who Has It Worse Than Them? (1 Viewer)

[ChiefD]

Was a great game. I bet Quinnipiac to win the semi and the final.

 

[zamboni]

Let me guess, they got up 2-0 and went into a defensive shell in order to protect that lead - and it backfired?

100%. Unbelievable. They were dominating that game.

What a brutal brutal loss.

Wow, didn’t realize Minn lost it. It’s great when the small D1 teams win it, like Lake Superior St, Ferris St, etc.

We felt that way a bit when UMass (where my son is a sophomore) won two years ago. More well known than the Quinnipiacs of the world but a relatively new program and had been overshadowed in the area by BC, BU, and Harvard.

 

[Zow]

I didn't watch it but the box score tells the story. The #1 scoring team in the country only had 15 shots all game and TWO in the third.

Let me guess, they got up 2-0 and went into a defensive shell in order to protect that lead - and it backfired?

I watched the third period and OT and that’s what it looked like.

Reminded me of the Vikings defense playing prevent with a lead. It seemed inevitable that Quinnipiac was going to score in the third period. So I guess it was more like watching an inevitable, slow train wreck.

The quick goal in OT was a gut punch though. Happened so fast (especially compared to the long time it took to get the third period goal) that it was more shocking than painful. It was also just a great play by Quinnipiac.

Brutal, but not even top 5 painful moments cheering for Minnesota teams.

 

[TheAristocrat]

I don't want to talk about it

 

[Tom Servo]

Cleveland...**** off, y'all playing for 2nd place

The Guardians haven't won a WS since 1948 and two of the three WS they've been to in my lifetime have ended up with my nuts getting kicked into my throat.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Can we just contract the Timberwolves already?

 

[SWC]

another great two week period for minnesota sports take that to the bank brohans

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Next up is the disappointment of the #1 seed Gophers hockey team not winning the National Championship.

UMD won back to back in 2018/2019 plus another in 2011.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Buffalo, Cincinnati, San Diego have all gone longer without a major league championship.

Sure, but these are one or two horse towns. Minnesota is dealing with all four majors being in prolonged droughts. Plus, Bengals are going to win 3-4 Super Bowls with Burrow.

How do we know that Burrow is not the Dan Marino of his generation? Having Mahomes, Allen and Herbert in the same conference does not make the path easy.

Mahomes needed the refs to beat Burrow this year. Borrow has already accomplished more than Herbert and Allen. He's also 10x the IQ of Marino.

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[Andy Dufresne]

Next up is the disappointment of the #1 seed Gophers hockey team not winning the National Championship.

UMD won back to back in 2018/2019 plus another in 2011.

Duluth is basically Wisconsin.

 

[Zow]

another great two week period for minnesota sports take that to the bank brohans

Uncool - hold me back, bro!

 

[SWC]

i actually think duluth is really pretty with the harbor and lake superior and all the parks all that jazz take that to the bank brohans

 

[facook]

i do really like ole and sven jokes though for real they get me laughing pretty hard take that to the bank bromigos

Ole was vacationing at a bar in West Fargo when a guy bet him a beer he couldn't solve a riddle. Ole took him up on it so the guy says "My mother had a baby that wasn't my sister or my brother... So who was it?" Ole sat there thinking and thinking and finally gives up. So the guy says "Me ya stoopid - buy me a beer!" Ole says, "Yah, dat's a good one!" and can't wait to pull the same deal on Sven .

So when Ole got home and was next time at the bar with Sven he bets him a beer he couldn't solve a riddle. Sven took him up on it so Ole says "My mother had a baby that vasn't my sister or my brother... So who vas it?" Sven sat there thinking and thinking and finally gives up. So Ole says "Vell, I guess it vas some guy in Vest Fargo - buy me a beer!"

Ole was talking with his brother Sven, who lived next door, when Sven said, “Ya know, Ole, you and Lena should really get some new curtains.” “Vy’s dat?” Ole asked. “Vell, last night I saw you and Lena ... vell, you know ...” Ole thought for awhile, then said, “Ha-ha, Sven, da yokes on you! I vasn’t even home last night!”

Me: I have it the worst

Vikings
White Sox (hey - at least we got 2005)
Purdue Football
Purdue Basketball

And now you live in a city with a basketball team that hasn't won a title since 1977 and is perpetually stuck in no-man's land because they are just good enough not to land a high-end lottery pick but not good enough to get past the 1st round of the playoffs (if they make it at all) and have squandered the prime of the greatest player the franchise has ever had.

Oh, and as soon as Paul Allen's sinister sister sells the team, the new owners will move the Blazers out of this state to one that has more favorable taxes and will be more attractive to free agents (who are NEVER coming to Portland).

How pissed are we going to be when Dame is draining 3's and Taking Care of Business is rocking for the Las Vegas Trailblazers in 4 years?

 

[Harry Frogfish]

Seriously, how can you screw up a brand new stadium like that? It's like you had Texans (Cowboys) come in and do it.

For example, guys, this is how high in the air punts can go, so let's make the video-board LOWER! It's that kind of stupid.

Another great idea. Let's make the stadium, and everyone here that pays for it, perfect for summer! Because Minnesota doesn't have to deal with weather issues, that much we know.

Geniu$.

 

[General Malaise]

i do really like ole and sven jokes though for real they get me laughing pretty hard take that to the bank bromigos

Ole was vacationing at a bar in West Fargo when a guy bet him a beer he couldn't solve a riddle. Ole took him up on it so the guy says "My mother had a baby that wasn't my sister or my brother... So who was it?" Ole sat there thinking and thinking and finally gives up. So the guy says "Me ya stoopid - buy me a beer!" Ole says, "Yah, dat's a good one!" and can't wait to pull the same deal on Sven .

So when Ole got home and was next time at the bar with Sven he bets him a beer he couldn't solve a riddle. Sven took him up on it so Ole says "My mother had a baby that vasn't my sister or my brother... So who vas it?" Sven sat there thinking and thinking and finally gives up. So Ole says "Vell, I guess it vas some guy in Vest Fargo - buy me a beer!"

Ole was talking with his brother Sven, who lived next door, when Sven said, “Ya know, Ole, you and Lena should really get some new curtains.” “Vy’s dat?” Ole asked. “Vell, last night I saw you and Lena ... vell, you know ...” Ole thought for awhile, then said, “Ha-ha, Sven, da yokes on you! I vasn’t even home last night!”

Me: I have it the worst

Vikings
White Sox (hey - at least we got 2005)
Purdue Football
Purdue Basketball

And now you live in a city with a basketball team that hasn't won a title since 1977 and is perpetually stuck in no-man's land because they are just good enough not to land a high-end lottery pick but not good enough to get past the 1st round of the playoffs (if they make it at all) and have squandered the prime of the greatest player the franchise has ever had.

Oh, and as soon as Paul Allen's sinister sister sells the team, the new owners will move the Blazers out of this state to one that has more favorable taxes and will be more attractive to free agents (who are NEVER coming to Portland).

How pissed are we going to be when Dame is draining 3's and Taking Care of Business is rocking for the Las Vegas Trailblazers in 4 years?

I'm too apathetic and fatigued to be mad by anything the Blazers do or do not do. I just want Dame to find success somewhere else. He deserves it. Portland does not deserve him any longer.

 

[Mr.Pack]

Interestingly on the morning show I listen to in Milwaukee, their Sports guy out of Vegas, Tim Murray, brought this up for debate this morning. Tim, are you lurking here?

 

[Keerock]

Interestingly on the morning show I listen to in Milwaukee, their Sports guy out of Vegas, Tim Murray, brought this up for debate this morning. Tim, are you lurking here?

I just assume everyone lurks here...

 

[General Malaise]

That was not a very good Lakers' team that beat the TWolves. 38 year old LeBron, AD and guys that looked like they came from the rec center. Blowing a big lead too. Gawd.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

The Wild will go from almost winning their division to being bounced out of the first round...again.

 

[msudaisy26]

Can we just contract the Timberwolves already?

When you say it like that if reminds me of parents trying to make their kids get chicken pox when we were kids.

 

[msudaisy26]

i do really like ole and sven jokes though for real they get me laughing pretty hard take that to the bank bromigos

Ole was vacationing at a bar in West Fargo when a guy bet him a beer he couldn't solve a riddle. Ole took him up on it so the guy says "My mother had a baby that wasn't my sister or my brother... So who was it?" Ole sat there thinking and thinking and finally gives up. So the guy says "Me ya stoopid - buy me a beer!" Ole says, "Yah, dat's a good one!" and can't wait to pull the same deal on Sven .

So when Ole got home and was next time at the bar with Sven he bets him a beer he couldn't solve a riddle. Sven took him up on it so Ole says "My mother had a baby that vasn't my sister or my brother... So who vas it?" Sven sat there thinking and thinking and finally gives up. So Ole says "Vell, I guess it vas some guy in Vest Fargo - buy me a beer!"

Ole was talking with his brother Sven, who lived next door, when Sven said, “Ya know, Ole, you and Lena should really get some new curtains.” “Vy’s dat?” Ole asked. “Vell, last night I saw you and Lena ... vell, you know ...” Ole thought for awhile, then said, “Ha-ha, Sven, da yokes on you! I vasn’t even home last night!”

Me: I have it the worst

Vikings
White Sox (hey - at least we got 2005)
Purdue Football
Purdue Basketball

And now you live in a city with a basketball team that hasn't won a title since 1977 and is perpetually stuck in no-man's land because they are just good enough not to land a high-end lottery pick but not good enough to get past the 1st round of the playoffs (if they make it at all) and have squandered the prime of the greatest player the franchise has ever had.

Oh, and as soon as Paul Allen's sinister sister sells the team, the new owners will move the Blazers out of this state to one that has more favorable taxes and will be more attractive to free agents (who are NEVER coming to Portland).

How pissed are we going to be when Dame is draining 3's and Taking Care of Business is rocking for the Las Vegas Trailblazers in 4 years?

I'm too apathetic and fatigued to be mad by anything the Blazers do or do not do. I just want Dame to find success somewhere else. He deserves it. Portland does not deserve him any longer.

You shouldn't be. The Blazers gave it a good run with Lillard. I believe it was Lamarcus Aldridge that wanted out, but I really thought that team with LMA, Dame, Batum and Matthews had a chance to do something if they could have gotten one more piece.

 

[General Malaise]

i do really like ole and sven jokes though for real they get me laughing pretty hard take that to the bank bromigos

Ole was vacationing at a bar in West Fargo when a guy bet him a beer he couldn't solve a riddle. Ole took him up on it so the guy says "My mother had a baby that wasn't my sister or my brother... So who was it?" Ole sat there thinking and thinking and finally gives up. So the guy says "Me ya stoopid - buy me a beer!" Ole says, "Yah, dat's a good one!" and can't wait to pull the same deal on Sven .

So when Ole got home and was next time at the bar with Sven he bets him a beer he couldn't solve a riddle. Sven took him up on it so Ole says "My mother had a baby that vasn't my sister or my brother... So who vas it?" Sven sat there thinking and thinking and finally gives up. So Ole says "Vell, I guess it vas some guy in Vest Fargo - buy me a beer!"

Ole was talking with his brother Sven, who lived next door, when Sven said, “Ya know, Ole, you and Lena should really get some new curtains.” “Vy’s dat?” Ole asked. “Vell, last night I saw you and Lena ... vell, you know ...” Ole thought for awhile, then said, “Ha-ha, Sven, da yokes on you! I vasn’t even home last night!”

Me: I have it the worst

Vikings
White Sox (hey - at least we got 2005)
Purdue Football
Purdue Basketball

And now you live in a city with a basketball team that hasn't won a title since 1977 and is perpetually stuck in no-man's land because they are just good enough not to land a high-end lottery pick but not good enough to get past the 1st round of the playoffs (if they make it at all) and have squandered the prime of the greatest player the franchise has ever had.

Oh, and as soon as Paul Allen's sinister sister sells the team, the new owners will move the Blazers out of this state to one that has more favorable taxes and will be more attractive to free agents (who are NEVER coming to Portland).

How pissed are we going to be when Dame is draining 3's and Taking Care of Business is rocking for the Las Vegas Trailblazers in 4 years?

I'm too apathetic and fatigued to be mad by anything the Blazers do or do not do. I just want Dame to find success somewhere else. He deserves it. Portland does not deserve him any longer.

You shouldn't be. The Blazers gave it a good run with Lillard. I believe it was Lamarcus Aldridge that wanted out, but I really thought that team with LMA, Dame, Batum and Matthews had a chance to do something if they could have gotten one more piece.

When Matthews blew out his Achilles, it just derailed that team. He was such a big part of their success.

Lillard took the Blazers to the West Coast finals and provided years of entertainment. Hard to fault him for having Golden State in the same conference. The Warriors are one of the best teams I've ever watched play basketball and when they had an off year, they just went out and signed KD. What's a team like Portland supposed to do when the rich just get richer?

So, I hope Portland trades him in the off-season and he lands somewhere that's ready to compete for a ring. I'm always going to root for him, but it's hard to watch him on a team that is going nowhere.

 

[BassNBrew]

The strange thing is that the Minneapolis/St. Paul pro sports teams purport to cover the entire state in their misery, rather than just isolating it to their city.

Minnesota Vikings
Minnesota Timberwolves
Minnesota Wild
Minnesota United FC

Does any other state do this to this extent? If I lived someplace like Rochester or Duluth I'd be pissed - keep yer crappy franchises to yourself.

Never really thought about it but they are the only state named teams by and large. There are a couple stragglers (California Angels that changed, and Florida Marlins that changed). New York could be contributed to the city rather than the state. The Washington teams aren't even for the state but for the D.C.

Hmmmmm. I think this puts Minnesota over the top for misery. They are infecting the entire state whether you want to be part of it or not. Nobody else does this.

The strange thing is that the Minneapolis/St. Paul pro sports teams purport to cover the entire state in their misery, rather than just isolating it to their city.

Minnesota Vikings
Minnesota Timberwolves
Minnesota Wild
Minnesota United FC

Does any other state do this to this extent? If I lived someplace like Rochester or Duluth I'd be pissed - keep yer crappy franchises to yourself.

Never really thought about it but they are the only state named teams by and large. There are a couple stragglers (California Angels that changed, and Florida Marlins that changed). New York could be contributed to the city rather than the state. The Washington teams aren't even for the state but for the D.C.

Hmmmmm. I think this puts Minnesota over the top for misery. They are infecting the entire state whether you want to be part of it or not. Nobody else does this.

Arizona Cardinals
Golden State Warriors
regional - New England Patriots

Carolina Panthers - Just so we can disappoint two states.

 

[3 hour lunch]

Bump for a depressing hockey game. In the past 31 years, MN pro sports teams have played 117 seasons (7 of no hockey). None have made the finals. Assuming a 1/16 chance of making it, the chances of this stretch of ineptitude is about 1200 to 1

 

[TheAristocrat]

Bump for a depressing hockey game. In the past 31 years, MN pro sports teams have played 117 seasons (7 of no hockey). None have made the finals. Assuming a 1/16 chance of making it, the chances of this stretch of ineptitude is about 1200 to 1

There will be a documentary on this someday. Or maybe not since even the close ones are few and far between.

 

[snellman]

Minnesota fans got a small moral victory. First time the Twins have beat the Yankees in a season series since 2001. If they could have beat them today, it would have been the first time they swept the Yankees in a series since 1991.

 

[The Z Machine]

At least the Bucks got bounced out by the Heat, right???

 

[Zow]

At least the Bucks got bounced out by the Heat, right???

Let’s go with “at least we didn’t embarrass ourselves against a good Denver team.”

 

[Zow]

Saw a stat on a Facebook meme this morning that, since the Twins won in '91, the four major Minnesota/Twin Cities sports teams have made the playoffs fifty (50) times since then. They are currently 0/50 in making each sport's respective championship game. For comparison's sake, no other city/designated geographical area with multiple major pro sports teams have gone more than thirty (30) playoff appearances without having a team at least make a championship game.

The stat to me really embodies following Minnesota sports teams* because, unlike say teams from Cleveland or Detroit, Minnesota teams are consistently competitive - they just can't get to a championship.

*I'm a Vikings and Timberwolves fan but while I primarily follow and root for the Mets and the Maple Leads in their respective sports, I still monitor the Twins and Wild and actively root for them when the Mets and/or Leafs are out of it (which is, unfortunately, quite often).

 

[DJackson10]

Officially a Milan player

Christian Pulisic, new signing of the AC Milan transfer market: the official statement | AC Milan

The American winger has signed till 2027

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[DJackson10]

Cp press conference https://twitter.com/milaneye/status/1679540194188353537?s=46&t=PCxqO9xyN-T55d6gswo8sQ

 

[DJackson10]

Officially a Milan player

Christian Pulisic, new signing of the AC Milan transfer market: the official statement | AC Milan

The American winger has signed till 2027

bit.ly

Whoops wrong thread not sure how that happened

 

[SWC]

i just read a report that most people in minnesota suffer from lead poisoning take that to the bank brohans

 

[Zow]

man i agree minnesotans are good people they just cant catch a break and they need one with everything they have against them look im with you but one thing i am sure of is that every minnesota drivers ed course must teach them to do exactly the speed limit in the fast lane and never speed up or move over if i was a cop i would arrest like 90 percent of the st paul crowd for impeding traffic it would also be awesome and the best thing of all is that no minnesotan would ever try to get away they would just pull over and do that whole minnesota confused thing like they just cant imagine why anyone would be mad that they were doing exactly the speed limit its great take that to the bank brohans

Dude, Wisconsin drivers are sooooo much worse about this. Yes, Minnesota drivers are terrible about this, too. But, anecdotally, Wisconsin was sooo much worse.

 

[BeTheMatch]

Iowa is worse by the power of 10. It's not even close.

 

[skol asylum]

i just read a report that most people in minnesota suffer from lead poisoning take that to the bank brohans

Yeah, lead on by their sports teams year after year.

 

[urbanhack]

Me: I have it the worst

Vikings
White Sox (hey - at least we got 2005)
Purdue Football
Purdue Basketball

***2023 UPDATE***

• Purdue Men's Basketball - First round loss as a #1 seed
• Purdue Football - 1-3 - lost all three games at home
• Vikings - see yesterday
• White Sox - 60-96, on the way to losing 100 games as a pre-season division favorite

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Gophers we're beating Northwestern by 21 in the 4th quarter only to lose in overtime.

Northwestern.

 

[SWC]

one thing that minnesota does really well is draft really good skills players like awesome wrs and rbs and then trade them away so they can be awesome somewhere cool take that to the bank brohans

 

[SWC]

but hey at least you guys will have the corpse of aaron rodgers in like two years so you have that going for you which is nice take that to the bank bromigos

 

[simsarge]

one thing that minnesota does really well is draft really good skills players like awesome wrs and rbs and then trade them away so they can be awesome somewhere cool take that to the bank brohans

Yep. No way Jefferson, Diggs and a pre-Geritol Cook would have been any good together.

 

[ChiefD]

Twins are looking to win at least one game this year in the playoffs.

Would be a successful year.

 

[Zow]

one thing that minnesota does really well is draft really good skills players like awesome wrs and rbs and then trade them away so they can be awesome somewhere cool take that to the bank brohans

Temperature wise, there’s literally no “cooler” professional sports town than Minneapolis so your post is totally wrong and you can take that to the (snow)bank.

 

[Zow]

Me: I have it the worst

Vikings
White Sox (hey - at least we got 2005)
Purdue Football
Purdue Basketball

***2023 UPDATE***

• Purdue Men's Basketball - First round loss as a #1 seed
• Purdue Football - 1-3 - lost all three games at home
• Vikings - see yesterday
• White Sox - 60-96, on the way to losing 100 games as a pre-season division favorite

Vikings - see yesterday
Mets - massive payroll only to fire sale at the break after being under .500
Maple Leafs - can’t win a damn playoff series
Timberwolves - Goebert

 

[Chemical X]

i am a met, knick, ranger and jet fan out of ny. i wasn’t old enough for the jet, knick titles in 69-73. i have 1 met, 1 ranger title. nothing else.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Who decided that this Gophers vs Wolverines game should be on national TV?

If I HAD to bet my house on something this week it would have been Minnesota being unable to keep Michigan under 50 points.

Oh and the Twins lost too.

 

[Gally]

Yep. No way Jefferson, Diggs and a pre-Geritol Cook would have been any good together.

Not sure if they could have had Diggs and Jefferson. The pick they got for Diggs was used for Jefferson. No trade.....no pick.

 

[BeTheMatch]

Well, it was a good run...

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Thanks for playing!

 

[General Malaise]

Wolves and Wild time to shine!