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Originally Posted by powerclown
At least you know where you stand.
We here in Detroit have to deal with the illness of sports schizophrenia. 2 of the best teams in the Pistons and Red Wings, and 2 of the worse franchises EVER in the Tigers and Lions. As long as you're not a baseball or football fan here, you're fine.  |
At least you have won championships. None of your teams get close then fall apart because of poor ownership and freaks of fate.
CLE is cursed. It at one time was one of the richest most productive and proud cities in the world. Today, it is a shadow of it's former glory. The main reason is you have very old money in the town that refuses tomodernize the town. Jacobs tried by building Gateway and the Flats up in the late 80's and it flourished. Hell, other cities looked at CLE at the time and remodeled their downtowns the way CLE had. Until, the old money started buying up downtown again and raising rents and allowing crime to retake the city.
NO PLACE I have ever been to rocked like the Flats in the mid 90's. You had the TRIBE jamming, you had an economic boom in the city, parties and the best bars and then it fell apart again.
There is talk of bringing gambling to CLE. and in all honesty, I could see CLE becoming Vegas East and then something happen and CLE falls hard and fast again.
No other city I know of suffers from the disturbing curse CLE seems to be under. Even Pittsburgh and Detroit have gone through their disasterous period, but have come back stronger than ever.