Has your team ever let you down?
 

Last night I witnessed the team I've followed all my life lose their most important game in years. Regardless of the sport in question, you have to wonder whether the athletes we idolise really could give a fuck about us fans, who pay their ridiculous salaries.

It's difficult to describe the gut wrenching disappointment I feel today.

Try to imagine your girlfriend dumps you, for your best friend, on your birthday, and runs over your dog on her way out.

It's not all doom and gloom though. If I consider this logically then I realise I am very much in the majority of sports fans.
The English Premier League consists of 20 teams. Only one of which will win. That leaves 19 teams (or 95%) who won't win, or they will lose if you prefer.

When Saturday comes I'll still be there, buying overpriced hot-dogs and cheering until I'm hoarse, with 52,191 other 'losers' safe in the knowledge that we are not alone.

Come on Sox and Cubs fans, this is your thread...

-Mikey

Last year. Leeds. 2-1. Man U sealed the title.

That and the All Blacks screwing up the Bledisloe cup decider every year since 98 (until this year HA! That mug is back where it belongs!).

Oh, also whenever any team I bet on loses = frustration.

I'm an Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Falcons and Buffalo Bills fan. It's more like 'has your team ever lived up to your dreams?' for me! :)

a hem clots pacers and cubs fan here

yes my teams have let me down big

the pacers and cubs seem to care about us fans the players especially are nice at games


the colts dont give a dam

I'm a Lions fan so obviously I have been let down.

I'm a Buffalo Bills fan, so YES!!! Although winning 4 straight AFC championships is pretty good.

Pfft, got most of y'all beat, Sox and Pats fan...Although a couple years ago was good for the Pats, last year was bad. The Sox says it all...Oh well, Yankees still suck :p
/ducks

everytime texas loses to oklahoma........god i hate it.

Red Wings, Defending Stanley Cup Champs, 2nd in the West, Swept in the 1st round of the playoffs by the scrub Mighty Ducks.............enough said.

Boston Red Sox-----Bill Buckner (a name that's haunted me for years)

Cleveland Browns-----The Drive, The Fumble, take your pick



FUCK, why did I click on this thread?!?

No, not really, because I'm very optimistic, I listened to every single game through the 4-32 the Orioles went through last year.

I just always say, "You gotta have Faith."

That has to be mine, too.

Actually, Duke coming back from 12 points down to beat the Terps in OT, followed by their overcoming a 22 point halftime deficit in the national semifinal game is just as bad.

The Cowboys do every year.

I hope it will change this year

As a Saints and Cubs fan, god yes I am let down. At least the Rockets won a few titles in the NBA in 94 and 95.

Well, I'm from Chicago, home of the Bears, Cubs, Sox, Blackhawks. Name a sport, and we're disappointed.

As a Cubs and Vikings fan, I get let down every year, I've pretty much gotten used to it. =)

Jets fan checking in. We used to where bags over our heads to the games. They always seem to find new and exciting ways to blow it.

Tonight. Northern Illinois 20, Maryland 13

Yes, whenever I need my favorite teams to really come through for me (Cowboys, Stars, Longhorns, Spurs, Team USA Hockey) they always let me down. Altho the Spurs have been my bright spot this past year, they coulda had J-Kidd to Duncan and they screwed it up!

hold you head High Brother!!!!! Us Lions fans are a strong bunch. I say give them 2 years with this new coach... then SUPERBOWL BOUND!!!!!!!!! (or not)

Eags- two NFC championship games last two years- zero trips to the big game. They don't make it this year, philly will bury them

well... coming from a country where the main religion is SPORT... and this year being less than brilliant, i guess you could say that my team(s) have let me down a bit... but i don´t like to think that, because most of the time, they´ve just been outplayed.

take the Netball world championships this year. I love my Aussie netball girls. and up until this year, they´ve practically never lost. but in the finals, they actually lost to NZ... who deserved it. a let down, but its ok.

and my beloved Rugby.... well, this year has seemed to have gone from one down point to another.
with so many injuries and so many different tactical changes, theres been many let downs. but i can live with them.

Saturday 30th August: Newcastle United 0 - Birmingham City 1

The misery continues...

Bronco fan here, went through a lotta losing before a couple wins, but now its back to the losing.

if you are a red sox fan then you've been let down countless times

^ more times that I can count.

I was a Mets fan growing up on Long Island. LOVED the 86 team. But when they got rid of Carter and Mex and Dykstra and all the guys I grew up rooting for, and brought in Vince Coleman and Bobby Bonilla and a bunch of other assholes, I just couldn't bring myself to root for them any more. I've been a Pirate fan ever since I saw them against Atlanta in 91 and since I moved here they've become the object of my affection.

More of a long-range "team broke my heart story" than your typical "my team lost, waaa waaa waaa" kind of story.

Well lets see, I am a Cleveland browns, indians, cavs fan and a cincinatti reds and bengals fan. The last championship we have had in those sports would be the red in 90 i believe. Indians would have won the world series a couple of time had it not been for one thing here and one thing there, like the strike. Well at least I have the Ohio State Buckeyes!!

Hey! I live in Chicago! We're ALWAYS let down! The Bears, Cubs, White Sox, and Blackhawks have all let us down at one time or another. That's why I follow H.S. and college sports now. No over paid, under performing cry babies.

phyzix: Jose Mesa ;)

The Giants in Game 6 of the world series last year

Sure I've been let down when my team doesn't win it all but I root for the team not the individual players on that team. In todays world of free agents it doesn't pay to get too attached to anyone.

I'm from Michigan, so the area teams, college and pro, have consistently let me down. The Wings struggles have already been mentioned above and the Lions, Tigers and Pistons are a yearly dissapointment.

The Wolverines used to make a regular trip to the Rose Bowl, only to get killed on the field.

25 years of disappointment from my Seattle Mariners. More so in the past few year as they actually had a chance. It appears that they are well on their way to doing the same thing to us this year as well

As a Mets fan...I have to say YES!!!!

The Eagles always get so damn close and then the game they loose it doesn't even look like they try. /sigh or I should say that the plays that are called seem to make no sense.

Da Rams are killling me. Sooo much wasted talent, and an arrogant turd for a head coach

Miami....yesterday....I'm still in mourning so forgive me.

I'm starting to feel like an old grey-haired lady shaking my cane at the neighborhood kids running across my lawn as I smile in a bittersweet manner and say... "I remember back in '72"......

Anyone watch the Super Bowl last year?

:cries:

It's not about losing the big game. A team just shouldn't lose more than their fair share of big games.

Like, the Browns should not have lost 3 times in 4 years to the Broncos in the AFC Championship game. Like the Buckeyes should not have gone 2-12-1 against Michigan during the Cooper years.

2-0 by Tressel feels much better.

Thanks for listening.

Hey,
I'm a Bills fan, too! I certainly was let down by 4 straight super bowl losses, but what a great run! I'm enthused by them this year, too!

Reds, Eagles, 76ers, Flyers fan...13 years since any won it all (Reds) and 2 total championships since I have been watching sports (76ers in '83 was the other).

Many, many letdowns. Mostly the Eagles lately.

Good grief, I'm an Auburn fan. Where do I even start? How much time have you got?

By the way, if you hear a good Polish joke, but are afraid to repeat it in public, then simply tell it as an Auburn joke. It will always make sense, and might even be funnier.

Look under: Eagles, Philadelphia.

I might need to start finding other things to do with my Sundays.

As a Cubs fan... ... ... well, ... I'll just keep quiet ...

Come on now I'm a Dolphins fan. Expectations are always high and they always underachieve. And since I was born after 1972 it sucks even more since everone always says "atleast you had a perfect season", yeah well i wasn't around to see it.

Um yeah I'm a Met fan ... and a NY Giant fan .... and a NJ Net fan ...


I suck....

Like mikey said, suffice it to say I'm a Red Sox fan.

i also am a dolphins fan... so no i have never been let down, not every season, and certainly not the first game of this season


nope, never

Every time Michigan State plays Notre Dame, Michigan State lets me down. I think it was in 1990, Notre Dame and State were undefeated. State was up by 5 or 6 with less than a minute left. A desperation pass by the quarterback hit our defensive back in the hands and landed in the hands of a Notre Dame tight end lying on the ground on the two yard line.

Un-freakin-believable.

Dont even get me started about last year's game.

O come on it's the Sea Chickins!!!

The White Sox are doing it right now. I won't even talk about the Bears.

I am a Vancouver Canucks fan...two words DAN CLOUTIER...

Cubs - 1984 - 1989 - 1998 - 2003

Unfortunately, I can feel it. The way they just fell apart yesterday. Damn it!

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