Philadelphia ... 100 Seasons of Failure - New England Patriots Forums

***IcyPatriot*** · 05-19-2008, 06:50 PM

Yup ... Philly ... Arlen's home boys ... 100 seasons of "NOTHING"!

My nephew just graduated college and is a lawyer in Philly ... I love the Philly stories.
Especially when he talks about the fans calling the sports talk there ... it's comical.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...x.html?eref=T1

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A lifetime of rooting for teams that always let you down has taught many Philly natives how to lose, itself an important life lesson. Fans have been conditioned for failure. They expect defeat. Compound this trend with the city's historical inferiority complex and you've got something worse than fatalism: It's the perverse sense deep down that we don't even deserve it.

To commemorate the dubious milestone, here's a list of the 100 worst moments in Philadelphia sports during the drought. The scope is limited to the four major sports with a couple of obligatory exceptions. While the sheer length of the list might strike an outsider as a tad gratuitous -- an excessive tribute to failure -- there's simply no better way to relate the epic scope of Philly's perpetual heartbreak.

Kdo5 · 05-19-2008, 08:08 PM

From what I've heard Philly fans are the worst. Especially Eagles fans.

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