Thursday, October 28, 2004

WORTH COMING OUT OF HIBERNATION FOR: Please, people, amid all the gloating and reverie on Kenmore Square, let's not forget this: since 1984, Boston's three major sports teams* have now won two Super Bowls, two NBA titles and one World Series, with five other trips to league championship series during the twenty-year span. That's an average of one trip to the finals every-other-year.

During that same period, Philadelphia's three major sports teams have won zero titles and competed in only three league championship series. Philadelphia Phillies fans waited from 1883 to 1980 to see the team's first baseball title, a decade longer than a mere 86-year hex, and the franchise has lost more games -- 9805 -- than any other in professional sports history.

Boston fans are greedy. Let's talk about who's really cursed.

(* Hockey is no longer a major sport in the U.S. Sorry. Even if it were, it doesn't help.)

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