Posted on 02/11/2010 8:03:24 AM PST by stainlessbanner
10. Philadelphia Eagles - inability to win the big game
9. Virginia Tech Football - won five of their last ten bowl games
8. Carolina Panthers - 3 winning seasons in last 10 years
7. Kentucky Men's Basketball - start strong, but don't finish strong
6. Cleveland Cavaliers - can't play together like a team
5. New York Mets - 2007: 17 games left to go and you can’t hold a seven game lead
4. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. - 363 career races, No. 88 has only won 18
3. Gonzaga Men's Basketball - mid conference, no major NBA players
2. Notre Dame Football - Just two 10-win seasons in the last 10 years, media darlings
1. Dallas Cowboys - 82-78 the last 10 years
“How about the young female golfer, what’s her name.”
I’ve never heard anyone hype her golf game.
Problem is that the Panthers will have a great season followed by a lousy season. They'll go 12-4 and look like a Super Bowl contender, but the next season they'll be 8-8.
I just never forgave them for losing to the Blue Jays in ‘92 and letting the World Series title end up in Canada.
...And let’s not forget,their one World Series victory was against the Cleveland Indians,who have a history of choking that rivals the Red Sox or Cubs!
She’s awfully bendy.
Next year Kentucky is going to suffer the same fate that UNC is suffering this year, when their "one-and-done" players turn pro.
Fred Lynn and Yaz ahead of DiMaggio? Williams, yes. Those two, absolutely not.
Wow. Are they that screwy?
Great Red Sox pitchers: Roger and the Babe, and...?
And their stupid fans believe it is their God given right to sing every single big free agent on the market no matter what the cost. And if they don't sign one, the locals flood the sports radio shows with "the Yankees are gonna suck this year!" misery. It's really quite tiring.
You know it really had to burn their fans to see us get our back-to-back titles.
“My point was that even if they had won every single World Series title ever, they still would be overhyped”
This is the sort of attitude with which it is impossible to have a rational discussion.
My favorite Opening Day banner at Wrigley Field one year was “Wait Til Next Year!”
Consistent first-round fodder,(for those rare occasions when they actually make the playoffs).
SEC Football - only two powerhouse teams yet every other team in the conference rides there backs like they are in best conference in football. Think they only had 3 ranked teams. Then ervery time an SEC team gets beat by out of conference team they say you didn’t play the big boys.
Two powerhouses - Bama Florida
LSU is next in line but other then that they are good to avg teams.
Bull. Tubby was a good coach, it was Gillespie who almost destroyed it. And shame on Kentucky for how they treated Tubby. A lot of good coaches, including Billy Donovan, who owe a lot to Tubby.
Off the top of my head, another pitcher was Denny Eckersly. I would not put Ted Williams ahead of many players of the game, including early players of the modern era. It’s just not possible to say that unless you had a terrible bias toward Bean Town. And therein lies my point about the Sox being the most overrated team in sports history.
Still, in 15 years the Panthers have reached the NFC title game three times and the Superbowl once.
lol
To apply a Seinfeld quote to the Chicago Cubs:
“It’s our sense of humor that has sustained us for 300 years.”
“That’s 5000 years”
“5000! Even better!”
Dude, it’s sports. There is no such thing as ‘rational discussion.’
That's 18 more than me.
But I won a raffle once that I wasn't expected to win. Guess that makes me "underrated." Suck on that, Earnhardt!
Oh, come on. You can’t dis Williams. .344 career average, last player to hit 400, 2nd highest career slugging percentage, 2nd highest career on-base percentage, two triple crowns, a third “unofficial” one, and a fourth which he lost by .0001 on his batting percentage. (Back then, they didn’t count walks as plate appearances for qualifying for the batting title.) And those three crowns aren’t even either of his MVP seasons.
Except for Roidzilla Barry Bonds, who on Earth from the modern era would you rank ahead of him?
If the list includes teams that spend enormous amounts of money for little results yet receive media praise as the finest are the two LA baseball teams: Dodgers and Angels. I’ve never seen any team lacking so much in production per $ spent as the Angels. But few are overhyped and memorialized like the Dodgers from Brooklyn onward.
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