#2 Most Tortured Sports City
Each week Cold Pizza counts down the Most Tortured Sports Cities. There are 15 on the list so this has been going on forever, plus they just took 2 weeks off for Wimbledon. Some info about Cold Pizza. Its the absolutely awful morning show on ESPN2. There are 4 hosts I had only ever heard of one of them before the show because she was on the first season of Road Rules. The only reason I ever watch is because I don’t like to vomit in my bed and ESPN Shorts, Hearsay, the Budweiser Hot Seat, and whatever other garbage ESPN things is better suited for SportsCenter than highlights.
Anyways I knew we were coming up this week since there were only 2 left, we can’t be #1. With each city you get a video montage, some people from the city on the show and then on espn.com Page 2 there are usually a few columns. Seeing Joe Carter hit the Home Run off Mitch pretty much ruined my day. The Phanatic joined DJ Jazzy Jeff in what was an All-Star panel representing Philly. The two articles were Sal Palantonio’s which just talks about being a Philly fan and The Top 10 Worst Moments. Now I know that Philly loves the Eagles but losing the way the Phillies did in 93 cannot be topped by a lost in a Conference Championship Game. In the next tier would be the last 2 NFC Championship Games along with the 64 Phillies. The Eagles games were rough since we should never have lost in the last game at the Vet and we should have never lost to Tampa in the cold. The Panthers should have been easily beaten and we should not have lost 3 chances to go to the Super Bowl in a row. The 64 Phillies is the same sort of deal since winning the division meant going to the World Series. To have it so wrapped up and then to lost 10 in a row, I can’t even imagine.
I think we should have been 3rd. Cleveland will be #1 on the Cold Pizza list, I would put them 2nd. First has to be Buffalo. They lost 4 straight Super Bowls. Just the Norwood kick in that first one is enough on its own to get into the Top 5. Then losing 3 after that, ouch. The Sabers lost the Stanley Cup on a blown call by the officials. And it snows a lot (which is why the Twin Cities would be 4th but the Metrodome and the teams help that ranking out).