Survey Monday Holy Week

The Gipper

Zombo said:

Now, I'm not one to blow my own horn as the guys in the Baseball League will tell you (1st place by 15 points ... 49 points ahead of Rich), but picking Dallas to win before the playoffs started was pretty damn cool ... and if the Canucks win at home in Game 7, then I nailed both champions ... in April.

Leave it to the NFL to hold a lockout when I'm this hot ... please come back, Browns, I was about to predict you all the way to the SB!

Zombo

I am hoping you nail them both Zombo.

Although the Bruins have not won since 1972, do we really need another title out of Boston? I believe if the Bruins win that Boston will be the only city in which all the teams from that city will have won a title since the year 2000, or at least had a team win a title in each of the major sports. Vancouver has gone since 1915 without one.

The Gipper

I did some more research on it. Towns that have won in each sport since the new millenium, the year 2000.

We do have 3 towns that have won a title since then in every sport in which they have a team, but these towns are only "One Horse Towns" We have Green Bay in football, San Antonio in basketball, and Raleigh in hockey.

But we also have LA/Anaheim which has won a title in all three sports in which it has a team: Lakers in basketball, Angels in baseball, Mighty Ducks in Hockey. LA has no NFL team and has not had one since the millenium.

And Boston has titles in three sports so far: Pats in football, Celtics in basketball, Red Sox in baseball,

....and if the Bruins win, they would complete the set.

And yet the fans from Boston would still whine and cry "poor, poor, pitiful me" over their sports team. Asswipes.

DieHardBrownsFan

@the-gipper said:

I did some more research on it. Towns that have won in each sport since the new millenium, the year 2000.

We do have 3 towns that have won a title since then in every sport in which they have a team, but these towns are only "One Horse Towns" We have Green Bay in football, San Antonio in basketball, and Raleigh in hockey.

But we also have LA/Anaheim which has won a title in all three sports in which it has a team: Lakers in basketball, Angels in baseball, Mighty Ducks in Hockey. LA has no NFL team and has not had one since the millenium.

And Boston has titles in three sports so far: Pats in football, Celtics in basketball, Red Sox in baseball,

....and if the Bruins win, they would complete the set.

And yet the fans from Boston would still whine and cry "poor, poor, pitiful me" over their sports team. Asswipes.

I don't think San Antonio qualifies as a "one horse town" .

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Pumpkin Eater

he was probably saying they have only one major pro sports team.

The Gipper

@pumpkin-eater said:

he was probably saying they have only one major pro sports team.

Uh, yea.Hello, McFly, is anybody home? This guy obviously needs to start reading my trivia threads. Believe it or not, you actually learn something in those.

A "One Horse Town" yes, simply refers to the fact that a particular city has only one team in any of the major sports leagues.

If you had read the trivia...which was only withing the past month, you would have known that MLB has -0- "one horse towns", that the NFL has 2: Green Bay and Jax. The NBA has Portland, Sacramento, Salt Lake, San Antonio, Memphis, OK City, and Orlando. The NHL has one horse towns in Columbus and Raleigh, and in Canada in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Montreal, and Ottawa.

And FYI, I know all about San Antonio. My sister in law lives there, and my daughter is likely to go to college there at Trinity U. (that was in another trivia thread).