Psh, at least the Braves were good in fairly recent years! Try Notre Dame, Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Cavaliers fan. Thats championship futility there. Last championship for any of those teams was the Irish in '88. I'm 30 now, but was only 6 in '88. Before that you have to go back to the '60s with the Browns, and the '40s for the Indians. Cavs got nothin'. Probably could have been a Buckeye fan first and Irish fan second growing up in Ohio...na, doesn't feel right.
I've always wondered which is worse: to be a fan of a team that perpetually sucks (Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland sports teams, etc.) or to be a fan of a team just good enough to tease you with the promised land but choke once you get too close. It's like asking which is worse, getting blown out or losing a close game. Neither one is pleasant but which is worse?
All I can tell you is that after the first few years being "good" gets old. When you have three of the greatest pitchers to ever put on a uniform in your rotation you should win more than 1 World Series. And look at this year, MLB decides to create some new Wild Card play in game and as soon as it was created every Braves fan in the world knew we were going to get screwed in that game. We finished with 94 wins, 5th most in baseball, 6 games better than the Cards, with a 5-1 head to head record against them. We had the hottest pitcher on the planet in our stadium. Of course we lose because we're the Braves. We choke so hard that MLB had to create an additional game just to ensure we choked.
But no team lets me down like my old reliable Minnesota Vikings. It's like clockwork, once a decade they must choke in the NFCCG to baptize a new batch of young fans into the Vikings clan. My baptism was 1998, Vikings vs. Falcons. Best offense in NFL history (at that point), a kicker who hadn't missed a FG all year! In our dome with Randy Moss still in his prime (hell he was a rookie still)! And we lose and of course Gary Anderson misses the FG that would have iced the game. My wife, who was not a Vikings fan growing up as she is from Florida, got her baptism in 2009 watching Brett Favre throw away our Super Bowl hopes in the Big Easy.
