Most popular, memorable and beloved non title teams from your city?

[Soldier]

@broller

The 1992-93 Toronto Maple leafs are the best answer to the thread. I mean both Doug Gilmour and Wendel Clark are legends among most sports fans in this city, because of their strong performances that season. People still give them the champion treatment.

Cliff Fletcher (the Leafs general manager at the time) just hired a new ( but experienced) head coach who had previous success with the Montreal Canadiens in the past 4 years ( Pat burns)
He brought accountability, defensive structure and discipline to the team
It was the Leafs first winning season in 15 years
Also it was their First conference final appearance in 15 years
They played three Epic seven game series against the Detroit Red Wings (in round 1), St.louis Blues (in round 2)and LA kings in round 3( in that series, Wayne Gretzky scored his famous hat trick in game 7 to send the kings to the finals against the Habs)
Leafs were one goal away from a meeting with the Montreal canadiens in the Stanley cup finals

Molstar/Molson communications even produced a VHS of the 1992-93 Leafs playoff run highlights. Do you remember watching this ?


They brought back pride, swagger and respect to the Maple Leafs brand. They brought back the old fans and created new generations of others.

 

[EffedUp]

K Mart
Pete Mikel
Steve Logan
DeMarr Johnson
Kenny Satterfield

Dawg. The whole city felt it when K-Mart went down.

I became a Muskie but was a Bearcat fan first. Always rooting for them (except that one game a year lol). Huggins getting forced out, Cronin underachieving (and getting a bigger job smh) to the bullshyt now is tough to see.
None of our teams (Xavier) are that beloved city-wide despite several Sweet 16 runs IMO. Xavier could win the title but it would never come close to Cincinnati winning one. Not at all.

 

[Ohene]

2015 blue jays were dope
if david price's hoe ass doesnt choke we win it all

 

[MikelArteta]

Raptors 2001
Muggsy Bogues, Vnce Carter, Dell Curry, Antonio Davis, Mark Jackson, Tracy Murray, Oakley, Alvin Williams, Mo Peete, Jerome Williams

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

The We Believe Golden State team. I was heavy on. Message boards back then and I can remember them having chats going on and on. Then them nikkas got gentleman swept by Utah that next round. Plus if it wasn’t for this team, SJax wouldn’t have shyt to talk positively about from his lackluster NBA career.

 

[Erratic415]

Humm Baby 87’ and 89’ SF Giants. The 93’ team too

 

[Soldier]

2015 blue jays were dope
if david price's hoe ass doesnt choke we win it all

Lorenzo Cain running hard and fast from first base to score a run and give KC a 4-3 lead in the bottom of the 8th in Game 6 of 2015 ALCS in Kansas City will forever haunt me in my nightmares. We were so close to winning that game and forcing a game 7. I still hate that cac neckbeard who stole a legal jays homer away from the team, the home plate umpire who made a controversial strike call on Ben revere in the bottom of the 9th, etc

Dalton Pompey stole both second and third base and was 30 feet away from crossing home plate, tying the game and sending both teams to extra innings. So close. Too bad no hitter could hit a clutch RBI at the moment


Bautista hitting that clutch 2-run homer to tie the game in the top of the 8th.

David price was the starting pitcher in that game 6 too.





In game 2, with David price on the mound, we had a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the 7th inning but the royals made a furious comeback and took a 5-3 lead. Royals ultimately won the game 6-3, but the jays had two men on bases with Jose Bautista at the plate. I remember he hit a long fly ball deep in the right field that the Royals RF easily caught to win the game.

That 2015 royals team had speed all over their roster and they knew how to get on bases and manufacture runs. Situational offensive baseball. They relied more on contact hitting than power hitting . By comparison, 2015 jays lived and died by the homerun(long ball ). They were definitely more of a power hitting team. But we had probably the most dangerous and productive offense in the majors that year anyway despite our structural and tactical flaws.

 

[broller]

@broller

1992-93 Toronto Maple leafs are the best answer to the thread. I mean both Doug Gilmour and Wendel Clark are legends among most sports fans in this city, because of their strong performances thst season. People still give them the champion treatment.

Cliff Fletcher (the Leafs general manager at the time) just hired a new ( but experienced) head coach who had previous success with the Montreal Canadiens in the past 4 years ( Pat burns)
He brought accountability, defensive structure and discipline to the team
It was the Leafs first winning season in 15 years
Also it was their First conference final appearance in 15 years
They played three Epic seven game series against the Detroit Red Wings (in round 1), St.louis Blues (in round 2)and LA kings in round 3( in that series, Wayne Gretzky scored his famous hat trick in game 7 to send the kings to the finals against the Habs)
Leafs were one goal away from a meeting with the Montreal canadiens in the Stanley cup finals

Molstar/Molson communicationa even produced a VHS of the 1992-93 Leafswou playoff run highlights. Do you remember watching this ?


They brought back swagger and respect to the Maple Leafs brand. They brought back the old fans and created new generations of others.

I didn't watch that VHS and I wasn't watching hockey at that time. But when I learned about it, it was crazy to think how close to a Leafs Habs final was to actually being a modern day reality. The ratings in Canada would have been crazy. Of course Gary Bettman was happy LA made it

 

[feelsthecitybreathin]

2001/2018/2019 Sixers

2003/2004 Eagles

93/2009/2010 Phils

 

[feelosofer]

2002-2003 Nets.

Jim Harbaugh 49ers.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

On another note, I know it’s not related to the thread subject at hand, but I feel bad and Sad for you and other mavs fans, because you lost a top 10 player in luka and the mavericks season took a turn for the worse right after they traded him. It’s like all the bad luck came down to specifically curse your team. As a result, head coach Jason Kidd was forced to overplay Kyrie Irving to compensate for the absence of Luka. Result : he’s overworked, gets hurt and is done for the year, then AD/Gafford/Lively get all hurt at the same time….and AD is usually injury prone anyway.

I’m afraid that the mavericks brand in the city of Dallas is permanently damaged. I don’t know if the people there will emotionally invest in the team again. It’s hard for most Sports Teams to recover from moves like that. I guess among the many people in the fanbase, the trust and emotional attachment towards the team is gone for a while, if not forever. I mean, as a NBA fan, I want to see the product succeed in all markets.

Oh it's rough.

Folks my age remember when the Mavs were REALLY bad but a lot of the Gen Z/younger Millenial set, doesn't remember much before Dirk/Nash/Finley and Cuban. Mavs were the one team they could count on to be consistently good.

Of course the white fans damn near wanting to lynch Nico while have barely having ANY heat for ownership....little shady.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

That 06 michigan team was fukkin special

 

[tremonthustler1]

90s Knicks
99-01 Mets
01 Yankees
98 Jets
09-10 Jets

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

‘91 Braves

Pendleton
Gant
Justice
Avery












Lemke

 

[Po pimp]

2010-11 Bulls led by “why can’t I be MVP” Derrick Rose in only his third season. Best record in the league. Swept super team Miami in the regular season, but lost a close series in 5 to that same Heat team.

2006-07 Chicago Bears that lost in the Super Bowl, led by a great defense and rookie Devin Hester was going nuts with all those TD returns

1998 Chicago Cubs with rookie Kerry Wood throwing 20 strikeouts in a single game. Same season Steve Bartman interfered and the Cubs proceeded to choke the rest of that game and game 7, preventing them from going to the World Series

1994 Chicago White Sox in the strike season when Frank Thomas won MVP. Sox probably would’ve won it all that year.