What 10 year stretch of results for your favorite sports team would you prefer? Being competitive the whole time (Playoffs) but never winning a championship or Being competitive for maybe 2 years with one championship ring and being below .500 the other 8 years. Edit: damn meant to include a poll....oh well
For this to be a real head scratcher, I think it has to be more extreme like one championship and 9 years of being the absolute worst team in the league. Like Astros these past two years but for NINE years. I don't know, championships are awesome but NINE years of my life following the team that is the butt of all jokes?
I'll be the contrarian. I watch sports for the entertainment value, but there is no entertainment value in a loser. Eventually only one team of 30 is going to be a winner anyway so I want to be entertained by being competitive over the course of the whole season, every year.
When your team is competitive but can't get over the hump, there's that doomed feeling that maybe you've peaked.
Depends on the sport. For football, I'll take 9 years of Texans suck for 1 Super Bowl win. For any other sport, I'll take a consistently good but not great team i.e. the Astros up until the past few years. Reason being basketball and baseball seasons are considerably longer and I have a hard time watching either of those sports without having an interest in whatever team is playing. Football I can pretty much watch regardless of who is playing.
Excellent example - I'd be surprised if you used this specifically instead of the generic idea, to see many people chose the Marlins.
Except we are talking about knowing ahead of time that your team will or will not win a championship in that time span. The Stros during that stretch frequently had the possibility of winning the championship but wasn't able to do it but at the time we didn't know that. How much fun is it if every year you knew your team while competitive wasn't going to win it all? I would rather take the possibility that this year my team could win it all, with the risk that they more likely will suck, than that they will do well while knowing they will fall short in the playoffs.
I don't think it's about knowing in advance - what's the fun of already knowing your team will win a championship next year? If you know the results beforehand, it seems to take ALL the excitement out of sports. I assumed the question was looking back, which would you have preferred as the results of your team.
I would rather see competitive games for 10 years. I am going to watch the rockets, astros, texans regardless. I can't just tune them out like most sports fans do when a team is bad.
I would still enjoy the season even if I knew for sure that my team was going to win the championship. Heck I still cheer rewatching highlights from the 1995 Rockets' playoff run. Anyway I was reading the question as if you knew that for ten years your team would be competitive but never win the championship versus ten years crappy but at lest two of those years they win, not knowing which two years they win. Maybe I read more into the question than was there.
