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I'm watching the national championship game for college football right now, and my Buckeyes are getting humiliated. I knew they might lose this game, but they're going out like a bunch of bitches. It looks like they don't even deserve to be on the field. They were favored to win it too. Is there anything more depressing then watching your favorite team, regardless of the sport, go out and blow a big game like fools?
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Posted 09 January 2007 - 03:29 AM
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Posted 09 January 2007 - 03:34 AM
Well my team let me (and a few 1,000,000 other fans) down when Schumacher's engine blew up at Japan 2006...but...we couldn't even get mad cause it was the first time that happened in over 5 years *sigh* sad days...if only BAD were still around to share in my pain*tears*
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Posted 09 January 2007 - 03:44 AM
Raymond Luxury Yacht;149581 said:
I'm watching the national championship game for college football right now, and my Buckeyes are getting humiliated. I knew they might lose this game, but they're going out like a bunch of bitches. It looks like they don't even deserve to be on the field. They were favored to win it too. Is there anything more depressing then watching your favorite team, regardless of the sport, go out and blow a big game like fools?
I LIVE here Ray. I'm not watching the game, since I don't own a TV, and, except for the Michigan game, I really dislike football, but the ESPN live updates are bringing me to tears. We're doing terribly. I was sure we were going to win.
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Posted 09 January 2007 - 04:07 AM
It's a bummer when a favoured team loses but it doesn't really bother me. There's always next year.
Hell, I'm a Chicago Cubs fan. They haven't won the World Series since 1908.
1908!
Hell, I'm a Chicago Cubs fan. They haven't won the World Series since 1908.
1908!
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Posted 09 January 2007 - 05:01 AM
It could be worse: you could all be English. 
Although I do admit last years' second half surrender by the Bulldogs to the Boncos in the semi-final of the NRL did irk me somewhat. Never mind the State of Origin ...
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Although I do admit last years' second half surrender by the Bulldogs to the Boncos in the semi-final of the NRL did irk me somewhat. Never mind the State of Origin ...
Cheers,
La Sombra, 5-0
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Posted 09 January 2007 - 05:02 AM
*cries* We lost, lost so bad.
EDIT: Sombra, I feel better already. Thanks!
EDIT: Sombra, I feel better already. Thanks!
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Posted 09 January 2007 - 05:35 AM
January, 2004. World Junior Hockey Championships. Canada vs. USA. Gold Medal game. Tied 2-2 in the third period. Canadian goalie shoots the puck off his own player and back into the net. Canada loses.
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Posted 09 January 2007 - 08:07 AM
God, what an ass-kicking. It was making me feel sick, so I went to Olive Garden. The nice thing about being Ohio State is, no matter what happens for the entire year, if we beat Michigan it's a successful season. We overperformed just getting to the championship game. No one expected that to even happen at the beginning of the season.
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Posted 09 January 2007 - 09:20 AM
Watching England at anything is a perpetual let down. And watching Arsenal dominate the league a few years back then throw away a ridiculous lead to lose it to Man U right at the end. Also remember an inredibly annoying game where Spurs, our hated local rivals, were winning 3-0 at half-time against Man U, and we were winning also, which would have given us the title. The Spurs players went in for the break, found out the scores, came out and propmtly collapsed from dominating the game to being whipped 5-3. Convenient, eh?
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Posted 09 January 2007 - 09:28 AM
Hang on; we DID win the Ashes last time around (God knows how), and we won the Rugby World Cup a few years back as well. Sometimes England do throw a nice surprise our way
Apart from that though, the only thing worse than watching your team being whipped is BEING IN the team that's being whipped. Ouch.
Apart from that though, the only thing worse than watching your team being whipped is BEING IN the team that's being whipped. Ouch.
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Posted 09 January 2007 - 01:10 PM
RodeoRanch said:
Hell, I'm a Chicago Cubs fan. They haven't won the World Series since 1908.
1908!
1908!
Hey man, I'm sorry. I really am. You have my condolences...
Angels last won it in 2007...
Or at least I hope they do...
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Posted 09 January 2007 - 01:12 PM
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If I enjoyed the most boring sport in the world in anyway whatsoever, I would rise to that...
Well, second most boring, after curling. Which incidentally was the only thing a British team was good at. Then we failed at that too...
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Posted 09 January 2007 - 01:18 PM
If you understand the complexities of cricket, it's not boring.
So we lost the Twenty20 as well...let's just hope we can regain some national pride by beating up on New Zealand (which will be a tough ask).
England does have a tendency for being let down - we believe our media's hype too much. We have a tradition of it in Football, Rugby, Cricket and Tennis to name a few...COME ON TIM!
Sir Thursday
So we lost the Twenty20 as well...let's just hope we can regain some national pride by beating up on New Zealand (which will be a tough ask).
England does have a tendency for being let down - we believe our media's hype too much. We have a tradition of it in Football, Rugby, Cricket and Tennis to name a few...COME ON TIM!
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Posted 09 January 2007 - 03:02 PM
Tiste! Curling is awesome!
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Posted 09 January 2007 - 03:10 PM
You wanna talk depressing finishes, witness the closing minutes of the Dallas Cowboys' playoff game. Romo's botched hold on the field goal was a new level of choke.
OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.
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Posted 09 January 2007 - 03:20 PM
You want disappointment, I'll tell you about disappointment...
Up until my early 30s the West Indies hadn't lost a Test Series to England in my lifetime. Now, despite the presence in their team of the Cricketing God that is Brian Lara, they are one of the worst of the major cricketing nations. I remember the glory days of the 70s and 80s and early 90s when they were continually dropping a vat of whup ass on the world's other cricket teams.
Up until my early 30s the West Indies hadn't lost a Test Series to England in my lifetime. Now, despite the presence in their team of the Cricketing God that is Brian Lara, they are one of the worst of the major cricketing nations. I remember the glory days of the 70s and 80s and early 90s when they were continually dropping a vat of whup ass on the world's other cricket teams.
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Posted 09 January 2007 - 03:22 PM
stone monkey;149746 said:
You want disappointment, I'll tell you about disappointment...
Up until my early 30s the West Indies hadn't lost a Test Series to England in my lifetime. Now, despite the presence in their team of the Cricketing God that is Brian Lara, they are one of the worst of the major cricketing nations. I remember the glory days of the 70s and 80s and early 90s when they were continually dropping a vat of whup ass on the world's other cricket teams.
Up until my early 30s the West Indies hadn't lost a Test Series to England in my lifetime. Now, despite the presence in their team of the Cricketing God that is Brian Lara, they are one of the worst of the major cricketing nations. I remember the glory days of the 70s and 80s and early 90s when they were continually dropping a vat of whup ass on the world's other cricket teams.
They're making an ODI comeback at the moment though, thanks to the awesome talent that is Chris Gayle. When he fires, West Indies do well. A bit like Jayasuriya and Sri Lanka, really.
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Posted 09 January 2007 - 06:59 PM
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You wanna talk depressing finishes, witness the closing minutes of the Dallas Cowboys' playoff game. Romo's botched hold on the field goal was a new level of choke.
That would have been horrible to watch happen if it had been any team BUT the Cowboys. I feel bad for Romo, I like the guy, but that's what he gets for playing in Dallas. I wish the Cowboys ill every time they take the field, so I was quite happy to see that happen. Plus I live in Seattle now. For a Cowboys fan though, I can understand how painful that was to watch.
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