The Most Cursed Sports Cities Ranked: CLE #1 ATL #2

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SEASONS SINCE LAST TITLE:70

CHAMPIONSHIP SEASONS SINCE 1965:0.6%

CLOSE CALLS:9%

TOUGHEST LOSS:1981 N.F.C. divisional playoff, leading the Cowboys, 24-10, in the fourth quarter, at home.

Call it the Olympic Curse. Since the city hosted the 1996 Games — an Olympics marred by transportation problems and worse — it has not won any titles. Its last came nine months before the opening ceremony, when the Braves won the 1995 World Series. The various venues used for the Games have never been home to a championship team.

The Braves are known for making the playoffs for 14 straight seasons, starting in 1991, with one of the game's great pitching rotations, and finding various ways to lose in October. The Atlanta Hawks and the Falcons have never won a championship for Atlanta, despite a half-century of existence for each.

Keep in mind that an average city will have three times as many close calls (using our definition) as championships, because there are three losing semifinalists for every champion. Atlanta's ratio? A heartbreaking 14 to one.

Many Atlanta fans take some solace in caring more about college sports than pro sports. But it’s not as if Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia have been winning many titles lately, at least not in the sports with the largest fan followings. If LeBron James can bring a title to Cleveland, Atlanta becomes a candidate for the nation’s worst-suffering sports town.
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:mjlol: I know who Atlanta fans want to win the Finals now.
 
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5.Washington

Within a single hour on May 13 this year, the Capitals were eliminated in a Game 7 overtime, and the Wizards lost an important Game 5 at the buzzer. It was a fitting capstone to more than 20 years of Washington sports melancholy, dating to the Redskins’ last Super Bowl win, in 1992. In Washington, sports championships are a bit like VCRs: Unless you’re at least 30 years old, you probably don’t have first-hand experience with one.

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The Nationals' Bryce Harper after the 2012 N.L.D.S. against St. Louis. CreditGetty Images

The Capitals have come to be known as some of hockey’s most famous chokers, having blown three-games-to-one series leads five times. (Combined, the rest of the league has done so only 23 times.) The Wizards tend to avoid painful losses by being bad: They have wona mere three playoff series in the last 30 years.

And the Redskins, long the city’s marquee franchise? They may have the most oft-mocked team owner in professional sports. They have had only two winning seasons in the last eight. And many fans consider their team name to be a racist insult.

No wonder Washington fans have taken to the Nationals with such joy. The Nats have broken hearts by being upset in the playoffs in two of the last three seasons — and in brutal fashion in 2012 — yet they also have a real chance to win Washington a championship in the near future.
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infamous said:
:what: Houston, Cincy and Seattle don't belong on the list.
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Seattle belongs on that list off the strength off losing the Supersonics alone. That, the Mariners being consistently garbage and the Seahawks always being mediocre until Pete showed up justify it.

Houston also lost a team, except they got their's back. However, neither the Oilers or Texans ever even went to a Superbowl. :heh: Let's not even talk about those heartless Rockets.

I don't give a fukk enough about Cincinnati to justify them being on the list or not.
 
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SchoolboyC said:
Bengals haven't won a playoff game since 1990, Reds haven't won a playoff series since 1995
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Dawgs_bruh said:
Seattle belongs on that list off the strength off losing the Supersonics alone. That, the Mariners being consistently garbage and the Seahawks always being mediocre until Pete showed up justify it.

Houston also lost a team, except they got their's back. However, neither the Oilers or Texans ever even went to a Superbowl. :heh: Let's not even talk about those heartless Rockets.

I don't give a fukk enough about Cincinnati to justify them being on the list or not.
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AlbertPullhoez said:
Houston ain't won nada for the city since 95, Oilers stayed catching ether in the playoffs, Texans been ass majority of their existence, and the Rockets a team of soft nikkas
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All of those cities have a major sports championship in the past 25 years.
 
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